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🏳️‍🌈 In honour of pride month, I'm sharing the interview I did with Jacqui Bardelang, the performer behind drag king Sigi Moonlight. Bardelang speaks about the various personas Moonlight encompasses and the way they subvert binary gender norms and racial stereotypes through seduction. Counterintuitively, Bardelang has gotten more in touch with her feminine side through drag kinging. We also discuss pronouns and the ups and downs of female masculinity on stage and off, from being the object of pansexual desire to being misgendered.

This interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video here.

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

Jacqui Bardelang is an actor who performs regularly as drag king Sigi Moonlight, taking on multiple, eclectic characters parodying masculinity, from British icons such as Captain Birdseye who wants to show you his fish finger to the generic wise old Asian man of Kung Fu fame whose quest, in Moonlight's rendition, is to be sexy. Bardelang is a member of two collectives Pecs Drag Kings and The Bitten Peach. Moonlight was also featured in Them magazine's article "8 Drag Kings you need to know".

FYI: You can watch the related episode of 'The O Show' on Female Masculinity featuring guest artists Del LaGrace Volcano, Lucy Hutson and Temi Wilkey with performances by Pecs Drag Kings on the O Show's new website: www.theoshow.live/female-masculinity or on TheOrianaFox's youtube channel here.

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Tom Estes, Caroline Wong, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
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Oriana Fox interviews the straight, white, male painter Glen Pudvine about the artistic process, gender, authenticity, mortality and, of course, dick pics.

This interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video here. 

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

Glen Pudvine’s surreal self-portraits incorporate a variety of art historical references and assess sexuality and white masculinity in the contemporary moment. His work will be exhibited at Xxijra Hii gallery in Deptford in October 2022.

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Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Tom Estes, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
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Oriana Fox meets The Golden Brown Girls, Indrani Ashe and Shannon Tamara Lewis to discuss the imagined futures that their eponymously titled web series presents. Grey-haired, witty and optimistic, their older selves live out a fantasy that is in distinct contrast to their lived reality in an age of austerity. Ashe and Lewis also discuss the show’s centring of women of colour protagonists. Finally, the three arrive at a plan for a future episode in which Oriana will play a cameo appearance.

This interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video here. 

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

The Golden Brown Girls project was founded in 2014 in London by visual artists Shannon Tamara Lewis and Indrani Ashe. Soon after they invited another artist, Sara Umar to write herself into the script. It's now a growing network of women and creative professionals from across the globe with individual and collaborative practices. Their web series was envisioned as a method of imagining the artists' futures, a stage for their political concerns and a way to create new social structures with like-minded individuals. 

Indrani Ashe is a US-born, Goldsmiths-educated, Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist of  Bengali and white American descent whose practice speaks to the experience of the body as a political vessel, wresting the narrative from hegemonical structures. Ashe was interviewed on a previous episode of this podcast, which you can listen to here.
Follow her on Instagram @theshadowarchivist

Shannon Tamara Lewis is a Canadian artist of Caribbean descent, who also studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is based in Berlin. In addition to founding The Golden Brown Girls, she is a painter whose figurative canvases combine bizarre imagery and uncanny landscapes to form a fantastical world. Follow her on Instagram @shannontamaralewis

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Tom Estes, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
www.orianafox.com

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Oriana Fox interviews the queer, working class, disabled artist and writer Jet Moon. They discuss Moon’s varied practice including live performance, anti-austerity activism, sex work and facilitating writing workshops for survivors.

This interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video here.

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

Jet Moon is a writer, performer, director and activist producing politically engaged creative work including events, works and collaborations that push for change, re-evaluation and empowerment. They often operate outside of the traditional arts context, in clubs, autonomous spaces, as part of queer or activist gatherings, traveling to work with marginalised groups and promoting information exchange and mutual aid.

For updates on Jet Moon's upcoming books and the next incarnation of Playing with Fire the survivor's writing project, follow them on Instagram. 

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Tom Estes, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
www.orianafox.com

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Oriana Fox speaks with live artist Daniel Oliver about the daring mix of pre-planning, chance, nakedness and collaboration in his work. Oliver wants audiences to be euphoric about or made uncomfortable by his participatory work, anything but indifferent. In embracing the label dyspraxic along with punk aesthetics, he welcomes the potential for getting things wrong. In fact, he believes that's what makes live art the ideal medium for his work. Taking agency as a neurodiverse artist for Oliver means that if you don't like what he does, you're just ableist.   

The first half of this interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video here.

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

Daniel Oliver is a performance artist and scholar who specialises in participatory performance and awkwardness. His experience with dyspraxia has lead to an invested interest in neurodiversity and its place in contemporary performance practices and scholarship. His book Awkwoods: Daniel Oliver’s Dyspraxic Adventures in Participatory Performance was published by Unbound in 2019. Oliver's latest piece Artparty Boardgame is touring the following UK venues in May 2022:

• CLAY, Leeds, Friday 6th May - https://www.clayleeds.co.uk/
• ​Cambridge Junction, Cambridge, Friday 13th May - https://www.junction.co.uk/chipperlarterart-party-the...
• Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester, Wednesday 18th May - https://www.colchesterartscentre.com/.../wonderful.../

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
www.orianafox.com

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On this episode, Oriana Fox interviews the world's leading green autistic drag queen, Oozing Gloop. They discuss  Gloop’s dream lifestyle; their failed politics degree; their views on autobiographical performance, autism and gender; and perhaps most importantly, their visionary political paradigm, commucracy.

The interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video here.

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

Oozing Gloop's provocative, award-winning experimental live art merges cabaret and performance art. More specifically, their particular brand of 'queer alchemy' entails trans drag storytelling for earthly survival with multiple submissions from other avatars of the chthulucene. Check out their podcast Slurry, co-hosted with Olympia Bukkakis.

Cultural stuff mentioned in this podcast:

•  "You're Wrong About" podcast episode on autism
• Temple Grandville film directed by Mick Jackson
• The Bechdel Test and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
• Kembra Pfahler, leader of the band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
www.orianafox.com

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Oriana Fox interviews seasoned showwoman Marisa Carnesky. They discuss showwomanship, raw talent, collaboration, menstruation and miscarriage, all of which are addressed in Carnesky Production’s accessible, provocative and political work.

The interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video here.

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

Marisa Carnesky is an artist, showwoman and practitioner-researcher with her very own production company responsible for original large and small scale interactive performance works. Carnesky Productions is interested in the use of spectacle; fairground rides, magic illusions and grand ritual as a means of creating highly accessible provocative work, rooted in popular culture that promotes cultural and political discourses.

If you want more, book tickets for Carnesky’s upcoming live event "Kabaret Kollective" on 11 March at Tramshed in Woolwich Arsenal. Also coming up in May is a tour of Showwomen at various UK venues, see carnesky.com for details.

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
www.orianafox.com

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Oriana Fox interviews the insatiable, sexy and weird performance artist Eirini Kartsaki who expounds her Manifesto and entices Oriana to show more cleavage. More accurately, Oriana listens to her guest and sometimes interjects with a question or two as Kartsaki fleshes out what it means to live a life free from norms and expectations, a life that is weird, inconsistent, too much and without children. In doing so she calls for a revaluation of inconsistency, uncertainty and instability. Kartsaki's top tip for self care (spoiler alert), is to scream 'lawlessness' ten times in a row. Lawlessness! Lawlessness! Lawlessness! Lawlessness! Lawlessness! Lawlessness! Lawlessness! Lawlessness! Lawlessness! Lawlessness! 

The interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You'll want to watch the episode here to witness all the cleavage that's mentioned herein.

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

Eirini Kartsaki is a writer, performance maker and lecturer in East15 Acting School, University of Essex. Her work explores sexuality, excess and female desire. She has been awarded the Audiences Award and the Champe Libre Award for her work with Tante&Tante. Her performances take place across art, theatre and academic contexts including Tate Britain, V&A, Whitechapel Gallery, Sadler's Wells, Camden People's Theatre, Arnolfini, The Yard, Chisenhale Dance Space, Palais de Tokyo, amongst others.

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
www.orianafox.com

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This episode is a double feature as it includes not one but two interviews Oriana carried out with the performance artist Hannah Ballou. Last year, Oriana spoke with Ballou after she had just completed filming Goo:Ga II, itself a sequel to her 2015 feminist live art comedy show Goo: Ga I, which playfully subverted the gender reveal party and announced the sex of her first child, a much-desired daughter. As Ballou explains, she always wanted to do a follow-up show. But due to Covid, Goo:Ga II had to be staged in an empty theatre for the camera. The hilarity of the first performance continues in the film sequel as a heavily pregnant Ballou, accompanied by her now 5-year old daughter in matching leopard-print bikinis, takes us through a vibrant dance routine, replete with a giant yoga ball that Ballou vogues with, making a spectacle of her bump, Meghan Markle-style. The mood swiftly changes though, as we learn that the gender binary paradigm is the least of this fetus' problems since being diagnosed with a very rare heart anomaly. The mood of Goo ga II darkens as Ballou grapples to keep hope at bay, not knowing if the pregnancy will come to term. It's a film that will literally make you laugh and cry. Oriana's follow-up interview with Ballou, which took place recently, i.e. 7 months after the first, finds Ballou with the relief of her baby boy alive and thriving, and with a string of upcoming film screenings to plug.

The first interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the episode here.

***Tickets to the next screening of Goo:Ga II at Colchester Arts Centre on 4 May 2022 can be booked here.***

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

Hannah Ballou is a live artist whose practice integrates neo-burlesque, stand-up comedy, and audience participation. She holds a Ph.D. in feminist comedy from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is currently a Lecturer in Drama & Theatre Arts at Kingston Univerity, London. You can follow Hannah on Instagram or Facebook.

Also mentioned in this episode is the book Maternal Performance (2021) written by Lena Simic and Emily Underwood-Lee, which includes writing about Ballou's work among other performances dealing with maternity. Register here for the online book launch event taking place on 15 February at 7pm GMT. 

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
www.orianafox.com

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Oriana Fox interviews the activist, artist, mother, educator and Labour councillor Lena Šimić. Oriana gets some practical advice about how to become more politically active while balancing the demands of work, motherhood and art. Environmentalism and anti-capitalism are two of the causes that have occupied Šimić, so they discuss how she has tackled these issues creatively and within family life.

This interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the episode here.

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

Lena Simic is an artist, activist, performance maker and researcher, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, living in Liverpool. Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, UK. Her book Maternal Performance co-authored with Emily Underwood-Lee was published in 2021. Register here for the online book launch event taking place on 15 February at 7 pm GMT. 

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
www.orianafox.com

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