EP68 - NATOarts - Art is War
What does an experimental electronic record from the 90’s have to do with NATO? And what does it have in common with a group of Russian artists painting landscapes in disputed Japanese territory?
I’ve gone down a bit of a rabbit hole today about propaganda, world-building in music, and the role art plays in politics. Enjoy.
Credits/sources:
Nato-arts & Icebreaker International
Natoarts website - https://www.natoarts.com/icebreaker/dew_home.html
Main article sourced - https://www.nypress.com/news/cat-and-mouse-with-natoarts-IHNP1020000912309129974
Further reading sources on Natoarts
http://www.followthethings.com/treinmaersk.shtml
https://www.diskant.net/features/icebreaker-international/
https://youtu.be/uCQTXCTNXng?si=cmv-URve-_n-mlgr
The Shikotan Group
Article: Pictorializing the Southern Kuril Islands: The “Shikotan Group” and the Artists of the Russian Far East*
Hisashi YAKOU
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center - Hokkaido University
https://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no17_ses/04yako.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands
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