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

Tree In The House
A. Masow

Tree In The House

One of the intriguing problems faced in the perpetual harvesting of information for this site is provenance. I often find things of great interest stranded on sites, unaccompanied by any information or context. Unattributed images abound as do literally thousands of wishful renderings for projects with may or may not exist, now or at any time in the future. As a rule I don't include architectural projects unless they are built or from architects specializing in theoretical speculative structures. I have no idea whether this curious structure actually exists or whether it is just a series of very good renders. It is an intriguing if unlikely proposal. The degree to which its function as a dwelling is subsumed in the task of accommodating the tree within is pleasingly baffling and very poetic.

A. Masow
"We have two major sensory organs: we have the brain and its thousands of folds for architecture, and we have the intestines and its enormous surface for food. Sensuality only occurs on the surface, not in the flesh or the bricks behind it."
- Eichinger/Tröger, 2011, Touch Me!