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

Skinned
Corneel de Wilde

Skinned

Amsterdam studio Knol are harvesting local architectural surfaces using latex casts. These "skins", whilst being super accurate documents of the surface detail in every case also present a highly charged transformation of the identity of exterior surfaces. Draped and translucent, the casts behave like morbid relics of some unsettling and predatory surgical procedure. They reference the body, the act of clothing, the minute pollutions of grit and dust. In some ways these casts bridge a significant disconnect between the built and the body which we maintain for no good reason.

Knol
"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. "
- Italo Calvino, 1972, invisible Cities