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.
LIMBO explores such material as bone, limb, organ, abortion, personhood, mortality, and grief, through use of silhouettes, shadows, and ultrasound images.
One hand films the other hand creating shadows. The body is thus mediated by a distance between unseen source (real hand) and seen image (shadow of hand). In this distance is grief. In this distance is embodied reflection. In this distance is feminist hauntology.
