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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.
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ROCKS


"ROCKS" 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.