![]() For example, Nicolaou talks directly to visitors in her video, sharing objects connected to her family's displacement and her own migration to the U.S. The opening event, along with the exhibition’s two interactive works, emphasizes the curators’ focus on active participation by shifting the visitor experience from only observational to experiential., Evangelou explained. It features a performance by Bhandari, Lin, and Ramirez, followed by a highly-structured roundtable discussion with the artists, curators and special guests. Central to the project is the opening event on May 31 from 6:30-9 p.m. Miller and Evangelou began collaborating on the exhibition when Evangelou was a Gallatin Global Faculty in Residence during the 2021-22 academic year. The exhibition features filmmaker/artist Suneil Sanzgiri, Cypriot writer and filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou, Yemeni American visual artist, writer and musician Ibi Ibrahim, Iranian interdisciplinary artist Tara Homasi, visual artists and anthropologists Margaux Fitoussi and Myriam Amri, and the trio of Anooj Bhandari, Chan Lin (Gallatin ‘13), and Val Ramirez, who are members of the New York Neo-Futurists. “Through the various modes of looking and thinking-through demonstrated in the videos, installations and performance, the exhibition makes clear that a diaspora is simultaneously a looking back to the place of origin, a looking out to a different world, and a looking inward as they define and redefine themselves within the new place.” For this exhibition, we are interested in addressing the effect of this movement on the individuals and their communities,” Miller said. “As members of their respective diasporic communities, these artists each work from a place of displacement. The exhibition explores the blurring of past and present and the trauma experienced by the artists, who for many reasons no longer live in their home countries. Nine artists based in the New York metro area who come from Iran, India, Cyprus, Tunisia, Yemen, China, and Mexico grapple with the impossibility of being in two places and times at once. New York University’s Gallatin Galleries examines the trauma and displacement of involuntary migration in Diasporic Tremors, an exhibition of video and performance art curated by Ellada Evangelou and Keith Miller.
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