Maya Dunietz: Root of Two 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, other contributors include 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 accompanies an exhibition of the same title, on view at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2022.

Maya Dunietz is a musician and artist based in Israel. Dunietz creates sculptures, installations and performances, combining classical singing, instrumentation, and recording techniques with digital technologies and a varied array of materials. She merges disciplines into a single malleable mass. Her works are influenced by their spatial context; furthermore, they invite audiences to listen carefully to the echoes and vibrations created by their interaction with the installed objects. Her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries such as Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018); FracPaca Museum, Marseille (2018); CCA, Tel Aviv (2016); Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2014); Arnolfini Center For Contemporary Art, Bristol (2013), among others.

Rachel Adams is the Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Her areas of interest are varied but focus on creating meaningful connections for artists. Projects tend to include crossover between contemporary art and architecture, performance and video and new media practices. Adams holds an MA in Exhibition and Museum Studies from San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Chris Cook, Executive Director of Bemis Center since 2015, guides and shapes the organization’s vision while leading Bemis’s operational and core programmatic activities. He brings to the organization twenty years of curatorial and non-profit management experience. Since graduating in 2002 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a master’s degree in art history, theory, and criticism, Cook has organized over sixty exhibitions.

Ariel Efraim Ashbel is a performance maker. He is a graduate of the school of visual theater Jerusalem (2006) and holds a BA in philosophy and history from Tel Aviv University (2011). Weaving together a wide array of historical, political, theoretical, and pop culture references, his pieces are interdisciplinary compositions at the intersection of theater, dance, music, and installation. He also collaborates as a performer, dramaturg and light designer.

Sergio Edelsztein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1956. In 1995 he founded the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, which he directed until 2018. He is now a freelance curator, writer and publisher.

Galit Eilat is a writer and curator. Since 2018, she is the director of Meduza Foundation. Additionally, she was also the inaugural artistic director of the Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne and the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon, as well as co-founding several platforms such as; Maarav, an online magazine; the Mobile Archive, and Liminal Spaces. Eilat was the 2017-2018 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism at Bard College, New York.

Keren Rosenbaum is a composer, conductor, performer, group facilitator, and creator of Reflexive Music. She began her music education at the age of seven. She moved to The Hague at the age of twenty-one to study composition, electronic music and music education in the Tel Aviv Academy with Arik Shapira & Leon Schidlowsky, in the Royal Academy with Louis Andriessen & Gilius van Bergeijk and completed her Masters in Brooklyn College under Amnon Walman & Tania Leon.

Chen Tamir is a curator and writer living in Tel Aviv. She is the former Curator at the Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv. She was listed by Artnet as one of twenty-five women curators on the rise and by Artslant as one of fifteen curators to watch. She champions experimental mediums such as installation, video, and performance that shed light on how the personal and the social realms are inherently intertwined. Often working with research-based artists, she gravitates towards complex work that explores how technology and globalization impact our daily lives.

Ran Kasmy-Ilan is the Director and Chief Curator of the Herzliya Artists’ Residence. Kasmy-Ilan graduated from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and has over a decade of experience creating and leading multidisciplinary projects, socially engaged art, and informal education. As of 2015, Kasmy Ilan serves as director and chief curator of the Herzliya Artists’ Residence. The Herzliya Artists’ Residence is a creative and constantly-changing space that supports the creation, production, display and distribution of contemporary art.

Michael Pisaro-Liu is a guitarist and composer and a long-time member of the Wandelweiser collective. While, like other members of Wandelweiser, Pisaro-Liu is known for pieces of long duration with periods of silence, in the past fifteen years his work has branched out in many directions, including work with field recording, electronics, improvisation and ensembles of very different kinds of instrumental constitution.

Omnivore is a 3-person, female-owned, graphic design studio located in Brooklyn, New York; Portland, Oregon; and Los Angeles, California. They are 2nd generation Asian-Americans, working mothers, design educators, small business owners, food lovers, justice seekers, and friends. Omnivore is founding partners Alice Ching and Karen Hsu and partner Julie Cho.