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

Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
Ryoji Ikeda

Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern

This installation, perhaps more than his previous works places the human observer at the core of Ikeda's ruthlessly precise and "inhuman" constructs. The pace of data, of information flow across digital landscapes made visible, flickers and hums while the audience is made to look, and ultimately become, stationary in response. The environment moves between inspiring awe and crushing oppressiveness depending on one's thoughts about the consequences of such torrential information. Whatever your reaction the vividness of the experience is undeniable.

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"Nothing more would have been wanting, in order to have taken a man's character, but to have taken a chair and gone softly, as you would a dioptrical bee-hive, and looked in, - viewed the soul stark naked;...then taken your pen and ink and set down nothing but what you had just seen, and could have sworn to."
- Lawrence Sterne, 1759-67, Tristram Shandy