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MAYA NGUYEN


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.

But no single material choice defines her practice. Instead, she works through ambiguity and interaction across borders: making a commitment of not committing to just one side, but to a multiplicity of sides; to the mix of different sound channels; to the touch of different bodies. Through these material interactions, she puts power relations in action, focusing on the domestic sphere, colonial histories, movement geographies, and the relating between human and natural worlds.



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POP ROCK


"POP ROCK" is an experiment in playful, ephemeral, non-imposing encounters with natural environments. It documents the sound of a natural rock formation on the edge of Mietoinen Bay in Southwest Finland covered with pop rocks -- a manufactured sugar candy that creates tiny bursting fizzy sensations and comes in various colors.

The pink pop rocks visually camouflage into the naturally pink-colored rocks and create their distinctive popping sounds that make up the sound of the video (together with the crowds of geese that come to rest at the Bay on their spring migration route). In the end, pop rocks fizzle out and disappear within a day, leaving no enduring trace of the encounter beyond this video.