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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.

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 puts power relations in action, focusing on the domestic sphere, colonial histories, movement geographies, and the relating between human and natural worlds.



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SOON, MONSOON


Video 05:57min

Waveforms Festival 2020
SAIC Sound Department

︎︎︎https://youtu.be/QJY8exdrCEQ


An image is set in motion.
A moment later, the same image is set in motion.
And again, a moment later.
Until what is set in motion is not the image, but its different moments — its time.


An attempt to convey the density of Hanoi’s tropical urban architecture through the fugal interplay of image.