Multiple Os

Oriana interviews the artist, curator and director of Home Live Art, Katy Baird. The two discuss the repeated response that Baird receives from audiences to her bold performances: "You're so brave!" After being blown away by her solo show Unreal (2018) Oriana herself had made some iteration of this remark to Baird, in response to which Baird promptly rolled her eyes. No offense was taken, but it was nevertheless something Oriana wanted to delve into further and so they do. They also discuss appearance, gentrification, addiction and staying up all night. 

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.

Dr 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.

Katy Baird is an artist, curator and producer of Live Art based in Folkestone, Kent. As an artist Katy has performed at Live Art festivals and venues as well as squat parties, clubs and raves. Her work addresses the things we do for money, identity and consumption. She has received commissions from the Wellcome Trust, The Yard Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre and Duckie amongst others. Baird is currently Artistic Director of Home Live Art, producers of  live events across Hastings, the South East and beyond.

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Post-production mixing by Stacey Harvey
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
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Oriana interviews her brother the filmmaker and activist Josh Fox. The two discuss their respective upbringing in the same home and how this may have impacted their very different approaches to art and activism.

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. 

Dr 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.

Josh Fox is an American film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary Gasland. During the pandemic, he started a talk show called Staying home with Josh Fox, which is available on tyt.com. Most recently Fox launched his own independent network on which you can access all his films for a small monthly or annual contribution. Subscribe today to be a part of the CLIMATE REVOLUTION. 

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 and Janak Patel
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Welcome to Season 2 of Multiple Os podcast! You hopefully know the spiel by now, if you’re interested in candid confessions, creativity, non-conformity and mental health, you’ve come to the right place. This, my friend, is the much-anticipated trailer-teaser for Season 2, which explores the cross-over between working on the self and working to change the world. 

Back in May 2021, Oriana was invited to do a digital residency on Instagram for the lovely Mimosa House gallery in London, and over the course of one week, she conducted 20 interviews, that’s right, 20 interviews! It was live, it was unfiltered and uninhibited. But now they’re being rereleased as podcasts episodes, edited for your listening pleasure. One of these post-live IG interviews will be dropped twice per month, that’s two episodes a month, along with, all being well, the occasional brand-spanking new interview sprinkled in here and there, where possible. 

NB: This trailer features the voice of one of Oriana's 20 guests, Mr Lets Paint, aka John Kilduff, the multi-tasking master himself.

Guests in Season 2:
Katy Baird (Artist & Director of Home Live Art)
Marisa Carnesky (Showwoman)
Hannah Ballou (Artist)
Josh Fox (Filmmaker & Activist)
The Golden Brown Girls, Indrani Ashe and Shannon Tamara Lewis (Artists)
Eirini Kartsaki (Performance Artist)
John Kilduff, aka Mr Let's Paint (Artist)
Ann Hirsch (Artist)
Jaye McBride (Stand up Comic)
Jet Moon  (Artist & Writer)
Sigi Moonlight (Drag King)
Marina Press Granger (Artist Advisor)
Daniel Oliver (Artist)
Glen Pudvine (Painter)
Erica Scourti (Artist)
Lena Simic (Artist, Activist and Labour Councellor)
Gavin Turk (Artist)

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr Lets Paint
Sound mixing by Stacey Harvey
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson and Janak Patel
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This episode is an interview that Oriana carried out in the summer of 2017 with the artist Katherine Araniello. Sadly, Araniello passed away in February 2019, but she leaves behind a rich body of work that is politically fearless and infused with subversive humour, some of which is excerpted and contextualised in this episode. Her videos and performances often entailed self-representation, but in forms that were never earnest or preachy, instead they aimed to provoke and challenge. Satire, personas, absurdity, deadpan delivery and playing the victim were some of Araniello's key tools. The discussion focuses on how these play out across various works including her vlogs, her public interventions addressing assisted suicide and her crowd-funding campaign aimed at producing a professional music video for her song "Miracle of life". In this way, the conversation also inevitably touches upon the representations of disability that Araniello's work rallied against and her nonconformist appearance in everyday life. Spoiler alert: we talk at length about her hairdo!

Dr 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.

Katherine Araniello (b. 1965, d. 2019, London) was a live art, performance and video artist. She was also a member of The Disabled Avant-Garde with fellow artist Aaron Williamson. Her videos are accessible via her youtube channel and her archive is held at Queen Mary University of London. 

Credits:

• Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana Fox
• Post-production mixing by Stacey Harvey
• Themesong written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
• Special thanks to Tracey Jannaway, Alistair Araniello, Joan Araniello, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses. 

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In this episode, I speak with philosopher Nina Power, author of One-Dimensional Woman (2009) whose upcoming book playfully asks "What do men want?" in a nod to Freud's famous question. In this discussion, Power sheds light on her research into the manosphere, in addition to touching upon her experience of being cancelled for her views on sex and gender. My main focus, however, was to find out if and how her research on men might relate to and expand on a past live episode of The O Show entitled "Time's up, penis down: Masculinity, sexuality and #metoo", which explores the ethics of desire and the shaming of men. As the conversation unfolds, Power decries the male suicide rate as a collective stain on our morality and sheds light on the appeal of Jordan Peterson.

Political battles including the so-called 'battle of the sexes' (or should it be genders?) are all too often approached as zero-sum games with winners and losers. Seeking to undermine this tendency and find new solutions to shared problems is imperative, especially in light of the extreme polarisation in our contemporary moment. But it's impossible to make this move without actually talking to people with whom you disagree. In addition to this being a topic Power and I address, it also serves to explain my rationale, if you're wondering why I'm talking to someone who has been labelled a terf (trans exclusionary radical feminist).

Oriana Fox is an 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, which has been filmed in a variety of London locations including Tate Britain, Town Hall Hotel, The Hackney Showroom and The AllBright.

Nina Power is a cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher and translator. She was a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University. Her book What do men want?  is due for publication by Penguin in 2022.  

Credits:

• Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana Fox
• Post-production mixing by Stacey Harvey
• Themesong written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
• Special thanks to Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses. 

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This is just a quick announcement apologising for the delay in episode delivery. The next one will come out in early November. Hang tight! 

Oriana continues the interview begun on The O Show live edition on Instagram with the artist and author Season Butler. In that initial discussion, they spoke about the racial empathy bias, climate change and Bill Cosby, each of which has played a key part in Butler’s work. However, they both regretted not getting to discuss their shared passion for The Little Mermaid in all its incarnations. So here they jump straight in with an analysis of varied versions including the original Danish folktale, Disney’s animation and Splash from the perspective of two grown women for whom these narratives played a formative role. In this way, the conversation begins with the topic of boundary-crossing and then unfolds and meanders to address race, addiction, coming of age, the role that community plays in one’s tastes and self-judgments, as well as the end of the world, themes dealt with in Butler’s debut novel Cygnet. Toward the very end, they touch upon topics that are more central to the focus of this podcast series, that is, the risks and benefits of using one’s self and life experiences as the fodder for creative work, about which Butler provides a unique perspective.

Oriana Fox is an 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, which has been filmed in a variety of London locations including Tate Britain, Town Hall Hotel, The Hackney Showroom and The AllBright. 

Season Butler is a London/Berlin-based writer, performance artist and teacher, and an associate producer of the I'm With You art collective. Her debut novel Cygnet was published in 2019 by Dialogue Books in the UK and Harper Collins in the US.

The discussion makes reference to the following additional cultural reference points: Deborah Pearson’s podcast The Whole Darned Thing; Robin Bernstein’s book Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights; Nicolas Roeg’s film Walkabout; Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility; Elizabeth Anderson’s lecture What Has Gone Wrong? Populist politics and the mobilization of fear and resentment; and Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man.

Credits: 

• Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana Fox
• Post-production mixing by Stacey Harvey
• Themesong written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
• Special thanks to I'm with you, Henry Mulhall, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses. 

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Jaye McBride is proudly transgender, yet self-deprecating humour is her stock and trade. In this candid interview, McBride discusses riding that line as well as the ups and downs of being an out trans woman comic, the doors that open while others shut; the fact that all her material is read as trans; and being told by liberal audiences that she shouldn't use the word 'tranny'. Her comedy undoubtedly puts her at risk of being haggled and trolled, but importantly it also offers her the chance to tell her story and to raise awareness of trans issues. Fittingly, McBride's motto is a quote from Margaret Wheatley: "you can't hate someone whose story you know".

If you want more of Oriana and Jaye in conversation, check out the follow-up interview on Instagram.   

Oriana Fox is an 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.

Jaye McBride is a smart, funny and proudly transgender woman. Based in Brooklyn, she has travelled the world performing stand-up comedy both as a headliner and sharing the stage with comedy greats. McBride has appeared on Comedy Central and has broken through barriers by being named the first transgender comic to be passed into regular rotation at Broadway Comedy Club. She also delivers talks on being trans in colleges around the states and has written, produced and acted in a variety of short films. In addition to being an activist for trans visibility, she also works to ensure women's right to choose. 

Credits: 

• Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana Fox
• Post-production mixing by Stacey Harvey
• Themesong written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
• Special thanks to Tom Estes, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses. 

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Not only is the artist and businesswoman Ope Lori an expert in the politics of looking and desire, but she gets turned on by her own work. In this durational interview, Oriana Fox asks Lori about the lessons learned from making work that addresses the intersections of race and gender, and about how that has impacted her life and career. In this meandering discussion they touch upon the impact of the media and its stereotypes; the limits of the tactic of reversal towards genuine inclusion; the importance of language; guilty pleasures; cross-identification; porn; and fighting the myth of the suffering artist. They also discuss the path Lori followed in founding her very own consulting and training business PILAA (Pre-Image Learning and Action). Through it, Lori puts the expertise gleaned from her practice-based research as an artist to work for the greater good. In this way, she follows the motto coined by Jack Halberstam in Gaga Feminism: “Know the game, be the game, play the game, change the game!” If you have ever questioned the wider use of art that addresses identity politics, then look no further than Ope Lori’s trailblazing work.

Oriana Fox is an 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.

Dr Ope Lori lives and works in London. She is an artist and the founder of the business PILAA (Pre-image Learning and Action) which specialises in creating inspirational visual work and training in the area of equality, diversity and inclusion. Previously, she taught at both Chelsea College of Arts and Leeds Arts University. She holds a PhD from the Transnational Art Identity and Nation Research Centre, UAL and is currently working on a book. A newly commissioned artwork by Lori will be on view in a group exhibition entitled “Care, Contagion, Community – Self & Other” at Autograph in Shoreditch opening in September 2021. 

Additional artists mentioned in this episode: Sadie Lee, Marcia Michael, The Golden Brown Girls (aka Indrani Ashe, Shannon Tamara Lewis and Sara Umar), Fred Wilson, Bill Viola, Virginia Nimarkoh

Books mentioned in this episode: Darby English 1971: A Year in the Life of Colour; Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow;
and Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence.

Credits: 

• Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana Fox
• Post-production mixing by Stacey Harvey
• Themesong written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
• Special thanks to Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses. 

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Oriana continues her conversation with the author and filmmaker Juliet Jacques whose work challenges mainstream misconceptions of trans identity. They discuss Jacques' film "You will be Free" which ruminates on the positives and negatives of facing death. Not only does the film say everything she thinks about life in ten minutes, but certain lines of it make her cry. They also discuss Jacques' relationship to masculinity, femininity, nonbinary gender identity and feminism. 

Oriana Fox is an 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.

Juliet Jacques is a writer, filmmaker and cultural critic who has written three books and an array of essays for a variety of publications including but not limited to The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Frieze, New York Times, The Washington Post, TimeOut, New Inquiry, The New Statesman. She writes on topics that reflect her expertise in and passion for literature and the arts more generally, trans politics, anti-capitalism and, of course, football. She also founded and hosts the podcast Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm, which looks at the arts in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts. You can purchase her most recent book Variations directly from the publisher InFlux or via most booksellers. 

Credits:

• Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana Fox
• Post-production mixing by Stacey Harvey
• Themesong written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
• Special thanks to Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses. 

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