Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.) | Current

Kurzbiografie

Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.), the collaborative practice of German artist Chris Dreier and Irish artist Gary Farrelly, has operated since 2015 between Brussels and Berlin as a speculative para-intelligence agency. Deploying tactics of self-institution, O.J.A.I. is fueled by entangled research into corporate architecture, urban peripheries, tunnels, infrastructural memory, and systemic frictions. Their work takes shape in performances, installations, artefacts, publications, vinyl records, written correspondence, and a monthly radio show. O.J.A.I.'s work has been presented at Marres Maastricht (2017), Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin (2023)), CAC Cincinnati (2022) and the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (2023).

The image shows a couple or two people standing together in elegant clothing, embracing with serious expressions in a graffiti-covered, dark tunnel. They are holding a large bouquet of white and red flowers.

The image shows two people in formal clothing sitting at a table full of glasses, champagne bottles, and technical devices, working intently. One person is standing and gesturing, while the other is writing something down.

The image shows a person in a white overall kneeling, interacting with another person in a glittering outfit and fishnet stockings, while the latter is creating a large drawing with colorful lines and symbols on the floor.