Weitian Liu is a writer, editor and critic with an academic background in art history, history of photography, and contemporary art theory. His PhD research is concerned with the notion of the critical in contemporary art and its relation to questions of subjectivity. He is a co-founding editor of Qilu Criticism, established in 2021. His ongoing practice-research has taken the form of NEW-NEW-OLD-NEW-NEW, a fictional school of practice founded in May 2025.
Weitian Liu is currently the 2021 Asymmetry PhD Scholar in ‘Advanced Practices’ at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Prof. Irit Rogoff is a theorist, curator and organiser who writes at the intersections of the critical, the political and contemporary arts practices. Irit is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, a department she founded in 2002. Her work across a series of new 'think tank' PhD programmes at Goldsmiths is focusing on the possibility of exchanging knowledges via professional practices, self-generated forums, academic institutions and individual enthusiasms. Publications include “Museum Culture” (1997), “Terra-Infirma – Geography’s Visual Culture” (2001), "Unbounded - Limits Possibilities" (2008) and forthcoming "Looking Away - Participating Singularities, Ontological Communities" (2010). Curatorial work includes "De-Regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman" (2005-8) ACADEMY (2006) and "Summit - Non-Aligned Initiatives in education Culture" (2007).