Maya Dunietz, Calder-Picasso

<p>Episode No. 526 features artist <strong>Maya Dunietz</strong> and historian <strong>Jordana Mendelson.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.mayadunietz.com/">Maya Dunietz</a> is currently in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha in preparation for a 13,000-square-foot exhibition that will open May 5, 2022. Dunietz's exhibition will foreground the physicality of sound through a series of installations, including a 17-piano installation that builds on her 2021 work <a href= "http://www.mayadunietz.com/five-chilling-mammoths-2021-1"><em>Five Chilling Mammoths</em></a> and on 2016's <a href= "http://www.mayadunietz.com/new-gallery-70"><em>Trembling Piano</em></a>. This segment was taped before a live audience at the Bemis.</p> <p>Dunietz  is a composer, performer, and sound artist whose work investigates the nexus of music, visual art, performance and technologies. She has created exhibitions, site-specific sound installations and performances for the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Reykjavik Arts Festival, the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, the Centre Pompidou and the Botanical Gardens in Jerusalem.</p> <p>Mendelson discusses her essay, "The 'Mild' Manifesting of Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder in Protest Ephemera and International Art Expositions during the Postwar" in the catalogue for <a href= "https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/calder-picasso">"Calder-Picasso"</a> which is at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston through January 30, 2022. Mendelson is the director of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University.</p>