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(Not) Just a Historical Document: Hong Kong-Taiwan Video Art 1980-1990s
07 Apr, 2018 - 03 Jun, 2018
Video art arose in Taiwan and Hong Kong around the same time in the early 1980s. Artists employed media that allowed convenient filming and immediate broadcasting to actively intervene in social issues. Comparing to the narrative films and documentaries produced in Hong Kong and Taiwan around the same period, the video art form that combined creativity and political statements did not catch too much attention, and because rather disadvantaged and marginal. Taking a retrospective look on the video art in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1980s and 1990s, the unique sensibility and insights demonstrated about historical incidents, in fact, introduce an opportunity to revisit and reflect upon the history given the tense political situation among Hong Kong, Taiwan and China nowadays.
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Video art arose in Taiwan and Hong Kong around the same time in the early 1980s. Artists employed media that allowed convenient filming and immediate broadcasting to actively intervene in social issues. Comparing to the narrative films and documentaries produced in Hong Kong and Taiwan around the same period, the video art form that combined creativity and political statements did not catch too much attention, and because rather disadvantaged and marginal. Taking a retrospective look on the video art in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1980s and 1990s, the unique sensibility and insights demonstrated about historical incidents, in fact, introduce an opportunity to revisit and reflect upon the history given the tense political situation among Hong Kong, Taiwan and China nowadays.
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