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

Suicide Machine
Thijs Rijkers

Suicide Machine

This amazingly tactile, rather tense film depicts a machine which, by it's own movements is progressively destroying itself. As sand is slowly poured into the open gears the whole thing will gradually seize up and cease to work. There is something really quite disturbing about the total inevitability of this, particularly when the destruction is being carried out in such a tidy and methodical way. The metaphors are endless!

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"Film, like literature, has a 'noble' language that is intentionally lofty and pompous, an ordinary, banal language and even a slang. It is also the case that, as Proust said of the great authors, great film-makers at least partly invent their own language."
- Jean-Claude Carrière & Umberto Eco, 2011, This Is Not The End Of The Book