This article provides a new take on the possibilities – and limits – of experimental collaborations for ethnographic research and how they might lead to shifts back in the disciplinary core. By showing how art exhibitions can be used for knowledge-making, it expands the notion of field and fieldwork. The series of ethnographic experiments outlined here help us rethink and, eventually, unlearn our own tools and protocols of relevance in anthropology. Unlearning, however, is not what researchers are supposed to do in the field. Too-often boundary-work removes what gives rise to wonder in order to secure what counts as valid knowledge and by whom. A more inclusive take on fieldwork could benefit practitioners and the discipline itself, as anthropologists are seeking to reach wider publics and navigate the contemporary complexities of authority and representation.