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

Octo
Anthony Howe

Octo

A remarkably successful piece of wind-driven kintetic sculpture. Octo, like much of Howe's work produces very compelling illusions of form changing, organic movement quite apart from the evident articulations of its construction. The meticulous,  intricate design of Howe's pieces is intruguing in itself but his real strength is in animating forms which seem to defy the very material from which they are so evidently made. This kind of enrichment, in work already fascinating in its own right, is precisely what DTA argues for in the engagement of multiple senses.  Howe exploits far more than pure vision with this piece despite situating it beyond the practical reach of our other senses.

Anthony Howe
"The sensory aspects of the normal human being should be taken into consideration in all forms of design. Let's take the Coca-Cola bottle for instance. Even when wet and cold, it's twin- sphered body offers a delightful valley for the friendly fold of one's hand, a feel that is cozy and luscious."
- Raymond Loewy, 1951, Never leave Well Enough Alone