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.
A performative sound essay in response to Florence Foster Jenkins, whose “[bad] performances actually make concrete the general expectations that is had in ways of hearing what we already know,” as part of a research-exhibition on being out of tune. Curated and organized by Chris Reeves.
Includes bad jokes, baddest bitches, speaking backwards, speaking forwards, rage arias, beat drops, sucking sounds and sounds that suck.
