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.

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.