Events/Openings

In 2015 Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly founded an internationally operating organisation, "The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence", OJAI for short. There each of both founding members has accepted an office: Chris Dreier has the seat of the „Director for Financial Research and Systemic Risk“ and operates from Berlin, whereas Gary Farrelly holds the post of the „Director for Administrative Heritage“ at the EU‐metropolis of Brussels where he supervises the „Self Inventory Desk“. By this very special method of self‐instutionalisation and with the aim of the bureaucratisation of human experience both artists have jointly created a modular system in which they are allowed to incorporate all their activities and obsessions like documents are being clipped into a filing cabinet. The main focus of the artistic alliance, which is very serious and full of humour at the same time, is on a jointly cultivated euphoria for modernism. Wether it be in the area of architecture, of infrastructure, in the sector of financial concerns or in the field of information processing – progress and rationality are the core elements of their work.
So at Laura Mars Gallery the office will be presented as an art installation: OJAI, in other terms. As there are so many links and interferences between the ideas of Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly, it is more than self‐evident that they aim for nothing less than a Gesamtkunstwerk. In regular intervals both artists meet for meticulously planned summit conferences in Brussels and in Berlin. In this context they go on excursions and they also decide on their further activities. Finally they publish the time schedules and the results of each summit on the official homepage of the OJAI.