PROJECT WHICH IS NOT A PROJECT / OPA
Video screening and promotion of a book
Location: University of Tourism and Management in Skopje (Blvd "Partizanski odredi" No.99) Opening: 22.10.2013 (Tuesday), 20:30 (a one-day event)
OPA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression)
OPA was founded in 2001 by the visual artists Slobodanka Stevceska (*1971, Skopje, Macedonia) and Denis Saraginovski (*1971, Skopje, Macedonia). Both of them studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje and are working on the borderline of art, media and performance.
OPA has had solo exhibitions in Macedonia, Estonia, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Germany, USA and the Netherlands and has exhibited widely in group exhibitions and festivals such as Transmediale, Berlin; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Transeuropa – European Theatre- and Performance Festival, Hildesheim; Freewaves’ Biennial of New Media Arts, Los Angeles; I Had a Dream, Kunstraum Baden, Switzerland; Victory Obsessed, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznan; etc. OPA received residency fellowships in Estonia, France, Germany and Switzerland. Continue reading
UTOPIAS / DYSTOPIAS: DOCUMENTS
Location: ARHITEKTRI, Franklin Roosevelt 68 1/2, Skopje Opening: 20. 04. 2013 (Saturday), 20.00 hrs (the exhibition will be open only that evening until 22.00 hrs)
Mirna Arsovska, Ivana Dragsic, Aleksandar Spasoski, Oliver Musovik, Igor Toshevski, Harald Schenker, Ines Efremova, Slavica Toshevska, Dijana Bogdanovska, Tihomir Jancovski, Vladimir Nedelkovski, Gjorgje Jovanovik, Jana Jakimovska, Nikola Uzunovski, Filip Jovanovski, Danilo Mandic, Vladimir Jancevski, Mile Nicevski, Daniel Gontz (Romania), Sinisha Labrovic (Croatia)
“Utopias/Dystopias: Documents” tends to address the question of society’s idealised mega-projections of the future as well as the success/ failure of such constructs. It does so by means of tangible artistic interventions in public space where diverse interests, tendencies and interpretations form a social reality. At the same time, it is an attempt to pose new questions and perhaps offer fresh interpretations and definitions of public space, its potential and function in the wider social context. Continue reading
WHERE IS EVERYONE?
Saturday, 16 March 2013, 19:00 hrs.
(the exhibition will be open only that evening until 22 hrs)
Location: Skopje Tourism Board, Dame Gruev st, block 3, #5 (mezzanine), Skopje
Participants: Dijana Tomić-Radevska, Mirna Arsovska, Hristina Ivanoska, Ivana Dragšić, Aleksandar Spasoski, Oliver Musović, Igor Sekovski, Boris Šemov, Simon Uzunovski, Nikola Uzunovski, Igor Toševski, Gjorgje Jovanović, OPA, Filip Jovanovski, Vladimir Jančevski.
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Art and/or politics: Double coding as challenge or paradox?
Public discussion, which will be held at the same location, on Sunday, 17 March 2013, beginning at 12.00 hrs.
Participants:
Prof. Dr. Nebojša Vilić, arts historian
Safet Ahmeti, MA, arts historian
Harald Schenker, MA, analyst
Moderator: Vladimir Jančevski
KAPITAL
Collaborative project
Vladimir Janchevski, Filip Jovanovski,
Igor Toshevski, OPA and Gjorgje Jovanović
Location: Boulevard Sv. Kliment Ohridski, #23 (ground floor space), Skopje
Opening: Thursday, 6 December 2012, 20.30 hrs
WRITINGS OF THE SUICIDAL MIDGET
Location: boul. 8 September, 4 (groundfloor space), Skopje Opening: Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 20.00 hrs The exhibition can be visited from 7-10 November, 17.00-20.00 hrs
KOOPERACIJA would like to thank Filip Spasovski for the space made available.
RESIST TO EXIST
date: 24 September 2012 (Monday) place: Sultan Cafe, ul. 113, br. 14 (Old Bazaar), Skopje time: 08:00 p.m.
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V (an interactive event)
A grab and run action, in cooperation with OZT Fabrika
Date: 14 July 2012 (Saturday) Location: Dimitar Vlahov 10, Vinica Time: 19:30 (The event will last until July 20th in the period of 11:00-14:00 and 18:00-21:00)
Hundreds of books compose together a monument whose singular elements are individual sculptural works; a monument, which constantly alters its shape, mass, weight, meaning or content; a monument that relates to collective memory and the disregarded role of the book. A monument whose new meaning will be discovered once again in the recurrent distribution/ dissemination of the exact number of segments from which it is constituted, among the number of citizens to which it truly belongs.
Personal Politics
Location: boul. 8 September, 4 (groundfloor space), Skopje Opening: 29. 06. 2012, Friday / 21:00 The exhibition will be open every day in the period od 30.06-03.07 from 18:00 till 21.00
Ines Efremova, Snezana Altiparmak, Dijana Bogdanovska, Nemanja Cvijanovic,
Boris Shemov, Vladimir Jancevski, Marcelo Brajnovic, Velimir Zernovski,
Harald Schenker, Nikola Uzunovski, Simon Uzunovski, Gjorgje Jovanovik,
OPA (Slobodanka Stevceska & Denis Saraginovski), Filip Jovanovski, Igor Toshevski
Politics and art have many crossing points. Politics is determined by a defined course of action adopted for the purpose of efficiently achieving specific goals. In the broadest sense, they are synonymous, especially considering the communication aspect of art. Opinions on what makes art political vary from those maintaining that art in general is always engaged, to those who argue that it consists of explicit messages scribbled on the walls of a “conflict zone”. What is evident though, is that corresponding to contemporary occurrences, artists are able in asserting certain political views through their art, just as they are capable to act within any other social structure. However, when confronted with the artwork, the question of how to approach it remains: is it a subjective, personal point of the author, or do we perceive it according to the effect that it renders upon us?
STRATEGIES OF REMEMBRANCE #1
Date: 06. 06. 2012 (Wednesday) Location: Bul. 8 Septemvri, 12/1-9, Skopje Time: 19:00 - 22.00
Slavica Janeshlieva, Simon Uzunovski, Ljubisha Kamenjarov, Yane Calovski, Vladimir Lukash, Zoran Poposki, OPA, Igor Toshevski, Filip Jovanovski, Gjorgje Jovanovik
Strategies of Remembrance is a collaborative research about the relations between cultural and socio-political aspects of memory. Defined as a recollection of subliminal experiences, remembrance is an inseparable part of consciousness of ourselves, and a semantic view of the world that surrounds us. Conceived as a storyline divided in chapters, the first part of this exhibition shall re-examine the very nature of what constitutes personal memories and their internal correlations. Respectfully, with the intention of successfully decoding the fundamental material of collective memory, Strategies of Remembrance 1 will take place in a private apartment, as the starting point in the process of molding the structure of identity.
Bul. 8 Septemvri, 12/1-9, Skopje
Kooperacija would like to thank Zinovski-Vilic family for putting the space at our disposal.
EPP (Economic Propaganda Program)
Date: 16. 05. 2012 (Wednesday) Location: Ul. 9ti Maj, lokal 3, Skopje Time: 20:00 (the exhibition will last for three days)
Cheap tricks and fancy lies, the obsessive zapping of TV channels, decaffeinated ideology and fast food. Be original! Be powerful! Buy the newest product and enjoy the benefits of a society where wealth determines your identity…
Popular culture is our everyday reality, from movies, television, comics and advertisements to the clothes we wear and the language we speak. Defined as the ‘art of the masses’, pop culture has managed to obliterate the borderline between the aesthetics of kitsch and of high art.
In a head on collision with consumerism and turbo Pop, EPP is an attempt to interpret the narratives such as belief, myths, icons and heroic ideals which constantly reaffirm the values of the society in which we exist.
Ul. 9ti Maj, lokal 3, Skopje
Kooperacija would like to thank Ivan Peshevski for putting the space at our disposal.