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Online Database The Field Guide to Dark Places (South Edition) was a key tool used to catalogue our research into sites not normally accessible to the public in the UK. The sites that were initially selected for documentation were selected on the basis that they were engaged with scientific or technological research,… Read more
Experimental Ruins Participatory Research for Experimental Ruins The twenty places of our Experimental Workshop were filled immediately. The aim was to introduce to participants questions around how our personalised knowledge of urban and rural landscapes is shaped. Probing how we might respond to new sites that might in turn inform… Read more
A One Day Field Guide to the Secrets of Portland (2011) This Bus Tour took in a number of sites around which rumours and conspiracy have helped shape the experience of Portland, an island situated off the coast at Weymouth. Home to military research, bird watching, prisons, and not least the… Read more
Secrecy and Technology Bus Tour (2009) On the final day of the exhibition Dark Places, at John Hansard Gallery, the Secrecy and Technology bus tour took place, exploring the Cold War’s legacy in the South. Neal White and Steve Rowell led the critical excursion, a performance -led, mediated experience meticulously planned with Lala Thorpe of Arts… Read more
Other Office of Experiments Publications
THE REDACTOR, was launched for ‘The Incidental Person’ at Apexart 2010 in New York. Antony Hudek on ‘The Incidental Person’. “The British artist John Latham (1921–2006) coined the expression the “Incidental Person” (IP) to qualify an individual who engages in non-art contexts – industry, politics, education – while avoiding… Read more
The Self-Experimenter – 2005 This publication was developed for the event ‘The Void’ at The Barbican Gallery, London, part of the ‘Colour After Klein’ exhibition in 2005. The full colour A2 folded sheet publication featured editorial, information on the exhibition ‘Le Vide’ by Yves Klein, data on methylene blue and… Read more