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Art is always somewhere else: Interview with OPA.
By Darko Aleksovski
Darko Aleksovski interviews OPA (Slobodanka Stevceska and Denis
Saraginovski). OPA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression) is an artistic
collaboration, based in Macedonia, whose focus is researching the
social, cultural and everyday issues, as well as the ways of looking,
thinking and behaving of a certain community in the shifting social and
political conditions.
Their project entitled “Bollocks” is a complex and yet very simple
interactive installation, made out of a video/image projection in a room
in which only one viewer at a time is allowed to see it. The project was
first shown at the Authorial Through The Appearance 3 exhibition in
Veles, Macedonia (2009). Then it was modified in a second version
entitled as “Bollocks for Everybody” for the Small Gallery in Skopje,
Macedonia. After that the project was shown at the fifth edition of the
AKTO- Festival for Contemporary Arts (2010) where it was awarded with
the annual Dragisa Nanevski Award for interdisciplinary achievments. The
project was also shown in Studio Golo Brdo, Rovinjsko Selo, Croatia (2011).
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/art-always-somewhere-else-interview-opa
Darko Aleksovki is a visual artist who lives and works in Veles,
Republic of Macedonia. Graduated at the Faculty of Fine Arts (BFA in
Painting), in Skopje, Macedonia. His artistic interests include drawing,
experimental video, art books, alternative comics, performances,
experimental graphic design and installation art. His theoretical
interests include institutional critique, art as activism, alternative
art forms, internet-based art, interactive art, situationists
international, de-centralization of culture and culture spaces. Other
interests include philosophy of art, art theory, criticism, art and art
related practices in social context.
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