{"id":1258,"date":"2022-07-23T19:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T19:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2022-07-26T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T11:19:41","slug":"1258-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/1258-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Art not War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday I attended Irinia Danilova&#8217;s presentation &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/franklinfurnace.org\/art-and-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">War in Ukraine &amp; Art<\/a>&#8221; as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/franklinfurnace.org\/the-loft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Franklin Furnace&#8217;s Loft space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>irinia Danilova, who is Ukranian and has lived in the USA for a long time, presented her own artistic response to the war &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinadanilova.net\/WarInUkraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series of flags with messages<\/a> for the country of each flag &#8211; as well as a range of anti-war art from artists in the Ukraine and other countries including Russia. Some of the Russian anti-war artists have been arrested for their work, while others work anonymously.<\/p>\n<p>One of the projects she showed is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polishtheatre.org\/post\/theory-of-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theory of Protection<\/a>&#8221; by the Ukranian artist Darya Koltsova, a window installation project which she initiated in 2014 after Russia&#8217;s invasion of Donetsk and Luhansk, and which Irina Danilova has created in her own window. Citizens tape their windows to prevent them being shattered during bombing; Koltsova turned this into an artistic activity, creating patterns of light and shadow, and invites others to create their own protective installations as a sign of solidarity. The taped patterns bring to mind buddhist mandalas in sand, Indian kolam, and other ritual pattern-making.<\/p>\n<p>Irina&#8217;s presentation was recorded and is <a href=\"https:\/\/franklinfurnace.org\/art-and-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">availble to view on the Loft website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below, Irina Danilova&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinadanilova.net\/WarInUkraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">War In Ukraine National Flags series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1259 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/webNationalFlags6b-1024x943.jpg\" alt=\"Irina Danilova War in Ulkraine flag series\" width=\"1024\" height=\"943\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday I attended Irinia Danilova&#8217;s presentation &#8220;War in Ukraine &amp; Art&#8221; as part of Franklin Furnace&#8217;s Loft space. irinia Danilova, who is Ukranian and<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/1258-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}