For the Artist-Run Spaces at CAC, BasketShop fostered an international collaboration of artists that focus on archiving the dystopian present.

Artist duo Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly have collaborated from their respective posts in Berlin and Brussels to create the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, a nomadic operation of sound and performance that utilizes the aesthetics of bureaucracy to produce radio programs, and convene summit hearings that walk the edge between banality and absurdity. Through their research, they strive to circumvent structural norms through the creation of a governmental orgnization that archives material otherwise overlooked in the current narrative of prosperity.

Included in the installation is a collection of circuit-bent instruments created by the artist/musician Elucidated Voyyd, founder of the transgenetics collective CGRU (cybergrunge.net). The collection of electronic instruments coincides with BasketShop’s annual Transmission event that celebrates the achievements of the LGBTQ+ community to electronic music in Cincinnati, the birthplace of the sub-genre musical performance known as circuit-bending. Voyyd views the creation of such instruments to be a political statement in itself to comment on a society of excess consumer goods that are readily discarded as electronic waste.

BroadCast is an example of BasketShop’s programming that allows space for artist activism and the intersection of art and tech. The collaborative effort that is materialized from this exhibition includes artists that are able to identify with the city of Cincinnati in order to broaden a global dialogue of cultural similarities instead of finding differences.