THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENTS
TEMPORARY STRUCTURES
The Office of Experiments interest in temporary structures is related to micro-practices of control, and to create space between institutions and context. It is difficult to monitor and legislate over temporary structures. As administration increasingly occupies permanent institutional space, it is critical that the artist resists through experimentation without the micro-practices of control. Administration of space and event all too often arrests development, identifies risk as too risky, and standardises behaviour.
Recent
With Danish architectural group N55, SPACE ON EARTH STATION explored the use of space in contrast with convential use, in terms of scientific research as a top-down activity. The Office of Experiments was itself established as a result of this project, and experiments were made in order to imagine how alternative strategies might take place for research, living and society, and to develop a strategy to transfer this knowledge, outside of the standard and normative systems.
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The Office of Experiments at The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI)
The Office of Experiments has been invited to carry on its research in the area of temporary structures using its 'mobile studio' at the 'remote location' in Utah, USA in 2008. This site was first purchased by Robert Smithson, and both site and owner will provide a context for this work. This project will represent The Office of Experiments at CLUI.
AIRDROP Mobile Studio.
Designed to be made from the excess packaging used in aid-relief drops, it is intended for use in areas of conflict, extreme climatic crisis or remote locations. Originally proposed for use by war artists for the Imperial War Museum, London. To be deployed at the remote location at the Centre for Land Use Interpretation in Utah, 2008.
SPACE ON EARTH STATION - with N55. Marcus Ahlers during a solar-energy workshop at SOES, London 2006.More images - Flickr
