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

Re-imagining the built.
Daihei Shibata

Re-imagining the built.

This idea, the mirroring of an image (moving or still) reappears in art, often prompted by enabling technology, regularly. As a device it can produce images which are irresistibly mesmerizing. Sometimes the device can also liberate information from an otherwise obscuring context. This deceptively simple video, the record of a train journey from Shinosaka to Tokyo, by the device of video mirroring, radically transforms the very essence of the landscape. By removing the ground from the entire journey, Shibata has revealed a world of drifting forms, pulsing and vanishing into an invisible horizon. New and unimagined structures bloom and flourish, unmoored by gravity or physics. A whole new typology of landscape emerges through the simplest and most ingenious of tricks.

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"Nothing is in the intellect that is not first in the senses."
- Gabriel François Rouelle, 18thC