Chris Dreier

LIVE radio show hosted by Dóra Benyó in collaboration with Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence.
at Haus der Statistik | Tuesday, 23 April, 7–8 pm

Three Categories is a collaborative radio performance featuring Dutch/Hungarian artist Dóra Benyó and the Belgo-German artist duo Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.). Central to the piece are the declassified secret police files compiled after the surveillance of Benyó’s grandfather, an academic and political activist during Hungary’s communist era. The title of the work stems from the categories of loyalty to the state citizens were classified into at the time.

Benyó’s collaboration with O.J.A.I. reimagines the architecture of the state archive, transforming it into a conceptual space representing totalitarian overreach through the excessive production of knowledge. O.J.A.I. contributes to this transformation by creating paranoid organizational atmospheres, conveyed through a series of fictional texts and modular sound compositions.

The collective listening session will take place at Haus der Statistik. Please RSVP to info@airberlinalexanderplatz.de if you wish to join the session in person and get the exact location.

Broadcasted through Colaboradio via Freies Radio Berlin/Brandenburg 88,4 MHz in Berlin 90,7 MHz in Potsdam or listen online.

Image: Chris Dreier, pinhole of Haus der Statistik, 2018

This month’s O.J.A.I. special is about conformity, peer pressure, groupthink, obedience, compliance and the like. For your listening pleasure we compiled a selection of sound extracts and songs inspired by (non) conformity.
With tracks by Tödliche Doris, Stereo Total, Chris Dreier, Brandstifter, Dani Cosmos and many more.
Mon, April 8 19.00 on Dublin Digital Radio and Mon April 15 20.00 on Cashmere Radio.
Relisten

Image: Milgram Experiment

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. ‚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 intervention combines story telling with live modular and synthetic sound accompaniment created specially for the occasion. The thematic resonance of ‚Paranoid Meditation‘ with the futuristic, monolithic architecture of the 4th Space Meditation Centre opens up the possibility of exploring architectonic and existential themes simultaneously. Both the centre and the series are produced and curated by artist and philosopher Dome Wood.
The performance is sold out already.

4th Space Meditation Centre Reservation necessary
Rue des Palais 269 29 February 18.00/19.00/20.00
Brussels B-1000
Belgium

Image taken from 4th Space website

O.J.A.I. celebrates the 50st broadcast with contributions by DJ Axelander from Brussels, from Faded Voyage and Greg Zielke in Berlin. On air since 2020.
Mon, Feb 12 at 19.00 (18.00 local time) at Dublin Digital Radio and on Mon, Feb 19 at 20.00 at Cashmere Radio Berlin.
Image: Dorje DeBurgh

O.J.A.I. presents „TELEPHONE TREMORS“, featuring highly experimental music recorded using telephone handsets, automatic voices, messages and answering machines.  Listen to an hour of tracks inspired by telecommunications technology including O.J.A.I.’s new telephone hotline.

Mon Jan 15 19.00 (18.00 local time) at Dublin Digital Radio 

and Mon, Jan 22 20.00 at Cashmere Radio, Berlin

Also, on Sun, Jan 14 at 12.00 Stegi Radio, Athens, presents DELIA DERBYSHIRE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT by O.J.A.I. as part of Exchange Stegi X Cashmere.

Image: Chris Dreier (1983)

Sa, 18.11.2023 at Jester, Genk, Belgium.
With 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.

We are delighted to present our next radioshow about Moldova, the country nobody knows. It is a radio collage of sounds, signals, voices and atmospheres observed through the wonderful artists, musicians, activists and fellow travellers we have encountered in the city, curated by the visiting delegates of the occult-bureaucratic entity known as The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence.
Mon Nov 20th at 19.00 (18.00 local time) on Dublin Digital Radio, Mon Nov 27th on Cashmere Radio Berlin and this month also on Blackrhino Radio, Bucharest.
Image: Moldocon Tower, Chisinau, Chris Dreier 2021, pinhole photograph

Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence performs as part of the performance program of Andy Warhol Three Times Out at Hugh Lane Museum in Dublin on Oct 21.
On Fr, Oct 27 O.J.A.I. performs at the Alternating Currents Festival hosted by Dublin Digital Radio.
Image: Dorje DeBurgh