News - Talks and Publications,

The Office of Experiments and Truth Serum - The Psychopharmacology of Truthfulness. by Dr. Nicolas Langlitz Following the persecution of co-exhibitor and artist Steve Kurtz of CAE in the US, the essay is an account of the history and use of 'truth serums' by the CIA and FBI. Catalogue published by John Moores and The University of Chicago. 2008

Joint Paper - Notes on the Psychopharmacology of Truthfulness - FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) , Liverpool. With Dr Nicolas Langlitz - Max-Planck Institute, Berlin.
09.01.08

Archive and Event - Reflections on working in Archives, Artist Placement Group and ongoing research at Flat Time House. The Archival Impulse. Tate Britain. 15.11.07

Inside the Archive - Inside the Museum ~ Educational Artist Seminar - Series ~ Tate Modern / Tate Britain. 22.11.07

Recent Lectures - Universities

GRADCAM - Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media - Dublin - Nov 08

ICFAR - International Centre for Fine Art Research. University of London. Nov 08

Notting Trent University - June 08

University of Brighton - May 08

Camberwell School of Arts. February 08.

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Limitations Permitted.
Peckham Space - June 2009.

The OOE Kiosk is on Peckham Square 21-28th June. Inside the Kiosk interpretive materials are provided by the Office of Experiments; 'A Field Guide to Unpermitted Events' edited by Marsha Bradfield and Neal White provides the new observer with a step by step guide to public space fieldwork, enhanced by a distorting optical periscope made by John Hill. Meanwhile Manu Luksch and FLIX present a custom made 3D Video Viewmaster with 18 x 1 minute films outlining specific bye-laws communicated in sign language. Embedding the apparatus, codes and rules of behaviours back into the space itself, each element re-interprets restrictive local by-laws to embrace a positive engagement with a local community that frequents what is considered by some as one of the most contraversial public spaces in the UK. An Offsite Commission with Manu Luksch. Peckham Space. Peckham, London.

IDS. VOIDS iexhibition at Pompidou

Publication: Catalogue;
VOIDS; A Retrospective - Pompidou Centre, Paris / Kunsthalle, Bern,

"At once the support and an extension of the event, this publication outlines the concept of the void in art, aesthetics, philosophy, religion, science, popular culture, architecture, and music, and broaches the subject of nothing, of vacuity, of the invisible and the ineffable, of rejection and destruction."

I was invited to submitted an artist contribution for the catalogue, so filed a field report on behalf of The Office of Experiments from the F-Utility unit in Utah. Entitled: F-UTILITY at the Heart of the American Void.

Edited by John Armleder, Mathieu Copeland, Laurent Le Bon, Gustav Metzger, Mai-Thu Perret, Clive Phillpot, Philippe Pirotte
ISBN: 978-3-03764-017-3

Publication link.

The Centre for Land Use Interpretation
RESIDENCY / Ongoing Research.2008..

I undertook an enormously rewarding, intense and demanding residency for The Office of Experiments at the Centre for Land Use Interpretation at their Wendover base in Utah, USA, in Spring and Summer 2008. This field research was largely based around the F-Utility project (Field Utility Unit - see above/left), but will also lead to a number of works that are still under development. These works include a solitary performance and filmwork by Randy (sometime cipher of OOE) connecting the work and ideas of John Latham and Robert Smithson. This was shot in 'the remote location', the first piece of land acquired by Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt in Utah, near to both spiral jetty and the sun tunnels.

The research and residency has been funded by The Henry Moore Foundation, IPE Bournemouth University and Centre for Land Use Interpretation. CLUI weblink

DARK PLACES
CO CURATED EXHIBITION, at John Hansard Gallery with Arts Catalyst and SCAN. November 2009.

In this ongoing project, I am co-curating an exhibition that explores how an atmosphere of paranoia is suffused into the critical engagegment of the techno-scientific complex. At the heart of the exhibition lies a database that is being created by The Office of Experiments. Working with Steve Rowell (CLUI) in the field, and supported by Lisa Haskell (technical developer) and Claudia Vieira (researcher), we are actively documenting spaces through 'overt' techniques. To probe places in which knowledge as intelligence, research or experimentation / testing occurs entails an extensive piece of experimental fieldwork, and we are both open to and under scrutiny from the culture we are observing and examining. Supported from an Office of Experiments facility in the UCL Department of Geography, where we are artists in residence.

 

John Latham and Flat Time House - NOIT SCHOOL
EMBEDDED RESEARCH

Flat Time House

The Office of Experiments has a workspace to the rear of John Lathams Flat Time House. I am very proud to have enjoyed John Latham's support of my work, and prior to his passing in 2006, was devising with John the unrealised event 'The Wager'. An evening based on this idea will finally take place on the 11th July 2009. I continue to support the archive and am actively involved in informal developments of the house. This includes founding of the NOIT School, a pedagogic experiment devised with Anthony Hudek (John Latham Archive) and Elisa Kay (Curator) that will examine and disperse the legacy of John Latham and his ideas in many forms. More to follow on this over the next year,

TRUTH SERUM
GROUP EXHIBITION - Casino Foundation for Contemporary Art, Luxembourg. September 2009.

As part of the exhibition 'sk-interfaces', this project was developed as a gallery installation, and off-site performance with The Office of Experiments. Devised and researched by Neal White / Dr. Nicolas Langlitz in 2007-8 and exhibited formerly at FACT, Liverpool January - April 2008. Work will feature in the forthcoming publication on The Body and Contemporary Art by Sally O'Reilly for Thames and Hudson Twentieth Century Art Series. Commissioned by Arts Catalyst. Details

O+I

As a member of O+I (formerly Artist Placement Group) I have been undertaking research and submitted bids with Tate Archives to further explore and disseminate materials in the APG Archive. The APG Archive was acquired by Tate in 2004. Ongoing research suported by O+I, Bournemouth University, Critical Practice at Chelsea College of Art and Tate Archives. Images are taken from a 'between' (a format developed by APG) and developed as an output with Critical Practice that took over South London Gallery to discuss Art and Economics. 2007.

Above: Kunst als Sozlale Strategle (Art as Social Strategy) . 1977, Bonn Kunstverein. Podium discussion between German government ministers and APG artists. Uk artists make proposals to ministersw to adopt artists in their governemnt as done in the UK. Below. At SLG 2007.

Useful chronology of APG at Tate weblink
Critical Practice Chelsea weblink