Mai Bach-Ngoc Nguyen is an un/disciplined artist who has dropped the “Thi” from her name. In her investigations, she seeks to offer tonalities, a set of affects and intensities, within a shared situation. Critiquing her own institutionalized ethos, she often chooses to create spaces in which she propels reflection on what being artist means in a “given environment.” These propositions, new places, bear within themselves actions carried into the future, conveying her pointed interest in possible reverberations, power, and, above all, necessary chaos.