At ONE, three artists-in-residence, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Vinhay Keo, and Pamila Matharu were invited to develop new works in response to the archive. Accompanying these works is Satrang at 25: Queer South Asian Diaspora(s) in Context, an exhibition examining the history of Satrang, an organization supporting queer South Asian communities in Southern California and placing its evolution in the context of broader queer diasporic histories. Pamila Matharu contextualizes these networks in relation to the Desh Pardesh (1988 - 2001) festival in Toronto. Starting in the summer of 2022, the exhibition also will be digitally hosted by SAADA. The work of Los Angeles-based artists Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai (in collaboration with Bitter Party) and Vinhay Keo are on view at ONE (Stranger Intimacy II) and USC Pacific Asia Museum (Stranger Intimacy I). (Please note that this exhibition at PAM will close on May 8.) Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai and Keo’s work investigates the remnants of embodied history, migration, exile, and queerness. These artists draw from family narratives and stories of immigration from Thailand and Cambodia respectively, creating works that navigate and question these lineages. Both artists aim to challenge and extend ideas around borders and boundaries, notions of queerness, transnationalism, and diaspora. Borrowing from Nayan Shah’s text Stranger Intimacy (2011) and building on this concept, this project places art and stories produced by those who may be seen as otherwise strangers alongside one another to investigate the connections and anxieties that may emerge from the intimacy of bringing them together. Taken together, this exhibition interrogates what it means to explore one’s past from the present and how to balance the promises and the limitations of the archive. Please join for a closing tour and reception on May 27.