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

Sense Of Smell - Marcel Van Brakel, Wander Eikelboom, Frederik Duerinck

Sense Of Smell - Marcel Van Brakel, Wander Eikelboom, Frederik Duerinck

This collection of projects, articles and essays emerges from some pretty adventurous course-work in Breda. Centering around olfaction in all its many manifestations, the anthology covers experimental sensory work, art projects, commercial applications, historical critiques (a fascinating piece about little known Futurist preoccupations with smell) and current thinking about the science of smell. There is much here of interest, some of it available online but, all of it rendered more useful for being assembled into a single well designed volume. Essential reading for anyone interested in the edges of this vital part of our sensual lives.

The Eriskay Connection
"Nero, in turn, had pipes installed in his dining-room ceiling to sprinkle fragrant water on his guests, while a later emperor, Elagabulus, reputedly covered his guests with such an abundant floral shower that some of them suffocated."
- Classen, Howes & Synnott, 1994, Aroma: The Cultural History Of Smell