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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It Ends Here - Martin Firrell - Waterloo Vaults
Martin Firrell

It Ends Here - Martin Firrell - Waterloo Vaults

Public artist Martin Firrell mines the popular cultural phenomena which is the Planet Of The Apes saga (in particular the imminent Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes with its themes of human behavior and our propensity to self sabotage) in this new installation. Lurking in the tunneled darkness beneath Waterloo station, text and sound articulate ideas thrown up by the meta texts of Sci-Fi and released into the popular imagination. Firrell contends that genre frees writers to explore the cultural psyche unconstrained by the limitations of more formal enquiry, free to dabble in mankind's darkest hopes and fears. In choosing the visceral environment of the vaults, Firrell deploys myriad associations acting on the mind of the visitor in a deeply resonant way. This combined with his carefully judged interventions guarantees a thought provoking encounter with our own reactions. Thursday the 10th -Sat the 12th of July, 4pm - 10pm.

It Ends Here
"What lies within the darkness one cannot distinguish, but the palm senses the gentle movement of the liquid, vapour rises from within forming droplets on the rim, and the fragrance carried upon the vapour brings a delicate anticipation."
- Junichiro Tanizaki, 1977, In Praise Of Shadows