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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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sound essay

SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC TO MY EARS


Performance for scratchy objects, porcelain, styrofoam, foley, rubble, painful sounds, and sounds of pain. (45:00min)

Comfort Station
Chicago,US March 2024

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, US Nov 2024

︎︎︎https://youtu.be/r3kz9dsisyw

︎︎︎https://youtu.be/yPrAAlPDGps

A performative sound essay that asks: what is the sound of pain? It works through the relationship of sound to physical pain, weaving in and out of the realms of medicine, environmental crisis, war, the female body, and psychoacoustics.