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

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Subliminal Transcription light installation - Yael Erel - Ressellaer Polytechnic Institute Architect
Yael Erel

Subliminal Transcription light installation - Yael Erel - Ressellaer Polytechnic Institute Architect

Yael Erel's research project on the reflective characteristics of surfaces has produced an impressive body of documents which, while being seductively beautiful, are also deeply thought provoking. The behavior of light will always be a source of constant fascination but in this instance it is what is revealed about apparently featureless surfaces and consequently the shortcomings in our vision that is really interesting. As we move further and further away from haptic interaction with the world around us, we rely unreasonably upon the incomplete evidence of our eyes for "touch". This project reveals a dimension of disruptive detail coexisting amidst the apparently sheer surfaces of which we are so fond.

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"The preconcious perceptual realm, which is experienced outside the sphere of focused vision, seems to be just as important existentially as the focused image. In fact, there is medical evidence that peripheral vision has a higher priority in our perceptual and mental system."
- Juhani Pallasmaa, 1996, The Eyes of the Skin