A non-commercial public archive of Qiming Liu’s art and scholarly research.

Archive Statement ↓
AN OPEN WORK

The Living Echoes

Your words meet an independent AI voice and take shape as writing and an image. Each contribution changes the shared work and opens another possible encounter.

Enter the Work

Co-creation is public. Before submitting, you must consent to publication and long-term retention of your submission and its generated results in the work’s public archive. Private correspondence ↗

The public canvas

Reading the archive…

Reading the public canvas…

Public archive ↗

Words → images → a public archive

Archive Statement

A non-commercial public art archive.

Qiming Liu is a contemporary artist whose practice is grounded in social critique. This website is a non-commercial public archive of his art and scholarly research, open to sustained viewing, discussion and study.

Painting, performance, video and independent art projects are given equal standing in the art archive. Parallel Research is a dedicated space for presenting the results of Qiming Liu’s own research, with sources clearly identified. Artworks, biographical records and signed critical writing retain their distinct identities.

About Qiming Liu ↗

RESEARCH BY QIMING LIU

Parallel Research

A dedicated space for presenting the results of Qiming Liu’s own research, alongside the art archive.

View Parallel Research ↗
2015ESSAY

From Social Reciprocity to Play: A Sociological Reading of Qiming Liu’s Red Envelope

Liao Liao reads the one-fen electronic red envelope through the changing relationships between social reciprocity, exchange, equality, and play.

2015ESSAY

The Meaning of Images in Qiming Liu’s Social Media Circle

Liao Liao examines fragmentation, shared identities, visual consumption, and the distance between an image and the event it represents.