THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENTS

The Office of Experiments is committed to research and experimentation in artist archives, research institutions and fields such as cultural geography. The research leads to experiments that are manifested as time based projects in media, as temporary physical interventions and spatial structures. The aim is to turn 'sites of excavation into sites of construction'1, transforming closed non-sites of knowledge into open, visible, critical spaces of social and artistic enquiry.

The Office of Experiments works with a range of innovating individuals and organisations that have given rise to extraordinary practices and knowledge. Recently these include: John Latham and Flat Time House, The Centre for Land Use Interpretation, Barbara Steveni, Steve Rowell, N55, Max-Planck Institute, Dr.Nicolas Langlitz, Sue Breakell, Neil Cummings, Jens Hauser, Simon Gould, Jim Wood, Katrin Soldhju and Lawrence Norfolk.

The Office of Experiments currently works on projects with the help of: The Latham Estate, O+I (formerly Artist Placement Group), The Arts Catalyst, Tate Archives, The Henry Moore Foundation, Camberwell Offsite Projects, The Arts Catalyst, John Hansard Gallery, Chelsea College of Art (Critical Practice / ICFAR) Bournemouth University and FACT.

We thanks all the individuals who support this work from within such institutions.

1.Taken from The Archival Impulse by Hal Foster, dealing with artists who work in archives, with concepts of entropy in new forms and which draws upon Thomas Hirschorns statement that highlights the critical need to 'connect what cannot be connected'.