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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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BETWEEN LAND AND LAND IS SEA


Performance for Live and Archive Sounds

Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
Artist Residency Talk
Berlin, Germany July 2023

Manzi Art Space
Hanoi, Vietnam Aug 2023

A performance of family youtube videos, news reports on migration, inaudible language, wind, and feedback that navigates oceans as archives of submerged voices, lost stories, and ongoing intercontinental entanglements.