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Pioneer of Chinese video art movement comes to NGV

Wang Gongxin’s immersive multi-channel videos capture our senses and play with our perceptions of modern China at the NGV.

14 Apr 2014 12:00

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Relating – it’s about Ya 2010, nine channel video installation, 60 min. Collection of the artist © Wang Gongxin

Video art continues to be popular among curators, and has featured heavily in gallery programming this year. Last month Julianna Engberg’s 19^th Biennale of Sydney opened, surprising viewers with how heavily weighted it was towards the moving image. Later this month the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) will present Light moves – Australian contemporary video art (18 April – 20 July) drawn from gallery’s holdings collection over the past 40-years. And ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) was ranked second highest among Australian galleries in an international survey on gallery attendance for 2013.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina