This talk explores how video art from the Asian diaspora complicates gendered and racialized projections of Asianness, with particular focus on the racial-gender imaginaries of post-Cold War neoliberal European. I take as my case study prominent artist Hito Steyerl’s “poor image” video practice, offering it as a form of visual sabotage that is not merely technological but also geopolitically informed. While critics have highlighted the ways in which Steyerl’s video work subverts the idea of indexical truth in the digital age, my interest lies in how the artist employs disruptive tactics in her work in ways that foreground historical demands for feminized and racialized servitude in the Asia Pacific.