Multiple Os – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Performance artist Selina Thompson’s work exemplifies how working on oneself can be harnessed to change the world. Thompson began making autobiographical solo performances about stereotypically feminine concerns before moving on to political topics with a capital ‘P’, e.g., racism and democracy, topics that “men write books about”, as she puts it. The first solo performance work of her still flourishing career was called Chewing the fat (2013) and addressed eating disorders; her next two, both made in 2015, were companion pieces, with Dark and Lovely focusing on the tribulations, joys and solidarity of Black hair styling, while Race Cards compiles thousands of questions on the topic of race. Subsequently, her most widely acclaimed and internationally toured piece, Salt (2016), reckons with her identity as a British post-colonial subject by recounting her endeavour to retrace the transatlantic slave trade route on a cargo ship. Her current work, Twine, arguably her most personal piece to date, is the show she previously vowed not to make because the subject matter, her own adoption, was too emotionally fraught to tackle. We discuss the continuities across these works: the defiance of shame, the channeling of anger, her commitment to durational research and development, and how all of the above have impacted her life, for better or worse. 

Selina Thompson (b. 1990, Birmingham) is an artist and writer whose work has been shown and praised nationally and internationally. Her practice is chiefly concerned with grief, love, and the world to come, and she seeks to make work that is visually striking, and lyrical, even while grounded in politics. She won the ISPA Distinguished artist award in 2023, and her credits, both with and outside of her company, Selina Thompson Ltd, include  BBC4, BBC Radio 3, The Royal Court Theatre, The Public Theater and BAM as well as theatres across the UK, Europe, South and North America and Australia.

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.

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Background music loop by Teddybeast6
Special Thanks to Lara Perry, Katie Beeson and Janak Patel

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Veteran performance artist and Artistic Director of SPILL Festival, Robin Deacon makes self-disclosing work that deflects easy assumptions about who he is and what makes him tick. This discussion nevertheless locates two consistencies within his life/work: he has a penchant for avoiding rehearsal and a tendency to exemplify his perspective by talking about musicians and music rather than visual artists and art. In this roving conversation, Robin addresses the appeal of varied approaches to autobiographical practice, from the ironically humorous to the earnestly authentic; his feelings about success and mid-career status; the label, 'submerging artist'; and many wise anecdotes from his long and storied teaching career.

Robin Deacon (born 1973 Eastbourne, England) is an artist, writer, filmmaker and curator based in Ipswich. His work, which has toured venues in the UK, US, Europe and Asia, is acclaimed for its innovative approach to the lecture as an art form. In his current role as Artistic Director of SPILL Festival, he emphasises unusual perspectives and untold histories. 

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.

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Background music loop by Teddybeast6
Photo of Robin Deacon by David Loney
Special Thanks to Lara Perry, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson and Janak Patel

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Oriana Fox interviews the artist Ann Hirsch whose video and performance art practice entails participant observation within myriad mediated contexts. For her project entitled Scandalishious, Hirsch became a YouTube camwhore with over two million video views and then made an appearance as a contestant on Frank the Entertainer…In a Basement Affair on Vh1.  Much has changed since that pioneering YouTube work, which was made back in 2008 when the platform had only just begun. While it’s much more commonplace now for a woman to explore her sexuality online and be taken seriously as a complex human being, the power dynamics at play are still locked and in need of dismantling. The pace of change is both intensely fast and heartbreakingly slow within digital capitalism. Also discussed in this candid interview is Hirsch's recent work as a male alter ego; her musical about academia; and her prophecy that every woman will show her vagina on the internet 

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.

Ann Hirsch is a video and performance artist whose work has been shown to acclaim at MOCA Los Angeles; Performa, New York; South London Gallery, London; and the New Museum, New York.

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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, Lara Perry, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London

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In this fascinating discussion, artist Erica Scourti teaches Oriana what it's like to treat Twitter as if it's your potential boyfriend. Scourti also discusses the art of impersonal autobiography; the recalcitrance of old formats despite the invention of new media; mental health and technology; and the possiblity of resistance in the face of capitalist cooptation.

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.

Erica Scourti is an artist and writer, based in Athens and London whose work mines the intersections of autobiography and collective experience through everyday media and in particular, social media and its algorithms. She has performed, exhibited and presented talks internationally, at High Line New York, Wellcome Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Hayward Gallery, Munich Kunstverein, ICA London and EMST Athens, the 7th Athens Biennale: ECLIPSE and Survival Kit 13, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (2022). Her writing has been published in Spells (Ignota, 2018) and Fiction as Method (Sternberg, 2017) amongst others, and she guest-edited the Happy Hypocrite- Silver Bandage journal (2019).  She is undertaking a PhD in Goldsmiths’ Art Department, and is a Lecturer in BA Fine Art at Central St Martins.

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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, Lara Perry, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London

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In this brand new interview with the artist and author Dawn Woolley, we discuss her brand new book Consuming the body: Capitalism, Social Media and Commodification published by Bloomsbury on 6 Oct 2022. The book is a sociological study of contemporary consumerism and the commodified construction of ideal gendered bodies, paying particular attention to the new forms of interaction produced by social networking sites. In short, there’s a lot of analysis of the phenomenon of the selfie.

The book describes the behaviours of an ideal neoliberal subject, that is, the type of person produced by the current form of capitalism – the kind of capitalism that promotes competitive individualism and defines human worth in solely economic terms. In this context, Woolley identifies the sadistic demands the market makes of us, which is how we are transformed into self-disciplining subjects, but importantly, she also highlights forms of pleasure and opportunities for subversion. 

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.

Dawn Woolley is an artist and academic whose work examines representations of gender in adverts, magazines, on TV and online in order to appropriate their visual language and expose the stereotypes they reproduce. In 2017 Woolley's photograph The Substitute (holiday) was designated the world's best selfie by GQ magazine, after winning Saatchi gallery's from selfie to self-expression competition. Woolley is also a research fellow at Leeds Art University. The book launch event is Friday, 21 Oct, 5.30 - 7 pm at Leeds Art University or online, book here.
 
Additional artworks, authors and artists mentioned in the podcast:

• Dawn Woolley's The Substitute Series
• Bois of Isolation Instagram project by Dawn Woolley and AC Davidson
• Artists: Alok Vaid-Menon, Caspar White, Martha Wilson and Mary Kelly
• Hillel Schwartz
• Erving Goffman
• Victory (Nike) Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)

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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, Lara Perry, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London

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My guest Season Butler is an artist/author. That's right folks, yet another artist turned author! Butler and I discuss the motivations behind her debut novel Cygnet and her performance piece Happiness Forgets, touching upon the racial empathy bias, climate change, activism and Bill Cosby. 

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. We followed it up with a longer interview for this podcast, which was aired in Season 1 - listen 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.

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.

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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, Lara Perry, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Mimosa House Gallery, London and I'm with you (R Justin Hunt and Christa Holka)
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This episode contains a freshly recorded conversation with Ania Bas, a hard-working Polish Artist-turned-Author (based in the UK). Her debut novel Odd Hours revolves around a prickly female protagonist who works in a well-lit, unethical supermarket and lives in a badly-lit zone 3 flatshare. The book contains unidealised migrants, a self-help book-within-a-book, short and sharp poetry and some saucy scenes. The elevator pitch reads: "Odd Hours is a whip-smart social comedy for those of us who feel that life is a game where someone else has stolen the rules." Ania Bas is certainly someone who is living life by her own rules, transitioning mid-career from a socially engaged artist to a novelist. Oriana asks about that transition, the book itself and the important links between Bas's visual arts practice and her writing.

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.

Ania Bas is an artist and writer whose work explores how narratives shape understanding, mythology and knowledge of places and people. Her work takes diverse forms to create situations that support dialogue and question existing frameworks of participation. Bas has been commissioned by the Tate, Whitechapel Gallery and Yorkshire Artspace, and her debut novel Odd Hours was published by Wellbeck in June 2022. It is available to purchase  in all good bookshops or from bookshop.org

Other works mentioned in the podcast:
Susie Orbach Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978)
The office-sabotaging works of artist Pilvi Takala
Marie Kondo The Life-changing Magic of Tidying (2014)

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
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This is a quick announcement that the next episode of "Multiple Os" will be an interview with the artist-turned author, Ania Bas, whose debut novel Odd Hours was published earlier this summer. The previously announced interview with guest Dawn Woolley, author of the academic book Consuming the Body will drop in October.

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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 Jane Hayes-Greenwood, Tom Estes, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
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Oriana Fox interviews artist Karen Karen McLean about her recent body of work and its poignant and unexpected resonances with current events. They discuss McLean's unique approach to materials as metaphors for the topics she addresses including displacement, migration, resistance and resilience. Also discussed are the emotions involved in making work utilising materials symbolic of and honouring the agency of enslaved women in the Caribbean; as well as other subjects including poverty, gang violence and the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

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.

Karen McLean's work researches and interrogates the legacies of colonialism. She explores her experiences of growing up in post-independence Trinidad in the 1960s - a time of significant social change that saw the dismantling of old colonial structures and the removal of barriers for Black and mixed-race people like her. Her practice includes sound, moving image and installations that incorporate a wide variety of evocative and symbolic materials such as sugar, blue soap, wood, beading, wallpaper and hessian bags.

The works discussed in this podcast were shown in the exhibition  Blue Power/ Arn’t I a Woman! at Block 336 Gallery in Brixton 20th May to 12th June 2021. "Arn't I a Woman!" was subsequently shown at New Art Gallery Walsall.

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Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Jane Hayes-Greenwood, Tom Estes, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
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Oriana Fox interviews The Artist Advisory’s founder Marina Press Granger. Granger dispels the myth of the starving artist and a slew of other myths that Oriana throws her way. She also explains her four steps for success: 1. Intention 2. Mindset 3. Presentation 4. Action. So tune in to find out how to make money from your art while staying true to your values. Know your worth!

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.

Marina Press Granger of  The Artist Advisory offers honest answers to artists, helping them progress and promote their careers. Granger has 15 years of experience working in museums and galleries in New York City. Her work has brought her in close contact with a range of players in the art world; artists, collectors, curators, dealers, and consultants. She has also curated independently and contributed to gallery exhibition catalogues. 

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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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