Note: This article is an exclusive review by HSU Fang-Tze on the artworks in the 5th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition. She scrutinizes the writings of Ling-Ching Chiang, Jun-Jieh Wang, Huang-Chen Tang, and Chi-Ming Lin, traces back to the 1970s when the term lu-ying yi-shu (video art) had already been used in the Taiwanese art writings, and consequently deduces the difference between lu-ying yi-shu and lu-xiang yi-shu (which also means video art). She subsequently connects the above-mentioned to the context concerning the first Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition co-curated by Yung-Hsien Chen and Sean C.S. Hu in 2005. She further suggests that Negative Horizon, the 5th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition extends its frame beyond the instrumentalist sense of video art, and mentions how the participating artists and filmmakers attend to this medium and its extended engagement with social memory, and also manifests how to takes video’s role as a discursive site.
