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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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WELL-OILED MACHINE


Yes Projects Group Exhibition
Chicago, US 2026   

Fourth Petal Exhibition
Tossarrose Collective
Chicago, US 2025

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A performance using sound recordings of the artist giving birth in hospital, including her voice, her birthing team, and hospital machines. 


What happens when a body is taken for a well-oiled machine and a train is taken for a living being? Between a human voice imitating a train and hospital recordings creating a rhythmic track, "Well-Oiled Machine" plays on rigidity, rhythm, mechanisms, and animism.