Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

a creative resource to provoke and inspire

Interior weather systems
Mercedes

Interior weather systems

Mercedes have created a 34 meter tornado inside one of their buildings. A consequence of ingenious engineering to evacuate smoke in the event of a fire, this spectacle enables us to see air movement in an unexpected context.

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"The speed of light is nearly 300 million meters per second. The speed of sound in air is 343 meters per second. The air currents carrying cigar smoke in an indoor room are likely to be moving at well under 1 meter per second."
- John M. Henshaw, 2012, A Tour Of The Senses