JYOTI ARVEY
Jyoti Arvey is a San Francisco based artist creating work at the intersection of text and performance. Their writing has been featured in DISSOLVE Magazine, The New Engagement, sparkle + blink, and the Cosmic Bulletin 2021. In 2017, they began performing in drag as Eileen Kilometers at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, and have since performed at venues across the city including CounterPulse, SAFEhouse, and The Convent Arts Collective. They are currently at work on a poetry collection and a novel.
jyoti.arvey [at] gmail [dot] com
Artist Photo: Ben Nadell
CV
Work/Academic
2023 - present Editorial Assistant, UC Press, Oakland, CA
2015 - 2021 Writer, Russian Translator, & Social Media Manager, Gallery Moderne, Nyack, NY
2016 - 2020 Bookseller, Dog Eared Books Castro (now Fabulosa Books), San Francisco, CA
2014 - 2015 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia
2014 Bachelor of Arts in Slavic Studies, Connecticut College, New London, CT
Oakes and Louise Ames Prize for most outstanding thesis, Connecticut College
Performances
2023 MOTHER VOID, at RIPE [Raw + Intimate Performance Experiment] curated by the Performance Primers, FRESH Festival
2023, Counterpulse, San Francisco, CA
2022 Planet 65 (ABJD Series), film co-directed with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, CA
2020 Golden Hour: Paradise, Baker Beach, San Francisco, CA
2020 New Habits: They/Them, Convent Arts Collective, San Francisco, CA
2020 (co-curated & produced) Open Book: Spirit, Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, CA
2019 this time I am about to describe to you, RAW Performance at SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco, CA
2019 STONE & FLESH, RAW Performance at SAFEhouse Arts, San Francisco, CA
2019 Work More 8: Drag House, OX & VivvyAnne ForeverMORE!, Counterpulse, San Francisco, CA
2017-2019 High Fantasy & Chasers, Aunt Charlie's Lounge, San Francisco, CA
2017-2018 Dick at Nite, Moby Dick Bar, San Francisco, CA
Readings
Dec 2022 Nonconform 2.0 Writers' Cafe, Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg (virtual)
March 2020 Quiet Lightning, Old Devil Moon, San Francisco, CA
July 2019 Happy Endings: Sand, Witches & Sandwiches, Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
Feb 2019 (co-curated & produced) Our Restless Blood Launch Party, Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, CA
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Interviews
Interview with Dog Eared Books Castro, Argonáutica Blog, September 6th 2019
A Teacher from the US Working at Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University (in Russian), Channel OTC, Novosibirsk, Russia - May 2015