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.

The World Beyond Your Head - Matthew Crawford -

The World Beyond Your Head - Matthew Crawford -

While this may at first seem a puzzling inclusion on DTA, it is, despite ranging freely through philosophical and political enquiry, a book concerned with our direct experience of the world. The author argues very elegantly for a resumption of physical engagement in actions which are increasingly disembodied. Not only is the finite resource of our attention being fought over with increasing ferocity but the sensory links between ourselves and the environment upon which we act are becoming dangerously abstracted. This dilemma goes right to the heart of what DTA was established to explore. The section of the book dealing with the links between autistic behavior and the retreat into worlds of virtual order over which we feel we have unchallenged control is especially chilling. Crawford demonstrates just how little choice we actually retain when we manufacture illusions of absolute agency.