[spectre] Art is always somewhere else: Interview with OPA.

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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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