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VISUAL ART:THE CURRENT SHOW in the Project Arts Centre gallery space offers you a chance not just to see an exhibition but also to take part in an experiment. Perhaps it’s the influence of the Science Gallery’s modus operandi, which usually entails a high level of interaction for the visitor. (The science gallery has been nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award). The current show, Love Lab: The Science of Desire(running until March 12), requires you to fill in a consent form and incorporates participation in a research project that will generate publishable results – so long as you are aged 15 or older.

You don’t have to sign anything to get into The Aion Experimentsat the Project, but those attending are requested to be prepared “physically and mentally”, given that the gallery “will be charged with biofield energy”. What, one might ask, is biofield energy and what is the nature of an Aion experiment? There are several artists involved in the show, which was organised by Pádraic E Moore, a writer and also a notably industrious and inventive curator – he recently oversaw the tribute to underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, An Invocation of My Demon Brotherat the IFI, as part of film festival. As that suggests, Moore, who is still in his 20s, is drawn to the alternative and unorthodox.