THE FIELD OF (NON-HYBRID) BATTLEAND THE UKRAINIAN INTELIGENTSIA

Анотація

The start of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, became a watershed between two worlds for Ukrainians and the global community. After the ambivalent existence between the Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking cultural space of independent Ukraine, the time came to define clear positions and actions for every Ukrainian, artist, actor as well. The slogan “Art over Politics” became irrelevant, the exposed nerves of dramatic events required taking only one, true side in the battle. In the difficult early hours of the war, the critical border situation, the peaceful Ukrainian people transformed from a somewhat infantile, apolitical mass of vita minima people to a vita heroica.
Ukrainian journalists, actors, singers, artists joined the defense of the country both on the battlefield as well as the cultural front, experiencing in the tense times of war and armed aggression the people’s special need for a high quality and creative national product. Artists became more active, realizing that art, culture, and creative industries perform several important functions for strengthening the mental spirit of the people and its patriotic surge. Suggestive, heuristic, hedonistic, communicative, social, nation-building functions dominate among many cultural and artistic expressions.