Maya Dunietz: Root of Two is a 144-page catalog that accompanies an exhibition of the same title, on view at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2022. Designed by Omnivore, this catalogue traverses the career of experimental musician and composer Maya Dunietz, unveiling her multidisciplinary practice that has spanned performance, composition, sculpture and installation, avant-garde theatrical performance, and choir work. Edited by Rachel Adams, Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center, contributors include Rachel Adams, Chris Cook, Maya Dunietz, Michael Pisaro, Galit Eilat, Ariel Ashbel, Chen Tamir, Sergio Edelsztein, Ran Kasmy Ilan, and Keren Rosenbaum.
Maya Dunietz: Root of Two was awarded the bronze Independent Publisher's Book award in performing arts for 2023.
“As a composer, sound artist, and musician, Dunietz explores notions related to psychoacoustics, resonance, and the embodied experience, which changes depending on an object’s location within a given architecture and the viewer's proximity to it. Root of Two collaborates with visitors, who feel their influence as their movement through the galleries and their engagement with each work has an effect on the space and the sound. The movement of sound between the interior and exterior of each designated gallery creates links between the bodies moving through and spending time in these spaces. Following in the footsteps of those who came before her as well as expanding upon her own practice as a visual artist, 4 Dunietz’s work has grown in dimensionality. Root of Two is both a complex introduction to the sensory impression of sound and an expansion for the artist in terms of materiality and scale.” - Rachel Adams, RESONANCE AND REVELATION: MAYA DUNIETZ AND THE SUBJECTIVITY OF SOUND
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