For the past seven years, Irish artist Gary Farrelly’s practice has manifested as an artistic duo practice known as the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, with German artist Chris Dreier.
This October marks their return to Dublin with two performances. The first, hosted at the Hugh Lane has been commissioned by Padraic E Moore as part of the I’ll Be Your Mirror program—a response to the Andy Warhol exhibition. This piece delves into their distinct bureaucratic and ritualistic approach to hero worship. They’ll be activating office blocks real and imagined as ritualistic technologies within the performance’s framework.
A week later, they’ll be taking to the stage at the Alternating Currents Festival, organized by Dublin Digital Radio, where they’ve had a radio show on the station since 2020. This performance offers a rougher, more manic aspect, integrating sound archives, a quiz show element, and political fiction.
Hugh Lane, Saturday October 21.
Check out our feature Bureau #304 – Gary Farrelly from 2016
