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MAYA NGUYEN



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.



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SEA LEVELS RISING


Stereo Sound, 02:06min

Mouse Magazine
Issue 2
Oct 2020

︎︎︎https://www.mouse-magazine.com/siren-virus-and-other-sound-pieces/


Voices of speakers from five countries (China, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, India) most susceptible to rising sea levels are submitted to an exponentially rising high-pass filter, which only lets through signals with a frequency higher than a certain cutoff frequency. The cutoff frequency gradually rises, leaving indiscernible remnants of disparate languages in the wake of rising waves.