One of the most common fallacies about democracy as an unlimited right to limitless choice is that mental image of society as a window on a department store: “Sale!”, “Everything for 0,99!”, “Buy two – get one for free”, “from 7 to 77”… Following this line of reasoning, OPA created the work Bollocks [1] and its extended version Bollocks for Everybody! [2]

As the title implies, the abundant selection and variety of choices are truly “… for Everybody!” – depending on the type of the audience; on the other hand, trading in “Bollocks …” [3] is not merely a dadaist crassness, but rather a synonym of having- lacking the contents – at places where its presence is expected or unpredictable.

In one instance, the implementation of Bollocks for Everybody! is reaching its closure as an event for the passersby: “In want for audience, the work does not exist, it is meaningless”. Then again, when presented before the regular visitor of cultural events, the concept turns into an image of indifferent emptiness: “The art is always somewhere else”.
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[1] While the work is a complex sensor-based installation, the audience is facing a simple event: Video projection on a wall; when the audience is out, the video image shows two sitting figures; when the spectator enters, the figures leave.

[2] The second version of the work was created for the purposes of the solo exhibition Bollocks For Everybody!, held inside and on the windows of Mala Galerija, Skopje, 2010.

[3] In the Macedonian contemporary vernacular, the expression “to get bollocks” means to obtain nothing.