James Nguyen
“Porniniso”
James Nguyen’s Porniniso is a playful work on intimacy, isolation and desire. Bringing together a long stream of opening credit sequences and soundtracks from pornography, Nguyen’s work reflects on the feeling when the internet becomes our whole universe, including for sex.
James Nguyen's interdisciplinary practice moves between live and online performance, video, drawing and installation. He often makes work in collaboration with family and friends, inviting them to respond to specific sites using readily available materials. Processes of research and conversation play key roles in his practice, which examines strategies of decolonisation, while also interrogating the politics of family history, displacement and diaspora.