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.

It is the art that gives the area visibility, importance and a sense of collective selfhood.