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

Transfinite
Rioji Ikeda

Transfinite

This fixed position video of Ikeda's Transfinite installation at the New York Armory in 2011 gives some sense of the immersive, physiological impact of the art's recent works. Pitching both sound a vision at the edges of perceptive range, Ikeda compels a highly focused level of attention from an audience. The speed, pitch and precision of information pushes participants to acute states of involvement. Such intensity is unfamiliar and rarely experienced in a dedicated environment. The work provokes thoughts about how and what we sense: do we subliminally edit experiences which challenge us?

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"The problem of not understanding the mechanism of smell is compounded by a language problem ... We use the same language (odour, scent, smell) to describe both the stimuli and the sensation of olfaction."
- John M. Henshaw, 2012, A Tour Of The Senses