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

Cornelia Parker monograh
Thames & Hudson

4/07/13

Cornelia Parker monograh

This is a welcome, indeed long overdue survey of the work of one of the most interesting artists practicing today. Parker, while making pieces that are deeply conceptual, also manages to produce work which is utterly engaging in its own right. Even stripped of all explanation and context she can load the most prosaic objects with fascination, allure and fresh identity. Objects as prosaic as tea-trays, a man's suit or a coin become startling and magical in her hands. That one later learns of strange histories, arcane procedures and deep intentions serves only to enrich already compelling material. Parker forces us to rethink our relationship with matter, artifacts and situations by imbuing them with charged, loaded contradiction and paradox. Thorough, fully illustrated and accompanied by an excellent essay by Yoko Ono, this is an essential book for anyone interested in Parker's extraordinary work.

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"Essence of onion could never enjoy success as a perfume in the West although it does in Senegal and elsewhere in Africa."
- Classen, Howes & Synnott, 1994, Aroma: The Cultural History Of Smell