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

Past the edges of expression.
Subbacultcha! and Pllant / Marieke van Helden

Past the edges of expression.

This uncanny series of animated renders presents us with material which is at once deeply familiar and unsettling. At the most basic level we register minute facial movements as communications we ignore to our cost. The amplification of these signs beyond the limits of human anatomy is fascinating and disturbing by turns. Interestingly, the most  alarming moments are those just at the edges of what is possible. The very point at which the human becomes inhuman disturbs more than the extravagantly monstrous.

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"I fear those who go through life drugged, less than I fear those under the edict of language."
- Michel Serres, 1985, The Five Senses