Net Work

From The Museum of Human Achievement


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Date start 03.12.26
Date end 05.31.26
Start Time 12am
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Welcome to my Homepage presents Net Work by Lillyanne Pham.

Project Description

Net Work is an interactive digital fishing net made of anonymous voicemails. Participants were invited to leave a message for the language that remembers them… a language they are missing, forgetting, searching for, or hiding from. They could share sound, silence, or story.

Inspired by fishing villages in North Vietnam, where nets are repaired slowly and communally, the project approaches language relearning as a collective act of maintenance rather than mastery. The act of calling and recording becomes the core gesture. Each voicemail becomes a knot. Visitors drift through a woven field of voices, and when a knot is activated, it ripples outward and the net shimmers in response.

As new voicemails are added, the net grows into a living archive of longing, hesitation, return, and resilience, a space where language is held together rather than perfected alone.

Artist Bio

Lillyanne Pham (LP) is an artist who makes work with people. They create murals, workshops, games, and digital projects shaped by friendship, care, and shared memory. Their work moves across archives, gardens, and public art. It pays attention to what people carry, what they are asked to give up, and how ideas of home are made and remade through everyday relationships.

Viewing Details

On view online thru May 2026 at welcometomyhomepage.net