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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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AUDIO DISTRESS


Performance (30 min)

Summer Sound-Lab Series #1
The Capsule
Chicago,US June 2024

︎︎︎https://youtu.be/Xygu6qhq9iM



“Audio Distress” is a performance for SOS signals, maritime audio distress calls, family youtube videos, news fragments on migration, inaudible language, wind, and feedback that navigates oceans as archives of submerged calls for help.