Continuing his interest in developing collaborative projects at the intersection of music, video and live performance, and through his ongoing project After/Hours/Drop/Box, John used his time at Open School East both to host events and to research new approaches to working in this area.

Popular public events such as AHDB: Charismatic Megafauna and the collaboratively organised Beyond Beyoncé: Use It Like a Bumper were specific outputs, as well as an ongoing moving-image project working with youth Carnival arts and dance group Tropical Isles, also based at the Rose Lipman building. During this time John also initiated Oh – an open-minded support structure for artists working across expanded approaches which is based on the independent record label model. John co-runs Oh with fellow artist Mat Jenner and its first release, the album Hg by Squares & Triangles, was released on vinyl in September.