#badiucao

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Badiucao 巴丢草

Artist Website for Badiucao 巴丢草个人网站 Chinese Artist hated by Chinese Gov/ Cartoonist for @CDT @HongKongFP / FreeSpeech & Humanrights / Check

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Badiucao

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In a beautiful image, working from the popular style of the woodblock print, the artist, Badiucao, turns the ‘forced’ burial of Liu Xiaobo at sea to a positive. All waters abutting mainland China are now oceans for the expression of non-violent dissent in the spirit of Liu Xiaobo.

Water is soft, infinitely shape-shifting, supportive, flowing, changeable!

Bravo Liu Xiaobo!

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'Hong Kong is the frontline': New coronavirus artwork highlights human rights crackdown | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Chinese-Australian artist Badiucao has teamed up with Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt for a free expression event in Denmark. New artworks were unveiled relating to the coronavirus and human rights, as Amnesty International’s Danish branch warned that Beijing was exploiting the outbreak to crack down on civil liberties in Hong Kong.

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Art by badiucao.

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Guest Q&A | Melissa Chan + Badiucao on ‘You Must Take Part in Revolution’

The graphic novel from Street Noise Books is a near-future dystopian story about technology, authoritarian governments and fighting for freedom.

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'You Must Take Part in Revolution' is a near future dystopia that follows the lives of three young people who meet during Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests of 2019. It's an engaging and at times uncomfortable story illustrated with a unique art style. This book will suit you if you want to be challenged by a dystopian story that is frighteningly plausible.

This graphic novel explores the ways in which both choice and circumstance shape not just individuals, but the world they live in. We meet the principal characters at Hong Kong's protests, then follow the different paths their lives take in the wake of tragic events.

The novel's backdrop is a world where China has continued on the path to becoming a technologically advanced authoritarian state. Meanwhile, the US still tries to paint itself as a beacon of democracy, but in many ways has succumbed to the kind of authoritarianism it claims to rail against.

The world as it's portrayed in 2035 is still recognizable as our own, despite the dystopian elements. What makes the story so engaging and frightening is it paints a plausible path to this dystopian future based on current political trends.

This one of those dystopian stories where saying you "liked" or "enjoyed" it doesn't feel right. It isn't because the novel is bad. Rather, it's that the experience is at times unsettling and uncomfortable. Well crafted dystopia should arguably do that. This novel gave me similar feelings to reading books like 1984 or watching Brazil.

'You Must Take Part in Revolution' is a graphic novel that should suit anyone who wants to be swept up into its dark story for about the same time as a typical movie.