Xiaonan Li, Shuyuan Tian

DOI: 10.64212/DDWW1339

Abstract
This paper takes China’s earliest video artwork 30×30 and the early works of video artist Zhang Peili (張培力) as a foundation to study and explore the relationship between the origin of Chinese video art and the modern art movement in the 1980s. With the language of compulsive repetition Zhang Peili shifted his artistic creations from painting to video. The logic of conceptual art was pivotal in the early development of video art, and was further enriched through the exploration of the media language of video art, becoming the cornerstone for contemporary Chinese video art.

Keywords

Video art, ’85 Movement, compulsive repetition, conceptual art