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MAYA NGUYEN


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.



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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.