ZaUm
OPA Foundation – an entity developed by OPA – was created in 2016 with the aim of developing utilitarian and constructive art practices as an alternative to critical ones. Its focus is solidarity, education and contribution to the community.
So far under this name we developed the long-term project ZaUm Archive – an open online archive of Macedonian art. For several years we have been digitizing secondary materials related to modern and contemporary Macedonian art, such as catalogs, articles, VHS tapes, etc., many of them in the state of disappearing.
So far, the archive covers over 7.000 events.
Further reading:
Вилиќ, Небојша. 2017. Афирмација или хибридизација на вредностите, Facebook project
Blackwood, Jon. 2020. An Alloy Made from Art and Activism, in North Macedonia in North Macedonia in Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience, (ed. Eliza Steinbock, Bram Ieven, Marijke de Valck), Abingdon: Routledge (download the chapter in .pdf)
Frangovska, Ana. 2020. Transdisciplinarity and transmediality as a possible model of protecting the moving cultural heritage in On the Cross-Path of Cultural Ideas: Macedonia, The Balkans, Southeast Europe – Heritage, Management, Resources, (ed. Elizabeta Dimitrova & Irena Тeodora Vesevska), Skopje: Faculty of Philosophy (in .pdf)
Франговска, Ана. 2023. Технологија, политика и екологија у македонској савременој уметности као одраз трансдисциплинарности и трансмедијалности (докторска дисертација), Универзитет Сингидунум у Београду – Факултет за медије и комуникације (download the dissertation in .pdf)