Weitian Liu is a writer and researcher based in London. Weitian’s work spans photography history and contemporary Chinese art criticism. He holds an MLitt in Art History and an MPhil in History of Photography from the University of St Andrews. Weitian co-founded QILU Criticism, contributed to Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism, Glasgow Women’s Library (2021), and is developing a monograph on documentary photography in 1980s rural China. His criticism appears in LEAP and ArtReview China.
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).