Artist and curator Việt Lê delivers a powerful performance lecture on trauma, religion and Asian identity in the panel on gender and sexuality in Asian American art at IMU UR2 in 2022. On October 28–29, 2022, Stanford University hosted IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America, bringing together artists, curators, and scholars to rethink and reimagine the histories and futures of artists of Asian descent.

Analyzing a performance art piece by Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano titled "Rope Piece," Vivian Huang reflects on Asian American sociality and life. Using the performance piece, Huang explains documentation as a process that both divulges but also withholds information; she also critiques the idea of Asian inscrutability as a modality of inquiry into Asian and alien sociality in the US. 

Charting incomplete U.S. archives from the Cold War made secret through redacted U.S. State documents, Vang shows how Hmong refugees tell their stories in ways that exist separately from narratives of U.S. empire and that cannot be traditionally archived. In so doing, Vang outlines a methodology for writing histories that foreground refugee epistemologies despite systematic attempts to silence those histories. 

Lee examines examines the music, video, performances, and social media presence of singer-songwriter Mitski, and poet and writer Ocean Vuong, to consider how the act of staying in, rather than going (or coming) out, gives shape to Asian American asociality. Lee responds to the idea of “Asian American asociality” which speaks to how Asian Americans have been racially figured as a problem for and of sociality, as assimilated, yet socially isolated, unrelatable subjects.