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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