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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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WHISPER WIND WATER

VCCA 2022
Elastic Arts
Chicago, US May 2022
16 speakers, 8 movement improvisers

Vincom Center for Contemporary Art
Hanoi, Vietnam August 2022
4 speakers, 5 dancers

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Conference
Atlantic Center for the Arts
Florida, US March 2023
4 speakers

Northwestern University 
Chicago, US March 2023
4 speakers                                                                                      
Pivot Center for Art
Cleveland, US May 2024                         
4 speakers   
                                                                     ︎︎︎https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtX2eYM7ns&t=313s

︎︎︎https://sites.saic.edu/gradshow2023/artists/maya-nguyen/?ex=grad2

︎︎︎https://songtre.com.vn/doc-dao-trai-nghiem-trinh-dien-am-thanh-the-nghiem-%E2%80%9Ctham-thi-gio-nuoc%E2%80%9D-p23781.html


Project for multi-channel sound installations and movement improvisation. The artist creates a soundscape of her whispering voice that builds up into textures of wind and water, in response to site-specific habitats, and as a reflection on the human experience of, and effects on, nature.

Dancers create a responsive system to the sound, moving as both individual bodies and as a network of interconnected bodies. Their movements flow – imitating grass that sways gently in the wind, trees being pushed around violently by a storm, or a living sculpture that slowly breathes.

This project would not be possible without the generous help of Paige Naylor and đỗ tường linh; choreography of Jonas Sun and Minh Hải; technical expertise of phạm hải đăng, Nathan Wolek, Chris Mercer; support from various institutions; and most importantly to  performers I-chien Chen, Mallory Qiu, Paige Naylor, Veronica Salinas, Linhan Zhang, Mao Chenhui, Polina Shklovskaya, Đỗ Quốc Hưng, Nguyễn Thu Trang, Lơ Mơ, Nguyễn Minh Hằng, Long Cao.