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SPECIAL: CHRISTIAN FREI - A GENIUS AS A FILMMAKER

"A filmmaker must tell the truth!"
Authenticity, truth
and a moral compass are the most important tools for a documentary filmmaker. Especially when it comes to questions of morality and ethic you have to make tough desicions during your career. We were talking about the meaning of thruth and honesty as a filmmaker and human being and how young filmmakers must follow their own path in order to suceed in the filmworld. JP

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PETER SLOTERDIJK - NEW WAYS OF THINKING

Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most important philosphers and thinker of our time.
In 2013 he published his important essay "Nietzsche Apostel". For him Friedrich Nietzsche represents "nothing short of a 'catastrophe in the history of language' - a new evangelist for a linguistics of narcissistic jubilation." We were talking about narcissism in art and culture and why it is imoprtant to avoid it. AB

FILM

THE NEW GERMAN FILM

Since the time of the great filmmakers like Fassbinder, Herzog and Wenders the German Film struggled with its reputation of beeing "overintellectualized" for the last decades. Now, the German Film is back with fresh and exciting new talents who will blow your mind with unconventional storytelling. FG  

THE BADDYFORUM ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE PRESENT

"Revolution and Ai Weiwei are twins. But which one is more valuable to art history? When we say ‘Ai’ we mean ‘Revolution’! And when we say ‘Revolution’ we mean ‘Ai’!"

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That’s how great 1920’s Russian Revolution poet Vladimir Mayakovsky would probably have put it today – provided he knew exceptional artist and taboo breaker Ai Weiwei. His activities have made him an avant-garde icon and simultaneously have returned art to its revolutionary character. He claims the right to artistic freedom and disrespectfully breaks all conventions and rules of the art scene in order to systematically deprive it of its foundations. We are following the uninhibited maverick in the wake of the wildfire of her revolution.

Baddy Forum Band "Vive la Révolution" examines the topic’s diverse aesthetic aspects from historical, philosophical, political and artistic points of view. Chantal Mouffe, one of the most renowned political theorists of our time, has been acquainted with Ai for many years. In her agonistic approach to critical, artistic practices she exemplifies for us the concepts of „critical art“ and their significance for society. Art historian Valérie Hammerbacher scrutinises the rebel’s radical and revolutionary potential – from Ai’s scandalous performance in Vienna‘s MuMoK to his subversive intervention at London’s Tate Modern. Meanwhile, the ‘Ai Wave’ has also reached Asia: on the very first few pages, Filipino art historian Louise Anne D. Marcelino painstakingly dissects the celebrity cult surrounding Ai and simultaneously explains the artist’s very own criticism of it. Further on, art scene journalist Adrianna Braun is taking us on a journey into the chic world of Ai, namely to the Armory show in New York, where Braun is granted an audience by art pope and star curator Robert Storr. And we also are sipping champagne with her at the classy parties of Venice’s Biennale and are joining her for a look behind the curtains at Sotheby's. In Berlin, we meet State Minister for Culture, Mr. Neumann. Last but not least you can look forward to two exclusive interviews with the artist, in which the art scene’s enfant terrible opens up his heart to us about art, money and power.

As always, Baddyforum International is not just an ordinary art journal, but a publication that entices creative folks, board members and designers alike to invest a big chunk of their respective budgets in it. Because it’s a cult book.

With warm regards and a revolutionary salute,

Your Baddyforum team

 

BIENNALE SPECIAL

BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

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Amongst Closest Friends: Kasper König, Roman Abramowich, Olga, Bruce Nauman, Liam Gillick, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Ute Meta Bauer - it's showtime folks!

BERLIN BIENNALE

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Eye to Eye with Art: Everyone’s Deeply Moved!

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Insights, enthralling interviews and important information regarding the current discourse.
Every volume contains the most important topics on contemporary art happenings in the form of comprehensive reports, monographies, interviews and exhibition tours!



LATEST ISSUE

REBELLIOUS, CRITICAL AND OPEN!

BADDYFORUM International
No. 219 Vive la révolution!
English, German;
192 pages with over 400 illustrations
Flexi-cover; 21 x 17 cm
Release: Quaterly

UPCOMING

MAKE ART NOT ART

Among other:
DOCUMENTA 14
BURDA MUSEUM BADEN-BADEN
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

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Culture

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„Everyone’s merely talking about revolution – we make it.“
Excerpt from: Critical Artistic Practices
by Chantal Mouffe

“... the ‘bad boy’ John Currin had been domesticated at the sight of Baddy Dolly Jane’s packed sexual power. ”
Excerpt from: Artistic Disobedience
by Valérie Hammerbacher

 


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