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MAYA NGUYEN


Based in Chicago, b. 1996, VN/RUS, Interdisciplinary Performer. Nguyen incorporates disparate (and often clashing) material sources into forms that remain conceptually indeterminate, such as performance lectures, sound improvisation, and participatory sculptural interventions. Her favored materials include: speech fragments, mistranslations, painful sounds, urban recordings, sounds imitating nature sounds, breast pump parts, internet debris, and videos of daily life.
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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