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

WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO YOUR DATE

Performative Sound Installation

Open Studio with Do Trong Quy
Hanoi VN, Sept 2025

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Jack Straw New Media Gallery
Seattle US, Sept 2025

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Graphic Score, Clamshells, Wine Glasses, Water, Metal Spoon, Amplified Aluminium Sheet

A metal sheet amplified with a contact microphone invites you to make sound through touch. A graphic score guides you on how to use ordinary dinner objects. Each object comes in a pair, as a way to welcome several people to the table.