Diane Severin Nguyen: WAR SONGS (MOCA Focus)

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By Alex Sloane. Foreword by Ann Goldstein.

Diane Severin Nguyen (b. 1990, Carson, California; lives in New York) is a multidisciplinary artist known for her investigations into the myriad ways images and media structure identity, power, and historical consciousness. In the artist’s first live performance work, WAR SONGS, Nguyen reinterprets anti–Vietnam War protest music through the format of a concert, examining how the aesthetic forms of past resistance movements generate cultural afterlives that continue to shape our contemporary moment.

Published to accompany the artist’s MOCA Focus project, this is the fourth volume in the Nimoy Emerging Artist Publication Series (Nimoy Series), an important initiative for MOCA that provides artists with a crucial publishing opportunity at a breakthrough moment in their careers. The Nimoy Series is made possible thanks to generous support from Susan Bay Nimoy and her late husband, Leonard Nimoy, through the Nimoy Fund for Emerging Artists.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2026
Nimoy Emerging Artist Publication Series
Softcover with exposed binding and fold-out poster jacket, 84 pages
10 x 7 inches
Catalogue design by Small Graphic Project

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