This exhibition enacts diasporic encounter in the hopes of the possibilities of assemblage as world-making and contaminated emergence. Featuring an interactive art installation by the students in Media and Performance Production 300 and thought-provoking, affect inducing, and politically imaginative works of the following artists (listed in reverse alphabetical order):

Xiaojing Yan

Rojin Shafiei

Midi Onodera

Mohammed Musallam

Faten Nastas Mitwasi

Helen Lee

Eman Haram

Richard Fung

Nazanin Alavi

Curated by: Yuting Shen, Mehvish Rather, Manal Osman, Ali Na, Faten Nastas Mitwasi, Xiao Lin, Andrew Kirby, Francesca DiBona, Esther Buckareff, and Nazanin Alavi 

"We are contaminated by our encounters; they change who we are as we make way for others. As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds—and new directions—may emerge." ~Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World