Curating Chinese Landscape Painting as Immersive Art: Intermedia and Gallery Film Approaches

This chapter argues that Chinese landscape painting can be exhibited as an immersive art to engage the audience in a spiritual and conscious experience. In his curated exhibition “Endless Peaks” (2020–2021), Yang Fudong uses an intermedia approach, and adopts a gallery film strategy that combines scattered vanishing-point perspective, multiple screens, and montage to create an immersive experience that allows the audience to engage with Chinese landscape painting in three dimensions. The exhibition can be viewed both from the perspective of the handscroll or that of the gallery film. The artist’s methods demonstrate an innovative and unique curatorial approach that contributes to contem¬porary understanding of Chinese landscape painting as a manifestation of immersive art.