PARANOID MEDITATION, Brussels

>>PARANOID MEDITATION<< 

29/02/2024

The Non-Singularity Performance Series is a program of performances exploring the universe as a non-singular entity. Held within the distinctive architecture of the 4th Space Meditation Centre, designed to facilitate immersive experiences and applied modes of attention, the series offers a unique platform for contemplation. The next performance, 'Paranoid Meditation,' is a guided listening session from the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly). This piece promulgates political signals, homoerotic imaginaries, and cryptic dog whistles embedded in the built environment. The piece combines story telling with live modular and synthetic sound accompaniment created specially for the performance. The thematic resonance of 'Paranoid Meditation' with the futuristic, monolithic architecture of the 4th Space Meditation Centre amplifies its exploration of the intersection between architectonic enquiry and existential inquiry. Both the centre and the series are produced and curated by artist and philosopher Dome wood. Reservation is required. A voluntary donation is kindly asked at the door. The performance will start 15 minutes into each time slot. Late arrivals will not be allowed to enter. 

4th Space Meditation Centre                    Reservation necessary                            

Rue des Palais 269                                   29 February

Brussels B-1000

Belgium

https://4thspacemeditation.com/

Image: O.J.A.I. portrait by Dorje de Burgh (2024)

A.PASS CLEARANCE SALE, Brussels

 

>>A.PASS CLEARANCE SALE<< 

18/11/2023

A.pass, the autonomous Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies program, is entering a period of reevaluation, reimagination, and ultimately restructuring. As part of this process, the institution is liquidating an overwhelming abundance of materials accumulated over the last nineteen years. Items available for purchase include furniture, fixtures, lighting, art, office supplies, props, cables, electronics, artifacts, curiosities, catering supplies, mystery materials—not to forget the dance floor—and much more. The sale will take the form of an auction conducted by a.pass alumnus Gary Farrelly. All proceeds from the liquidation will be donated to aid relief efforts in Gaza. The Cultural Emergency Fund of the HOPE foundation offers many local artists and teachers the opportunity to support children who are suffering the consequences of war and destruction. More info: HOPE foundation.

a.pass                                       doors open                             

Delaunoystraat 58-60              9 December

Molenbeek                               11:00

Brussels

Belgium

https://apass.be/ 

Image: The Depository Cat/ workshop element (2021), photo a.pass

OPENING JESTER, Genk

 

>>OPENING JESTER<< 

18/11/2023

In November, Jester, the new organisation born out of the merger of CIAP platform for contemporary arts and FLACC artist residency, is moving to a new, specially constructed complex of buildings at the C-mine campus in Genk. The grand opening features a program of artist interventions, including a special performance by the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, exploring the relationship between hero-worship and practices of place naming. Throughout the weekend, visitors can explore the site, meet the artists, enjoy the program, and partake in refreshments. The weekend closes with a Jester Film series. Other artists involved in the event are AMOS, Annelien Vermeir, Didianne Leusink & Judith Reijnders, Francesca Hawker, Ingel Vaikla, Jorn Plucieniczak, Laura Eva Meuris, Silke Gerinckx, Slow Reading Club, Susobrino, Toon Fibbe, Yan Xing, and Zaiyun Huang. Supported by: The Flemish Government and the City of Genk.

Jester                                       O.J.A.I. performance                             

Schachtbloklaan 10.                18 November

C-mine.                                    17:30

Genk 3600

Belgium

https://www.jester.be/en/agenda/opening-jester (for full program)

Image: Official summit portrait in Chisinau (2022), photo Victoria Tihonova

ALTERNATING CURRENT, Dublin

>>ALTERNATI?NG CURRENT<< 

27/10/2023

The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, along with other featured artists, will be performing at Alternating Current Festival 2023 on October 27-28. The festival centers around the theme of "meitheal," an Irish term for collaborative community labor in creating shared goods, exploring the communal nature of sound production, community connections, and shared musical experiences. This year's edition fosters new collaborations, celebrates sonic cultures, radio art, and modern Irish music. The festival also features a daytime program by the Dublin Art and Technology Association and collaborations with internet radio stations.

Complex Arts Centre                        O.J.A.I. performance

21-25 Arran St East                          27 October

Smithfield

Dublin D07 YY97                               

Ireland

https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/alternating-current-2023

Image: O.J.A.I official portrait (2021), photo Ann Christine Freuwörth

 

I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR, Dublin

 

>>I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR<< 

21/10/0223

The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence is excited to extend a warm invitation to 'I'll Be Your Mirror,' curated by Pádraic E. Moore in response to the current Andy Warhol exhibition at The Hugh Lane. This special evening is conceived as a collage of performance, spoken word, screenings, and live music. Part I features contributions from Erica Schreiner presenting a performance, author Nicole Flattery reading from her book 'Nothing Special,' Ronan McCrea offering an intervention in the evening's program, and a live performance by the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence. The evening will also include an interval wine reception. Please note that advance booking is essential.

The Hugh Lane Gallery                        Opening reception

Charlemont House                               21 October

Parnell Square North                           19:00

Dublin 1

Ireland

https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/ill-be-your-mirror-part-1-2/

Image: O.J.A.I Tunnel Affection (2022), photo Dorje de Burgh

YOU MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME, Fort Worth

>>SENTIMENTAL/ SYSTEMIC<< 

28/09/2023 - 04/10/2023 (view by appointment)

You are invited to 'Sentimental/Systemic: You Mean Everything To Me,' my first solo exhibition in Texas in over a decade. This exhibition presents a condensed selection of work from the past four years, focusing on strict and repetitive material protocols such as perforating, embroidering, redacting, signing, stamping, franking, and sending by post. The body of work is inhabited by sullen post-war office blocks,  architectural love letters, balkanized landmasses, and embroidered Florida beefcakes, a self-inventory marked by a complex interplay of desire and coercive energy.  This exhibition has been made possible through the generous support of Tarrant County College, the Arts Council of Ireland, and the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles as part of my ongoing residency at TCC.

Carillon Gallery                                    Opening reception

SPAC 1103A                                         28 September

TCC South Campus                              11:50

5301 Campus Drive

Fort Worth TX76119

https://calendar.tccd.edu/event/art_exhibition_you_mean_everything_to_me

Image: postal dispatch 2020134 (2020)

NUIT BLANCHE, Paris

 >>NUIT BLANCHE<< 

03/06/2023 

Nuit Blanche will take place on June 3, 2023, during the summer season, marking the opening of the cultural season. Throughout the night, a selection of international contemporary art practices will be freely accessible across Paris and the metropolis. The Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles will host its program at Le Sample, offering a thought-provoking Nuit Blanche featuring performances and live sound. The performances will be presented by the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence and the Le Comité des Fêtes. The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence will showcase a new performance titled "No Hard Shoulder," which will be their first-ever performance in French. It will explore the emotional possibilities of architecture and public spaces through transgressive performances and political imagination. The piece is site-specific, utilizing the nearby Boulevard Périphérique ring road and Mercuriale Towers (office blocks) as inspiration for performative actions.. 

Le Sample                                Performance

18 Av. de la République               03 June

93170 Bagnolet                         20:00hrs

France

https://cwb.fr/agenda/nuit-blanche-2023-au-sample-bagnolet

Image: Mercuriale Towers (2023)

PROCEDURAL AUDIT 1, Mechelen

>>PROCEDCURAL AUDIT 1<< 

28/05/2023 

In the context of the ongoing exhibition The Seduction of the Bureaucrat, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence will give a presentation titled "Procedural Audit 1", aiming to reappraise the maligned organisational phenomenon of bureaucratic red tape. Red tape is characterised by excessive administrative procedures and adherence to official rules and protocols, which can often be perceived as frustrating, disempowering and even perverse. During the performance, O.J.A.I. will enact various methods and techniques that transfigure bureaucratic processes into being tools for reification, self-actualization, and magic. Procedural Audit 1 incorporates music, storytelling, form filling, sonic artefacts and the legendary O.J.A.I. staff tombola game complete with exciting prizes.

De Garage                                   Presentation

Onder-Den-Toren 12                    28 May

B-2800 Mechelen                         15:00hrs

Belgium

https://cultuurcentrum.mechelen.be/the-seduction-of-the-bureaucrat

Image: performance materials (2023)

THE SEDUCTION OF THE BUREAUCRAT, Mechelen

 

>>THE SEDUCTION OF THE BUREAUCRAT<< 

15/03/2023 - 04/06/2023 (vernissage 12/3)

O.J.A.I. is delighted to be participating in this exhibition and series of public conversations about the relationship between art and bureaucracy- a curatorial initiative of Pieter Vermeulen.. The artist and the civil servant are far apart, each in their own biotope: the studio and the office. Creativity generally does not conform to forms, procedures and protocols. Yet artists inevitably come into contact with bureaucracy. How do they look at it and how do they deal with it in their work? Do kafkaesque situations still play out in shadowy backrooms and dusty archives, or does today's office space look different? What role does digital infrastructure play? What does Bartleby's famous words “I would prefer not to” mean within a contemporary work ethic of quiet quitting, bore- and burn-out? Does creativity still make sense in a country where even bookkeeping is creative? Is it up to the artist to seduce the bureaucrat, or is it difficult for the bureaucrat to resist the bureaucratic temptation? 

With Apparatus 22, Jan Banning, Deborah Bowmann, AA Bronson, Tiago Duarte, Anna Bella Geiger, Sarah Hendrickx, LAb[au], Ariane Loze, Wesley Meuris, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, Vijai Patchineelam, Lieven Segers, Pilvi Takala, Axel van der Kraan, Herman Van Ingelgem, Philippe Van Wolputte and Vermeir & Heiremans.

De Garage                                    Opening reception

Onder-Den-Toren 12                    12 March

B-2800 Mechelen

Belgium

https://cultuurcentrum.mechelen.be/the-seduction-of-the-bureaucrat

Image: postcard correspondence (2023)

RADHARC: PERSPECTIVES IN PRINT, Cork

>>RADHARC<< 

04/02/2023 - 21/05/2023

'The Irish word radharc suggests a prospect, view, scene, range of vision, or something seen. Drawn from Crawford Art Gallery’s extensive print collection, this exhibition is mediated through bilingual (Gaeilge/English) signage and offers a cross-section of printmaking over the past hundred years. Featured artists: Norman Ackroyd, Katherine Boucher Beug, Naomi Boretz, Georges Braque, Christo, Jan de Fouw, Otto Dix, Micheal Farrell, Gary Farrelly, Anna R. Findlay, Joy Gerrard, Debbie Godsell, Mark Hathaway, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Fiona Kelly, Paul Larocque, David Lilburn, Aidan Linehan, Frieda Meaney, Joan Miró, Cóilín Murray, Jennifer O’Sullivan, Eduardo Paolozzi, Pablo Picasso, Nigel Rolfe, Georges Rouault, Mabel Allington Royds, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Edward Twohig, and Corban Walker.

Crawford Art Gallery

Emmet Place

Cork City

Ireland

https://crawfordartgallery.ie/radharc-perspectives-in-print/

image: International Airport (2004)

THE ARCHITECTS, Berlin

>>THE ARCHITECTS<< 

04/02/2023 - 21/05/2023

On the 23rd of January 2023, BcmA will open its doors to an exhibition which bridges the gap between art and architecture. “The Architects” contemporary art exhibition will host artworks which examine structural form and visionary architectural design.  Although architecture’s primary function is to create liveable spaces, it is also designed to evoke emotion and inspire, in this way its wires cross with art. This art form is one which concerns us all. A contemporary building eventually will become a part of our history, therefore allowing us to label it as the future as well as the past. Like in all art forms; cultures, civilizations and historical events are associated with certain architectural styles.   

“The Architects” brings attention back to the artistic value of a structure, pausing on a single moment, texture or shadow cast by it.  The raw materials of buildings will be explored through paint, canvas and sculpture rather than steel and concrete. Remember when you leave, the exhibition does not end as you step into the city, each building is an artwork and the streets their gallery. Participating artists: Jan Bernstein, Anina Brisolla, Joanna Buchowska, Hendrik Czakainski

Gary Farrelly, Jens Hausmann, Nima Keshtkar, Ida Lennartsson and Dorothea Nold. 

BcmA Project Speace,

Manteuffelstraße 42

D-10997 Berlin

Germany

https://bcma.gallery/the-architects/

image: große Flughafen Verspätung traurig (2022)

WHY BE AN ARTIST?, Dublin

 

>>WHY BE AN ARTIST?<< 

02/12/2022 - 16/01/2023

'Why be an artist?' (after Noel Sheridan and Leigh Hobba) is an exhibition and film project by Oisín Byrne and Vaari Claffey with Kevin Atherton, Isadora Epstein, Gary Farrelly, Leigh Hobba, Séamus Nolan, Grace Weir and Noel Sheridan. The project  takes as its starting point (artist and late director of the NCAD) Noel Sheridan’s performance work, Why be an artist?. In the work, filmed by Leigh Hobba in 1994, Sheridan talks through a series of reasons NOT to be an artist, most of which come down to commitment, integrity and an unwillingness to instrumentalise art.

NCAD Gallery

100 Thomas Street

Dublin 8

Ireland

https://www.ncad.ie/gallery-event/view/why-be-an-artist

image: oisin Byrne & Vaari Claffey, Why Be An Artist (2022)

PROXIMITY PAPERS, Brussels

>>PROXIMITY PAPERS- NOTES FROM AN ORGANISATIONAL SELF<< 

17/11/2022 - 08/12/2022

Proximity Papers is Gary Farrelly’s first solo exhibition in Brussels, a curatorial initiative of Various Artists. The new body of work signals a reignition of his interest in obsessive and repetitive processes of hand manufacture such as stitching, stenciling, typing, folding, labelling and redacting. The exhibition proposes a series of architectural, geographical and political fictions laced with traces of self-referential archiving and linguistic contamination. Support for this projects has been generously provided by the Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Arts council of Ireland and Fingal Arts Office

Nadine — laboratory for contemporary arts

105 Rue de Laekensqtraat

Brussels 1000

Belgium

https://index.nadine.be/proximity-papers-new-works-from-an-organisational-self/

image: Future Forecast postcard #2020120 (2020) 

TUNNEL AFFECTION, Berlin

>>TUNNEL AFFECTION << 

09.10.2022

Tunnel Affection proposes three performances in subterranean contexts featuring Merzedes Sturm-Lie, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence O.J.A.I. (Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly) and Ogar Grafe. Tunnel Affection is part of TERI*, an ongoing series of O.J.A.I. operations exploring tunnels as ready-made stages for performative interventions and other forms of cultural assembly. Previous subterrestial initiatives include a renaming ceremony in the Wuppertal Angst Tunnel, affective listening & underpass-themed cocktails in the Charleroi Paradise Tunnels and a musical composition workshop in the defamed under-street passages of Chisinau, Moldova. Tunnel Affection starts in the immense, futuristic ICC tunnel before proceeding to a nearby underground location. The evening culminates in a party with DJ Daniel Shushan. Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence is generously supported by Berlin Musikfonds.

* Tunnel Emancipation and Recreation Initiative

Sunday 09 October, 2022

International Congress Center 

52.5074568046419, 13.28059659778017

@merzzedes21

@jointintelligence

@ogar.grafe.artist.berlin

AUDITING INTIMACY, Brussels/Berlin

>>AUDITING INTIMACY<< 

From 11/11/2021 

Auditing Intimacy catalogues five years of Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence's postcard correspondence and performative paper-trail. In addition to over 80 images, the publication contains a specially commissioned essay by curator Alicja Melzacka dealing with self-institutionalization - the performing of the self as an institution - as an approach to artistic research and performance. There is a lexicon disambiguating the invented bureaucratic jargon O.J.A.I. produces and circulates around their practice. The publication was designed by Zero-Desk, Antwerp and was published by Fantôme Verlag, Berlin. Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence is the co-authored practice of Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly.

In stock at

Slanted, Berlin

Motto, Berlin

Rile, Brussels

Wiels, Brussels

CCA, Derry

FRUIT ANXIETY, Brussels

 

>>FRUIT ANXIETY - DESIRE AND METHOD<< 

11/11/2021 - 13/10/2021

SB34 is happy to announce the opening of its second space of artist studios and project space at 87 Boulevard Clovis. For this first exhibition, SB34 invites Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (Gary Farrelly & Chris Dreier) to take its headquarters in the atrium, a space with a singular and ambivalent architecture, and at the same time a reception, transit and meeting area. In this setting, which evokes the lobby of an anonymous company, the exhibition is conceived as an installation-display offering a glimpse into the universe of O.J.A.I., with a scenography by Steven Jouwersma, and within which the artists Julia Zinnbauer, Robin Faymonville and Marjolein Guldentops are also invited to perform.

SB34 Clovis
Boulevard Clovis, 87
Brussels

https://www.sb34.org

WHITE PAPER ON THE ABOLITION OF TUNNELS, Dublin & Tbilisi

>>WHITE PAPER ON THE ABOLITION OF TUNNELS << 

26.08.2020 

The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence presents a radio performance based on their obsession with pedestrian tunnels. Find out why the locals of Wuppertal refer to their tunnels as ‘angst tunnels’ and why the city of Dallas ‘ deemphasized’ their downtown tunnel network.  Expect music, field recordings, collaborative work, sonic engagement, monologues, cautionary tales and pornography. The transmission encompasses material gathered in the field by O.J.A.I. in Belgium, Germany, the United States and Moldova and is part of their ongoing Tunnel Emancipation and Reactivation Initiative (TERI). The transmission goes out on Dublin Digital Radio and exceptionally, on the Common Waves Radio platform in the context of the 2020 Architecture Biennial in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Broadcast 

Monday 26 October, 2020

18:00 Dublin/ 19:00 Berlin & Brussels/ 22:00 Tbilisi/ 12.00 Dallas 

https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/resident/no-tourists

https://www.common-waves.com

URBAN RECONNAISSANCE, Chisinau

 

>>EDU-ART << 

24.08.2020 

The performative presentation will introduce Office for joint administrative Intelligence's work across a wide variety of mediums including installation, bureaucracy. urban reconnaissance and radio broadcasts. The talk will focus on the strategy of self-institutionalisation which is central to the practice- whereby ceremonies, terminology, and other levers of corporate and political control are appropriated and repurposed as tools for research, performance, and structuring intimacy. The presentation will be in English. The talk is followed by two days of Urban Reconnaissance workshops instructed by O.J.A.I. focused on pedestrian tunnel infrastructure in down town Chisinau.

O.J.A.I. is invited to participate by Oberliht Association in the context of Edu-Art 2020 - art research and cultural activism on the periphery. The project is generously supported by Administraţia Fondului Cultural Naţional din România (AFCN). 

Zpațiu / Zpace                                   Artist Talk

103 Strada Alexei Şciusev                 24 September 19:00hrs

Chișinău 

Moldova                                             EDU-ART PROGRAM

HERO WORSHIP SPECIAL, Dublin & Berlin

>>HERO WORSHIP SPECIAL << 

03.08.2020 

Join O.J.A.I. this evening for our Hero Worship Special on DDR Dublin Digital Radio. We have an interview with Wolfgang Müller about his collaborations with the late Tabea Blumenschein! Also assembled for your listening pleasure: North Vietnamese propaganda, Speedcore, Electric Organ, BBC sound archive, the father of American conspiracy theory, Catholic synth produced by nuns and the ever present voice of the Office forJoint Administrative Intelligence.

Broadcast 

Monday 3 August 2020 (transmissions every subsequent 4th Monday) 

18:00 Dublin/ 19:00 Brussels/ 12:00 Dallas 

https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/resident/no-tourists