Neal White has been acquired by The Office of Experiments

A sneeze slowed down to a fraction of its original by a high-speed camera is used to explore the history of film as a representation of time through the structure of a book (Ott’s Sneeze – Bookwork Commission with author Lawrence Norfolk, 2001). Visitors to an exhibition don ‘Bunny suits’ in order to explore the experimental spaces of techno-science (Natural History Museum, 2003). A personal campaign on the streets of London to restore Jacob Epsteins’ Sculptures on the Strand creates a false archive now held by The Henry Moore Institute (HMI Commission, 2004-5). A re-enactment of Yves Klein’s 1958 private view ‘Le Vide’ turns the urine of the audience Klein blue for a week (National Institute for Medical Research residency - experienced at International 3, Barbican Gallery, Max-Planck Institute 2005-6). A full scale-space station is designed and built to explore alternative forms of research and living on earth (With N55, Space On Earth Station, Camden Roundhouse, 2006– see below).

These situations and placements in and around institutions and art practices led to the development of The Office of Experiments. This temporary self-instituted entity has recently set up in John Latham’s Flat Time House, Peckham. This office will react to and explore a common theme in ideas of time and event (evenometry) which John (no.it prof of flat time) and Neal White were exploring prior to his death, ideas of an event based theory of art. This is one instance of the proposed multiple de-centred existences for The Office of Experiments that aims to establish a series of temporary offices as experiments and event-structures in a range of contexts and situations.