MN is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist with a focus on critical sound performance and diasporic making. She gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily encounters into open-ended compositions. These often take the shape of performance lectures, sound installations, movement works, and videos.
But no single material choice defines her practice. Instead, she works through ambiguity and interaction across borders: making a commitment of not committing to just one side, but to a multiplicity of sides; to the mix of different sound channels; to the touch of different bodies. Through these material interactions, she exposes power relations inherent in human interaction and the environments that facilitate these interactions, focusing on the domestic sphere, colonial histories, migratory routes, and the relating between the human and the natural world.
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.
