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

Pendular Movement - Felippe Moraes - Baró Galeria in São Paulo
Felippe Moraes

Pendular Movement - Felippe Moraes - Baró Galeria in São Paulo

In the areas where the arts and sciences meet and overlap there is a good deal of spurious concillience. Using a form or a number system lifted from an unrelated branch of science or observation to give supposed meaning to an otherwise vapid artwork is an old trick and it never quite works. These pieces however work perfectly because they actually employ the forces and phenomena they reveal to create the revelation. In a finely resolved series of elegant mechanisms Moraes, like a composer using chance as a tool, sets in motion the tools which will reveal one phenomena whilst creating another. There is something hugely satisfying about this "contract" through which both physics and artist are seen. The act of revealing the physical forces at work here is as much creative performance as the by products are artworks.

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"In Australia an 'autoplay' feature has been incorporated into slot machines to serve the 'mature' player who has moved beyond control to pure automaticity, and experiences himself as part of the machine. Such desubjectification does look a bit like death."
- Matthew Crawford, 2015, The World Beyond Your Head