The Saturday morning Rage ritual is no longer the pass time of music fanatics and visual arts students looking for ideas. The Queensland Art Gallery has taken the video clip from the weekend viewing time slots and hung it on the wall with Video Hits, an exhibition of film clips and art exploring the rich and complex relationship between music, film and art. “There has been a recognition of video clips as an art form for sometime.” Nicholas Chambers, co-curator of Video Hits told me during a curratorial walk through of the exhibition. “The exhibition includes artists who are accustomed to working in a gallery context and music video directors whose work is rarely seen outside of the distribution network of mainstream television. Video Hits…
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