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

Using bees to diagnose disease - Susana Soares
Susana Soares

Using bees to diagnose disease - Susana Soares

In a poetic fusion of craft, entomology and diagnostics Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a blown glass vessel in which the hyper-acute sensitivity of bees to minute indications of certain diseases may be observed. The bees will move from one chamber to the other in response to the presence of diseased cells in the breath of the user. There is something wonderfully arcane, even alchemical about this idea. That such a readily available indicator might be more sensitive and effective than state of the art spectrography is oddly satisfying.

Dark Silence in Suburbia
"Privacy and integrity of thought are impossible in the streets at the centre of Italian towns, but the residential squares of London, though they look something like piazzas, deliberately strive for the illusion of privacy in a public space. "
- Robert Harbison, 1977, Eccentric Spaces