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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Gehry's liquid monument
Architecture Chicago

19/06/13

Gehry's liquid monument

In designing this emphatically contrary series of glass elements as the reception desk of an iconic 50s skyscraper, Gehry has created tension between the buildings' uncompromising rectilinear forms and the dissolving, refractive disorder of his creation. While this is as likely to be tension as an end in itself: a characteristic piece of material bravado, it does propose an interesting historical dialog between the original foyer,  its intentions, and the fluxes of contemporary design and fabrication.

Architecture Chicago
"When I was running the French film school, I challenged the student sound engineers to re-create certain sounds and sonic atmospheres of the past. For example I asked them to create a soundtrack for Boileau's satirical poem 'Les Embarras de Paris'. I reminded them that the road surfaces were made of wood, the horse-drawn carriages had iron wheels, the houses were not as high, etc."
- Jean-Claude Carrière & Umberto Eco, 2011, This Is Not The End Of The Book