Exhibition | Asia Pacific Video

FREE ADMISSION | GALLERY OPEN: Wednesday to Sunday 10.30am – 3.30pm | Closed Monday, Tuesday & Public Holidays

Asia Pacific Video focusses on performance, experimentation and theatricality in video art from the 1960s to the present. From the most basic use of a hand-held video camera to elaborate and theatrical productions, video has also allowed artists to explore and communicate their social conditions, cultures and ideas on ever-evolving screen-based platforms.

Artists in the Asia Pacific embraced the new possibilities of video as an art form as early as the sixties, and the region is now home to some of the world’s leading moving image artists.

Asia Pacific Video includes works by Neha Choksi (India), Chim↑Pom (Japan), Takahiko Iimura (Japan), Salote Tawale (Fiji/Australia), Junebum Park (South Korea), Nathan Pohio (New Zealand) and Yang Zhenzhong (China).

Image: Takahiko Iimura / Japan/United States b.1937 / Performance: AIUEONN Six Features (still) 1994 / Videotape: 8:00 minutes, colour, stereo / The James C. Sourris AM Collection. Purchased 1999 with funds from James C. Sourris through the QAG Foundation Fund / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Takahiko Iimura