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. 

The Georgian poet and multimedia artist Zurab Rtveliashvili (1967-2021) represents how poetry's power to dwell confronts authoritarianism.