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.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

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Onion Skin
Olivier Ratsi

7/11/13

Onion Skin

Olivier Ratsi's installation work uses three dimensional constructs plus elaborate computer modeling to create multiple illusion of depth, speed, and spacial change from the fixed viewpoint of the spectators. These devices produce multiple, superimposed puzzles for the eye to decode. A great deal of our engagement with built space is reflexive and unconscious, installations such as this force us to think about the way we use and design spaces in a vivid and refreshing way. There is an inelegance behind this piece which goes beyond producing more engaging eye-candy.

Vimeo
"The sensory aspects of the normal human being should be taken into consideration in all forms of design. Let's take the Coca-Cola bottle for instance. Even when wet and cold, it's twin- sphered body offers a delightful valley for the friendly fold of one's hand, a feel that is cozy and luscious."
- Raymond Loewy, 1951, Never leave Well Enough Alone