Displaced is a participatory performance tracing a modern Pandora embodied as an immigrant woman navigating the New World. Through her journey, the work explores displacement as both physical and psychological terrain — mapping the tension between belonging, identity, and cultural memory. Her relationship to the walls of Pandora’s box becomes one of constraint and rupture: boundaries that entangle, fracture, and ultimately release the unseen social constructs that separate us. The installation employs motion sensors and projection mapping to merge ancient mythology with contemporary questions of gender, migration, and the architectures that shape perception.
The performance positions myth as a living framework for examining collective displacement — how the act of crossing thresholds, both geographic and emotional, reshapes one’s understanding of home. As participants move within the installation, their presence alters the projections, transforming the box into a responsive organism. In this merging of myth and interface, Displaced becomes a ritual of empathy and emergence — a space where the boundaries of self and other dissolve, and where exile becomes a gesture toward reimagined belonging.
Artists, Directors
Pearlyn Lii Juliana Johnson
Team Maria Malmstrom (Choreographer), Cameo Lethem (Performer), Anthony Stein (Physical), Jeff Park (Code), Joy Matashi (MUA)