“另一种讲述”是中国艺术家的一次影像艺术展览，这些艺术家在众多途径中拓展了这一艺术类型。这次展览也许被同时看做是一场当下的评定和对历史的回顾。同样地，这只是这种艺术形式的某部分历史，也是其他中国艺术家正在做的其他艺术形式的异种实践，比如油画，雕塑，行为和摄影。没有一种主流风格或是绘画美学可以被定性为“中国的”，中国绘画集合了所有的国际性艺术实践，它的国际化特质正说明了这一点。同样地，中国的影像艺术和在英国，美国或是其他国家一样多元化。这次展览的副标题也需要一些解释：它暗示了对中国的影像艺术的迅速发展的惊讶和吃惊；这个副标题不仅仅在形容影像艺术的多样化，也是在形容中国艺术家们的高水平作品。

展览名称“另一种讲述”说得很明白,中国的影像艺术是一个特别多元的范畴，它在极其迅速的成长，变得更加复杂和精巧。这次展览中精心挑选的作品强有力地证明了这一点。艺术家们正在扩展影像艺术形式和观念的语言，他们方法只说是令人惊叹，或者不可思议。

Alternative Narrative is an exhibition of video art by Chinese artists who have expanded the genre in numerous ways. And though the exhibition may seem as both an up-to-date assessment as well as looking back to its emergence, by the same token, it is only a fractured historiography for this art form is as much a heterogeneous practice as other genres that Chinese artists are working in today including painting, sculpture, performance, and photography, for example. There is not one dominant style or painting aesthetic that can be characterized as Chinese, for the global nature of Chinese painting underscores this as it rubs up against all forms of international practices. Similarly, then, the state of Chinese video art is as diversified as any of its counterparts in the UK, US, or any other country.  The subtitle of the exhibition also needs some clarification as well: it alludes to nothing short of astonishment if not unimaginable how quickly video art in China has exponentially advanced; and the subtitle is not only descriptive for the sheer diversity of video as well as the high level of accomplishment of its Chinese practitioners.

As the exhibition Alternative Narrative makes quite clear, Chinese video art is an extremely diversified field that is only exponentially growing and subsequently getting more complex and sophisticated. The selected, albeit strong, examples presented in this exhibition underscore this. Already artists are working and expanding the formal and conceptual vocabularies of video art in ways that can only be characterized as astonishing if not…well…unimaginable.