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.

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Falling Back To Earth
Cai Guo-Qiang

11/12/13

Falling Back To Earth

An otherworldly conference of animal species locked in a moment of singular purpose and apparent harmony. Under the fizz of an impossible sky, this arresting vision by the near ubiquitous Cai Guo-Qiang sits, now permanently, in the Queensland Art Gallery, forever proposing a utopian vision of species at peace. One could imagine this clinical apparition as one of the final scenes of Kubrick's 2001. The feeling of its being an alien zoo, which the visitor enters as participating exhibit is hard to shake. The sheer scale and finish now available to artists of Guo-Qiang's status and affluence increasingly enables manifest visions which boarder on engulfing the viewer. Sometimes the scale is matched in ambition by the ideas which drive them. 

QAGOMA
"Neither acidic nor astringent, sentences refrain from awakening our tongue to anything but themselves. Sapidity slumbers beneath the narcosis of speech. Frozen; frigid."
- Michel Serres, 1985, The Five Senses