The Office of Experiments

THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENTS

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND

FACILITIES

THE TEMOPRARY DEPARTMENT OF EVENOMETRY

LETS EXPERIMENT WITH OURSELVES

TEMPORARY STRUCTURES

PRINCIPLES & ARTICLES

CONTACT

LINKS

LETS EXPERIMENT WITH OURSELVES

Self-Experimentation is a dark method. It is often denied by the scientific community despite its pivotal role to clinical advances, whilst being recognised as a valid, if limited, method in the arts. It is after all the act of the radical, the act of a potentially totally independent individual, with an irresponsible approach to knowledge production, or a true respect for the nature of risk. As such, it is of great interest, philosophically and methodologically to The Office of Experiments within a broader context of resistance.

Self -Experimentation has already been initiated, with The Office of Experiments organising - The Void, and recently, Truth Serum (more to follow on this on the new updated site soon).

The Void was developed in the context of the National Institute for Medical Research, and involved volunteers absorbing a limited edition artwork at their own risk. The effect, intense blue urine for the participant a number of days, was based on the famous goings on during the vernissage at Yves Kleins 1958 exhibition 'Le Vide'. A special limited edition publication based on Yves Kleins own paper - The Self Experimenter, was printed for the event held at Barbican Gallery - part of 'Colour After Klein' .

The project was developed and a key note for The Office of Experiments was given by Neal White at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin in 2006 in a workshop on Self-Rapport. The Max Planck Institute with The Office of Experiments, has a pre-print publication on the subject of Self-Rapport taken from this event, edited by Katrin Soldhju, and available to download or order - Self-Rapport

Contributors:
Annette Bitsch, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Mark Butler, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Luciana Caliman, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin;
and Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Jürgen Daiber, Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft, Institut
für Germanistik, Universität Regensburg.
Nicolas Langlitz, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Honza Samotar, unknown
Katrin Solhdju, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Neal White, The Office of Experiments , London

The Void took place at:

International3 -Sensory Clinic, Manchester.
Barbican Gallery- Colour After Klein, London.
Bar - with Max Planck Institute, Berlin.
Sherborne House - Colour and Chemistry, Dorset.

For more see; The Ethics of The Void, Contemporary Magazine, Edition 81. 2006.

Edition 1 of The Self-Experimenter.

The VOID, with Max Planck Institute at BAR, Berlin 2006.

Field sample - an anonymous but welcome contribution to experiment data set.

	THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENTS
INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND FACILITIES THE TEMOPRARY DEPARTMENT OF EVENOMETRY LETS EXPERIMENT WITH OURSELVES TEMPORARY STRUCTURES PRINCIPLES & ARTICLES CONTACT LINKS	LETS EXPERIMENT WITH OURSELVES Self-Experimentation is a dark method. It is often denied by the scientific community despite its pivotal role to clinical advances, whilst being recognised as a valid, if limited, method in the arts. It is after all the act of the radical, the act of a potentially totally independent individual, with an irresponsible approach to knowledge production, or a true respect for the nature of risk. As such, it is of great interest, philosophically and methodologically to The Office of Experiments within a broader context of resistance. Self -Experimentation has already been initiated, with The Office of Experiments organising - The Void, and recently, Truth Serum (more to follow on this on the new updated site soon). The Void was developed in the context of the National Institute for Medical Research, and involved volunteers absorbing a limited edition artwork at their own risk. The effect, intense blue urine for the participant a number of days, was based on the famous goings on during the vernissage at Yves Kleins 1958 exhibition 'Le Vide'. A special limited edition publication based on Yves Kleins own paper - The Self Experimenter, was printed for the event held at Barbican Gallery - part of 'Colour After Klein' . The project was developed and a key note for The Office of Experiments was given by Neal White at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin in 2006 in a workshop on Self-Rapport. The Max Planck Institute with The Office of Experiments, has a pre-print publication on the subject of Self-Rapport taken from this event, edited by Katrin Soldhju, and available to download or order - Self-Rapport Contributors: Annette Bitsch, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Mark Butler, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Luciana Caliman, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; and Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Jürgen Daiber, Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Regensburg. Nicolas Langlitz, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley Honza Samotar, unknown Katrin Solhdju, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Neal White, The Office of Experiments , London The Void took place at: International3 -Sensory Clinic, Manchester. Barbican Gallery- Colour After Klein, London. Bar - with Max Planck Institute, Berlin. Sherborne House - Colour and Chemistry, Dorset. For more see; The Ethics of The Void, Contemporary Magazine, Edition 81. 2006.	Edition 1 of The Self-Experimenter. The VOID, with Max Planck Institute at BAR, Berlin 2006. Field sample - an anonymous but welcome contribution to experiment data set.