Katie Vida
March 21, 2021

The very first episode of The Selection Committee Radio Show!

Host Nate Heiges introduces the show and the project with Matt Taber, co-founder of International Waters gallery. Then we dive into a wonderful conversation with artist Katie Vida about music, performance, triumph & despair.

Katie’s remarkable sound work can be found here.
Please email me for links to the songs in the show.


Complete playlist below; links to the available songs in green.

  1. World Destruction (Single Edit), Time Zone: John Lydon, Afrika Bambaataa, 2001
  2. Song of the Shirt, Lindsay Cooper, 1980
  3. Obscene & Pornographic Art, Bongwater, 1991
  4. Jackie Wilson, My Yiddishe Momme, Jackie Wilson, 1961
  5. Memory Song; Larry Owens, L Morgan Lee, James Jackson Jr., Jason Veasey, Antwayn Hopper, John-Michael Lyles, John-Andrew Morrison, Michael R. Jackson, 2019
  6. The Same Situation, Joni Mitchell, 1974
  7. Morning Star–Evening Star, Dory Previn, 1972 (not available in the USA)
  8. Im Abendrot, D.799; Franz Schubert, composed 1827; Fritz Wunderlich, Hubert Giesen, recorded 1997
  9. Baltimore, Nina Simone, 1978
  10. What Katie Did (collaged from What Katie Did), Katie Vida, 2014
  11. Vida (collaged from Mildred Pierce), Katie Vida, 2014
  12. Hotline Bling + Artist Must Be Beautiful Medley, Katie Vida, 2016
  13. All I Want for Christmas is Me, Katie Vida, 2016
  14. I'll be Home for Christmas, Katie Vida, 2016


Katie Vida (Brooklyn, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist. Vida is the recipient of fellowships at The MacDowell Colony, Shandaken Project, VCUQatar and Fanoon: Center for Print Media Research (Doha, Qatar), Yaddo, Millay Colony, and the Budapest Puppet Theater (Budapest, Hungary) among others. Vida has presented work at venues including: Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), The Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery at SUNY Purchase (Purchase, NY), ALLGOLD MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY), Creative Time (New York, NY), Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT), The Luggage Store (San Francisco, CA), and was awarded Best Experimental Film for “Shelly” at the Brussels Independent Film Festival in 2020. She has served as Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer at institutions including Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island), Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, New York), University of Hawaii-Manoa (Honolulu, HI), and VCUQatar (Doha, Qatar) and is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the MFA Program at Maine College of Art (Portland, ME). Vida holds an MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.