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

Lucid Stead
Steve King

Lucid Stead

This inspired transformation exploits its location to the maximum. The clever use of reflective material leaves the remaining elements "floating" within the perpetually changing landscape. A thoroughly engaging illusion made doubly compelling through the iconic shed form it employs. There are certain embedded shapes which the brain will struggle mightily to "protect" from disintegration The more confronting a paradox the more successful an illusion becomes. Even when we can clearly see the cause of this anomaly the mind still flips back and forth from the evidence of the mind to the evidence of the eyes.

Achinect
"In the opening chapter of Combray, Marcel Proust describes how the protagonist wakes up in his bed and gradually reconstructs his world on the basis of "the memory of the sides, knees and shoulders.""
- Juhani Pallasmaa, 1999, Hapticity and Time