Reena Katz
Reena Katz uses recorded sound, handmade electronics, wood, and live performance to create diverse listening spaces.
She was born in Guelph, Ontario in 1975, and is currently based out of Toronto. Her work explores gender, ethnicity, migration, and anachronism with a constant reference to collectivity and oral archive. Katz focuses on the use and re-use of analog sound technologies, as well as fibers and materials from a variety of wounded landscapes. Her compositions, installations, and performances have been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and on radio internationally, including Toronto, Montreal, New York, and Berlin.
producer
As a girl, Reena Katz learned one story about the history of Israel and the people who lived there. As she grew up, an interest in cartography and her father's rare books about Palestine prompted her to dig deeper to understand the landscape of the Middle East.
This hour: earworms, mantras, and stories told again and again.