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 bureaucratic phenomenon of bureaucratic red tape. Red tape is characterised by excessive administrative procedures and adherence to official rules and formalities, 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

NO TOURISTS, Dublin

>>NO TOURISTS << 
06.06.2020 

No Tourists is a new public service broadcast from the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence. O.J.A.I. directors Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly present a themed selection of obscure music, audio documents, and monologues in an atmosphere of monumental architecture, institutional power and DIY ritual. 

Inaugural Broadcast 
Monday 6 June 2020 (transmissions every subsequent 4th Monday) 
18:00 Dublin/ 19:00 Brussels/ 12:00 Dallas 

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

GLUE, Dublin

>>GLUE <<

10.03.2020

As part of the exhibition Desire: A Revision at IMMA the Irish Museum of Modern Art are delighted to collaborate with the Irish Film Institute (IFI) in showing the Dublin premiere of the film GLUE, directed by Oisin Byrne with monologues written and performed by Gary Farrelly. The first screening will be followed by Q&A with Rachel Thomas, Head of Exhibitions at IMMA, and co-curator of Desire exhibition.

Irish Film Institute                        First Screening 

6 Eustice Street                             10 March 2020

Dublin 8                                         18.30hrs

HIGH-RISE BOYFRIEND SULLEN STRUCTURES, Bernau

Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, Southern Headquarters (2017) 

    14.12.2O19

In the context of the Bauhaus centenary, the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence is bringing their cult bingo game to the German city of Bernau. The performance is based on the organisations' recurring fixation with the built environment and features readings, a slide show, prize-draw and music from the OJAI Political and Infrastructural Sound Archive (PISA).  Most importantly, there are very desirable OJAI monogrammed prizes to be won. Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly are delighted to be joining forces with D. Holland Morritz for this project. Refreshments will be served. Frequent Regional (13 min) and S Bahn trains to Bernau depart from Berlin Gesundbrunnen. 

Galerie Bernau                         

Bürgermeisterstraße 4                       Performance Time
16321 Bernau bei Berlin                     14 December 2019           
Germany                                           19:00 hrs        

                           

www.galerie-bernau.de                      

TWO OF HEARTS, Brussels

>>TWO OF HEARTS<<

    09.11.2O19 & 26.11.2019

Aisha Christison & Jack Burton, Angyvir Padilla & Yoel Pytowski, Ekaterina Kaplunova & Richard Venlet, Gary Farrelly & Gilles Hellemans, Marie Sardin & Rémy Tith, Nils Alix-Tabeling & Justin Fitz Patrick. Curated by Jacopo Pagin

SB34 The Pool
34 Rue Saint Bernard                                 
B-1060 Brussels                                                
Belgium   

                                                              
www.sb34.org

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF INSTITUTIONAL IDEATORS, Wuppertal

>>EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF INSTITUTIONAL IDEATORS -  ECII2019<<

    26.10.2O19 & 27.10.2019

ECII brings together practices that appropriate institutional identities, processes and languages as tools for artistic research, performance and production. The program happens over two days of performances, lectures, screenings and concerts. The participants include an office, a department, an assembly, a headquarters, a society, an agency and a ministry. The conference culminates in a Plenary Session, a round table discussion moderated by Joseph Noonan-Ganley. ECII is hosted by the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence and is generously supported by Grölle Pass Projects and Kulturbüro Wuppertal.

Featuring- Department of Ultimology, ENCORE, Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples G.E.S, Vanja Smiljanić- Minister of Cosmic People for the countries of Ex-Yugoslavia, Portugal and Former Portuguese Colonies, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, T.A.L.O.S., That Might Be Right, Self Luminous Society, Joseph Noonan-Ganley , Pádraic E. Moore, Julia Zinnbauer. Scenography by Parasite 2.0. Publication in collaboration with Zero-Desk. ECII website by Tea Palmelund.

Grölle Pass Projects
143 e Friedrich Ebert Strasse                                 Conference hours 
D-42117 Wuppertal                                                 Sat 14:00 - late (inc refreshments and dancing)
Germany                                                                 Sun 12:00 - 19:00 (inc refreshments and excursion)

www.jointintelligence.org/conference

KNOW YOUR PLACE, Wuppertal

>>KNOW YOUR PLACE<<

    19.10.2O19 & 01.12.2019

The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence's second exhibition at Groelle Pass Projects KNOW YOUR PLACE showcases obsessive research in the combined field of architecture, hero-worship, conspiracy theory and the power of institutions. It encompasses maps, videos, audio work, postal correspondence and declassified documents from the archive. In addition, the exhibition is accompanied by a limited edition vinyl LP featuring Dreier and Farrelly reading lists, their preferred format for conveying information. It also includes sounds from OJAI's Political and Infrastructural Sound Archive.

The scenography for Know Your Place is by Italian architecture and design practice Parasite 2.0 who have designed a bespoke office environment especially for OJAI. Their construction functions as a system of display as well as a site of collaboration, performance and work.

The exhibition is inextricably linked to the European Conference of Institutional Ideators ECII, hosted by OJAI on October 26/27 - a gathering of self-instituted artistic practices. The exhibition responds to the same question that motivates the conference: How to be an institution? Why be an institution? How to institute?


Grölle Pass Projects
143 e Friedrich Ebert Strasse                             
D-42117 Wuppertal                                                 
Germany                                                                

www.groelle.de

PLENARY SESSION, Wexford

>>PLENARY SESSION 1 <<

    21.O6.2O19

The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence is delighted to present a new performance entitled Plenary Session 1. The work comes to Wexford in the context of Here/There, a Rhineland-South East collaboration curated by Anya von Gosselnand Juergen Groelle facilitated by Wexford Arts Centre. Plenary Session 1 is O.J.A.I.’s first Irish performance outside Dublin and combines spoken word, audio and video elements pertaining to O.J.A.I.’s research in the field of calamity, conspiracy theory, and political identity. The performance takes place in Wexford County Council's legislative chamber, the ideal scenography for O.J.A.I.'s ongoing investigation into the bureaucratic apparatus that ensures collective functioning and the power structures embedded in public architecture.

The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence was founded in 2015 by Chris Dreier (DE) and Gary Farrelly (IRE/BE) and is headquartered in Berlin and Brussels. O.J.A.I. research focuses on esoteric information embedded in the urban environment and the agency of the self in history’s bigger narrative. O.J.A.I. work takes the form of surveys, field trips, publications, performances, videos, and a radio show. O.J.A.I. exhibitions, temporary offices and performances have taken place at Marres, House for-Contemporary Culture (Maastricht), Laura Mars Gallery (Berlin), Groelle pass:projects (Wuppertal), 500X Gallery (Dallas), ISELP Institute (Brussels), Damien & The Love Guru (Brussels), AIR (Antwerp) and Cultuurcentrum (Hasselt). This Autumn, O.J.A.I. will host the first ever European Conference of Institutional Ideators at Groelle Pass Projects in Wuppertal.

Wexford County Council
Newtown Road                                           Performance Time 
Carricklawn                                                 21 June 2019
Wexford                                                      18.00 hrs

www.jointintelligence.org

FESTIVAL OF CONTROL, Hasselt

National Day of Lists and Inventory (performance) rehearsal photo courtesy of  ©Pauline Poelmans

>>FESTIVAL OF CONTROL <<

    24.03.2019 - 16.06.2019

Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence is delighted to be presenting a new performance in the context Festival van de Controle (Festival of Control) curated by Sarah Van Marcke & Thierry Vandenbussche at CCHA in Hasselt. The performance inaugurates the National Day of Lists and inventory, a new National holiday initiated by OJAI to promote Belgium's rich bureaucratic heritage, and more generally- to engage the public with listmaking as a generative tool in daily life. An installation of OJAI material used in the performance will remain on display for the duration of the show.

Artists participating in Festival van de Controle: Francis Alÿs (BE/MEX), Mémé Bartels (NL), Ruben Bellinkx (BE), Roelien Brink (ZAF), Stefan Brüggemann (MEX), Guy Cassiers (BE), Constant Dullaart (NL), Fischli & Weiss (CH), Kendell Geers (ZAF/BE), Maarten Inghels (BE), Matthew Leifheit & Cynthia Talmadge (US), Ariane Loze (BE), Taus Makhacheva (RUS), Simon Menner (DE), Zach Nader (US), The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (OJAI) - Chris Dreier (DE) & Gary Farrelly (IRL/BE), Amalia Pica (ARG/UK), Annaïk Lou Pitteloud (CH/BE), Corinna Schnitt (DE), Roman Signer (CH), Lisa van Casand (NL), Ben Van den Berghe (BE) & Alexey Shlyk (RUS/BE), Chaim van Luit (NL), Sarah Van Marcke (BE), Rob Wetzer (NL)  

CCHA Cultuurcentrum Hasselt

Kunstlaan 5                                            Performance Time 

Hasselt B-3500                                       24 March 2019

finfo@ccha.be                                        19.00 hrs

DEBATES ON DIVISION, Brussels

>>DEBATES ON DIVISION <<

    16.03.2019

Debates on Division: when private becomes public is an ongoing, interactive performance that deals with the complexity of current political reality and its implications. What begins as a fictional TV talk show with invited actors and artists ends with a performative procession to the European Parliament. Gluklya and Anna Bitkina thus aim to create a public forum that highlights different forms of human fragility and traumas caused by deviating from established political structures. In collaboration with Philippine Hoegen, Teresa Cos, Gary Farrelly and Polina Akhmetzyanova. Debates on Division is taking place in the context of Performatik19 Brussels Biennial of Performance Art.

Bozar Centre for Fine Arts

Rue Ravenstein 23                                   Performance Time 

Brussels 1000                                          16 March 2019

tickets@bozxar.be                                    15.00 - 17.00hrs