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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Vertical Glass House - Atelier FCJZ
Atelier FCJZ

Vertical Glass House - Atelier FCJZ

In a radical rotation of modernist orthodoxy, this rectilinear house moves transparency to the horizontal planes, enclosing the structure from the outside yet opening a vertical view from the base to the sky. The idea is so simple it is hard to imagine it has not been tried before yet the reality of occupying such a space would be genuinely confronting. In the same way that artists such as James Turrell and Richard Serra have eschewed the occularcentric preoccupation with perpetual horizontal views for the meditative and isolating privacy of a private sky, this house focuses the eye and the spirit inward and upward. A perfect scenario for temporary residence and thought.

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"Japanese music is above all a music of reticence, of atmosphere. When recorded, or amplified by a loudspeaker, the greater part of it's charm is lost. "
- Junichiro Tanizaki, 1977, In Praise Of Shadows