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“It was also just a crazy period when it was a three- or four-channel universe, so you could get away with a whole lot of stuff because a lot of people were coming home and watching television at a certain hour. People actually sat down in the living room. They only do that now for a few events, either a football game or Nikki Glaser roasting a football player.”

The four-channel video, filmed on the cusp of the Covid lockdown in 2020, doesn’t have a set narrative, political or otherwise, at least that I can discern.

The diversity of those animated images in a new, silent four-channel video playing now on the huge, elevated screens at Moynihan Train Hall in Manhattan mirrors the mix of commuters below.

Nguyen’s four-channel video installation, “The Specter of Ancestors Becoming” tells their story poetically, and collaboratively.

It was a stunning example of engineering: aluminum suspension, four-channel Anti-Blocking System brakes, 270-horsepower mid-engine V6 with variable valve timing, as in VTEC.