Asia Pacific Video Exhibition

15 February - 15 April

A TOURING EXHIBITION DEVELOPED BY THE QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY | GALLERY OF MODERN ART

Produced in conjunction with QAGOMA’s flagship exhibition series The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, this exhibition gives Cairns audiences the opportunity to experience a diversity of video works from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Collection.

Artists in the Asia Pacific were quick to embrace the new possibilities of video as it emerged as an art form in the early sixties, and the region is now home to some of the world’s leading moving image artists. From the most basic use of a hand-held video camera to elaborate and theatrical productions, video has also allowed artists in the region to explore and communicate their social conditions, cultures and ideas on ever-evolving screen-based platforms.

The exhibition highlights artists experimenting with video as an art form, capturing bodily actions and performative practices, creating intersections between contemporary art and other screen and film cultures and developing new ways to explore materials, objects and environments.

To coincide with this exhibition, QAGOMA is also presenting Asia Pacific Contemporary, Three Decades of APT next door at Cairns Art Gallery.

Image detail: Joyce Ho / Taiwan b.1983 / Overexposed memory (still) 2015 / Single-channel video: 5:00 minutes, colour, sound, ed.3/5 / Purchased 2018. QAGOMA Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Joyce Ho