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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Love Is Lost
David Bowie

3/11/13

Love Is Lost

An engagingly "home-made" aesthetic perfectly suits this artisanal remix of Bowie's Love Is Lost. Chock full of references to earlier  musical works, earlier clips and the cinematic tropes of some of his heroes, it is a playfully dense little film shadowed with the rather desperate, low level hysteria that has crept into the artist's later songs. There is a definite convergence of mood, means and meaning which is at the heart of any really committed enterprise. Tony Orsler's signature face projection technique is, as always, oddly unsettling and acts as a perfect metaphor for the now perpetually fugitive phantom of Bowie's persona.  Perhaps the consequence of one too many identities, he now seems to occupy a kind of personal limbo.

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"Sleep is and irrational and intolerable affirmation that there might be limits to the compatibility of living things with the allegedly irresistible forces of modernisation."
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