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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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I JUST NEED ANOTHER MINUTE

Video Installation
600 minutes - ongoing

New Work
SAIC Galleries
Chicago, US, June 2021

︎https://youtu.be/kDNCBK0ZxbY
(4 min trailer)

What happens to our attention in the span of a minute? Of a lifetime? This project consists of one-minute, hand-held shots documenting my ongoing habit of walking to the same place at the same time of day — Lake Michigan, late afternoon. This 600 minute long video considers landscape as a set of processes in need of sustained attention, through a more patient, enduring, and minute form. Ultimately, this work aims to turn our exploitative relationship to nature into an explorative one.