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

Jun Mitani
Jun Mitani

Jun Mitani

If the evidence of these photographs were not enough to demonstrate the staggering ingenuity expressed in Jun Mitani's works, the accompanying video shows just how exacting the process is. These forms defy almost everything we imagine about the materiality of paper. The sheer beauty of their execution and the structures needed to support them are baffling and intriguing. The resulting objects forever exist as questions about their own existence. What more engaging quality can an object have?

The Creators Project
"The penetrating odor of some country flowers could intoxicate, it was an inducement to sexual pleasures, as was suggested by the resemblence between the facial expressions of a woman when smelling a flower and when making love. According to some experts this ambiguous marriage between the woman and the flower she smelled could end in orgasm."
- Alain Corbin [on 18th C theories], 1986, Foul and Fragrant: Odour and the French Social Imagination