Office of Experiments is a critical art institution that was established in 2004. It has since been committed to developing and disseminating critical forms of art and knowledge evolved through experimentation, fieldwork and ‘undisciplined’ approaches. 

Weaving our way across infrastructures, cultural repositories, or landscapes that may situate knowledge we consider experimental, or anomalous to established academic or cultural practices, we have examined collections, private archives, sites of interest, in person, as well as testing digital resources and experimental approaches in the field. The methods we employ include documentation (audio, visual, sensory), situating artworks, writing in situ, developing digital tools, alongside producing public tours, exhibition displays, and co-creation of artist publications.

Over the last five years, Office of Experiments leads, John Beck and Neal White, have been undertaking fieldwork as artists and visiting scholars inside major Museums. They have been undertaking fieldwork across Kent, and working at London based Museums that includes; Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew; Natural History Museum and Royal Observatory – Greenwich Museums – London. Together- working with the lead curators, they went deep behind the scenes of the NASA art collections and conservation areas  at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. This practice will shape anomalous areas of interest that will form future projects by the Office of Experiments.