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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Memory Wound - Utøya memorial by Jonas Dahlberg Studio
Jonas Dahlberg Studio

Memory Wound - Utøya memorial by Jonas Dahlberg Studio

Memorializing something as shocking as the massacre on the island of Utøya is a near impossible task especially for the victims of the event. When the victim is, in effect, ultimately an entire country, the possibility of arriving at a solution unclouded by rage, the need for revenge or the outpouring of raw sentiment is remote. This proposal is striking in its profundity, in its serene disconnection from ugly ideologies, from attempts to lay blame with the "other". By depicting the consequences of the act so eloquently while allowing no foothold for partisan ownership of the memory, the design honestly witnesses the unbearable loss on that day.

The Verge
"Over the last two decades, a growing range of emotional states have been incrementally pathologized in order to create vast new markets for previously unneeded products. The fluctuating textures of human affect and emotion that are only imprecisely suggested by the notions of shyness, anxiety, variable sexual desire, distraction or sadness, have been falsely converted into medical disorders to be targeted by hugely profitable drugs."
- Johnathan Crary, 2013, 24/7 Late Captialism And The Ends Of Sleep4/7 Late Captialism And The Ends Of Sleep