Oleksiy Shkuropatskiy, performer

«He used to make performative actions, only we did not call them like this at that time. I remember he in a Youth Library, naked, hanged in front of himself a inscription: "Danger! Keep out!". With this sign he was moving around, reading poetry. I have no idea how such a performance has been allowed in a library. The times were quite liberal», - recollects Yaroslav Minkin. Today Oleksiy Shkuropatskiy is well-known bagpipe player participated in several music projects as well as playing bagpipe in a public space. This is how Shkuropatskiy explains his idea of playing on the street: «The bagpipe attracts attention. Thanks to unusual music performance they can see the world under unexpected angle. I consiously reject doing something else in my life, reject getting profit from something else. Nobody believes me knowing I am hard-worker or manager playing a rock-hero in a spare time. No, they have to see me not as a social trick for entertaining them. Me is exactly what they see. and they also can start their life project, their business and shine through it».

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