The Interruption and Reverberation of the Video Art: An Overview of Video Art of the Annual of Contemporary Art of China (2023)

By combing 329 video art exhibitions and documents in the archives of Chinese contemporary art in 2023, this paper reviews the development context and theme exploration of video art in this year, especially focusing on the diversity of video art in art creation and display. In multiple exhibitions, artists continue to explore the understanding of time and movement in video art, highlighting the difference and innovation between video works and traditional film and television language. More works explore the relationship between art censorship and social change, the vulnerability of individuals to high-pressure social environments, and the structural violence behind trauma, focusing on memories, traces, and representations that have been clearly revealed by social issues over the past few years. In addition, multiple group exhibitions present the social dilemmas and cultural reflections of different regions in the context of globalization, and the international exchange of video art has re-emerged. The new exhibitions and creations of contemporary video art in 2023 provide researchers with rich perspectives and materials for reflection in terms of form. and content, continuously promoting the potential and development of video art as a tool for social criticism. The purpose of this review is to reflect and summarize the influence of contemporary video art in 2023 by tracing archival data, so as to provide literature reference for related research.