WRITING
ARTWORK
interviews
and reviews
by Arturo
Electric Literature - Isolation and addiction in Lungfish: Meghan Gilliss interviewed by Arturo Vidich (Catapult, 2022)
The Chicago Review of Books - The Diasporic Gaze: an interview with Fatin Abbas on Ghost Season (W.W. Norton, 2023)
The Chicago Review of Books - Featured Review of Marta Balcewicz’s debut novel Big Shadow (Book*Hug Press, 2023)
Electric Literature - Interview with Ruth Madievsky about All-Night Pharmacy (Catapult, 2023)
The Chicago Review of Books - Interview with Kate Doyle about I Meant It Once (Algonquin, 2023)
The Chicago Review of Books - Featured article about Rufi Thorpe’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles (William Morrow, 2024)
The Millions - Interview with Helen Phillips about HUM (Simon & Schuster / Marysue Rucci Books, 2024)
The Chicago Review of Books - Interview with Courtney Maum about Alan Opts Out (Little Brown, 2026)
novel
Salt For A Dog
Shortlisted for the Masters Review 2022 Novel Excerpt Contest
*A project of Creative Capital
Nothing Precious, Nothing Ruined, in-progress
SELECTED Artwork
BODY ISLAND, 2011
Body Island is inspired by a vision of the performer's body as a landscape and a site of refuge. In using imagery that evokes a natural catastrophe, the work is a metaphor for how society anticipates and responds to crisis. One performer and ten rats interacted in a closed structure as it flooded. Spectators reclined on the structure while the unseen performance occurred beneath them. Three camera feeds of the action were live-edited and projected onto a screen suspended over the structure. This work exists as a single channel video, as well as a 4-channel video installation. The performance captures complex, unpredictable behavior patterns that suggest larger structures. The performer in Body Island uses behavior as a prompt for the rats, who were trained to respond to position and movement as well as environmental factors. Shot on location at Abrons Art Center, co-presented by The Chocolate Factory. March, 2011
