MN is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist with a focus on sound performance and diasporic making. She gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily life into open-ended works. These often take the shape of performance lecture, sound installation, movement, and video.
An attempt to accurately close caption the sound of 4th July firework explosions through the raw material of American English. As our linguistic imagination shifts from ready-made euphemisms of "boom" and "bam" to the actual mangled sounds of violence -- "Tkpriii" and "Kra qm!" -- language itself starts to unravel in its task of representation.
