Speed Skating is a show of solidarity with the Taiwanese athletes who were forced to attend the Olympics with the name “Chinese Taipei” instead of the country’s true name “Taiwan”. As the beacon of democracy in Asia with over 23 million citizens, Taiwan has been a source of fear for the expansionist Chinese government. As China has steadily cracked down on Hong Kong’s freedoms, effectively demonstrating the bankruptcy of the “one country two systems” approach, the CCP has taken increasingly aggressive military measures, including flying fighter jets near the island. The threat of war and invasion looms over the island. —

This work is part of the Beijing 2022 Collection, the first NFT project from Chinese dissident artist Badiucao. The collection consists of a series of 10 protest pieces, created as part of a campaign to raise awareness among the global art community about the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the weaponization of global sports events by authoritarian regimes to conceal their human rights abuses. The collection was initially released at the New World Center’s Soundscape Park as part of the 2021 Oslo Freedom Forum in Miami. It was subsequently canvased at various locations around Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2021. Learn more at http://beijing2022.art

This collection is a collective act of censorship resistance and fundraiser that will donate 10% of proceeds to the Art in Protest Residency, a collaboration between the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and the Human Rights Foundation.

作品【速滑】是对台湾运动员的声援，他们被迫以“中华台北”的名义参加奥运会，而不是这个新兴民主国家的真名“台湾”。作为拥有超过 2300 万公民的亚洲民主灯塔，台湾一直是中国政府的眼中钉肉中刺。随着中国不断打压香港的自由，宣告“一国两制”做法的破产，中共采取了越来越激进的军事措施，包括在该岛附近飞行战斗机。战争和入侵的威胁笼罩着这座岛屿。

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