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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More Twigs!
Jesse Kanda

1/09/13

More Twigs!

Another of Jesse Kanda's brilliant videos for the equally brilliant FKA Twigs. Some seriously sensuous algorithms dissolving a drifting body through varying material states from cloth to rubber to billowing empty flesh.  A strangely beautiful and unsettling series of transformations which, because they deal with the very skin which clothes us are viscerally affecting. 

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"In the culture of the Dogon people of Mali, for example, odour and sound are considered to be fundamentally alike because they both travel on air. The Dogon will therefore speak of "hearing" a smell. Furthermore speech is said to have a odour. "
- Classen, Howes & Synnott, 1994, Aroma: The Cultural History Of Smell