Badiucao, Chinese artist and activist, talks about the importance of NFTs for political activism, the role of China in his career as an artist, the significance of blockchain technologies to resist censorship, and much more. Show highlights:

why Badiucao became an artist and how the censorship in China brought him to NFTs
how Badiucao only learned about Tiananmen Square when he was 22 years old
why Badiucao took up work as a preschool teacher in Australia
how anonymity is important for Chinese activists for their family’s safety
the intention of Badiucao’s art and what is he trying to express
the repercussions of Badiucao’s activism
why Badicuao eventually gave up his anonymity
why Badiucao decided to issue art as NFTs and what possibilities he sees in NFTs
how Badiucao enabled people to write a message of protest in the blockchain with the launch of his NFT and how this represented the first large mass protest written into the blockchain
whether the Beijing Winter Olympics is an outrage and a disgrace for the international community and how this inspired Badiucao’s NFT collection Beijing 2022
how Niki approached the issue of the possibility of having the art taken down
how Badiucao used NFTs to help Ukraine due to the war
the reasons political art has so much value, and how NFTs enable possibilities for all political artists around the world
whether NFTs are much more than just some apes, and how learning about art is important
how to get started as a political artist and the importance to remain truthful
the significance of using power as an artist