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MAYA NGUYEN



MN is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist with a focus on critical sound performance and diasporic making. She gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily encounters into open-ended compositions. These often take the shape of performance lectures, sound installations, movement works, and videos.

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 exposes power relations inherent in human interaction and the environments that facilitate these interactions, focusing on the domestic sphere, colonial histories, migratory routes, and the relating between the human and the natural world.



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ARTIST TALK


Performance of Live Sound, Recorded Sound, and Various Objects, 30 min

Maclean Center
Chicago, US Nov 2022

︎︎︎https://youtu.be/ylGL59IKhQM


A performative artist talk with voice and loudspeakers and quiet speakers and public speakers and sea levels and bottle and kettle and horn and water and invisible tea cups and collaborators and microphone and audience recordings and past works and play and ambiguity and lecture and weather forecast and fade outs

With appearances by Graciela Gonzalez & Caroline Preziosi