Following the workshop and open archive on 'Digital Heritage: 40 Years of Video Art in Germany and Hong Kong' in December 2006, the Goethe-Institut Hongkong continues to explore the Video Art topic in mainland China, by jointly-presenting the 'Open Archive: 40 Years of Video Art in Germany + Chinese Video Art Archive' with Vitamin Creative Space from 23 May to 21 June 2008 at the Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou.

The open archive focuses on saving, maintaining and mediating the cultural heritage of Video Art, which has become one of the most influential art forms of the 20th century. Important video works from the past 40 years in Germany and China are shown at the open archive at Vitamin Creative Space. The works from Germany curated by Wulf Herzogenrath were previously shown at the ZKM Center for Art, Media Karlsruhe and the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf and the Goethe-Institut Hongkong, among them videos by Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys, Rebecca Horn, Christian Jankowski and Nam June Paik. Works from China, curated by Hu Fang from Vitamin Creative Space, include those by Cao Fei, Feng Mengbo, Kan Xuan, Li Yongbin, Lu Chunsheng, Tseng Yu-Chin, Tsui Kuang-Yu, and Xu Zhen, to explore the the possibility of Chinese Video Art Archive.

The present booklet provides a list of DVDs featured in the archive.