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MAYA NGUYEN


MN is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist with a focus on sound performance and diasporic making. She gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily life into open-ended works. These often take the shape of performance lecture, sound installation, movement, and video.
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SEA LEVELS RISING


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.