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

a creative resource to provoke and inspire

The Multisensory Museum - Nina Levent & Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Rowman & Littelfield

The Multisensory Museum - Nina Levent & Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Combining recent neurological findings, curatorial innovations and psychological insights the essays collected here focus on the potential within the museum experience to effectively provide richly multisensory information. Paying particular note of the experience of the visually or mobility impaired the book examines many common shortcomings in our contemporary use of museum spaces and contrasts these with historical accounts in which, for example, visitors were emphatically encouraged to touch and handle exhibits.  While there is no doubt the museum experience is an actively developing realm, the contributions here greatly amplify the divide between the familiar territory we occupy in most institutions and the huge possibilities opened up by a more sesorially generous approach to the extraordinary resources housed within our museums.

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"Things rich in colour run out, dry up, While things that are bland grow gradually richer."
- Sikong Tu, 1981