Multiple Os – Details, episodes & analysis

Oriana speaks with artist Nando Messias about the hypervisibility of their trans-feminine identity, the risks this entails and how it informs their work in the medium of performance. Importantly, Messias's work also allows them to live out their fantasies, including performing Pina Bausch's choreography, wearing the gown and going to the ball. 

Nando Messias is a Brazilian-born, London-based performance artist, actor, and academic working between art, dance, theater, and queer theory. Their performances combine beauty with a fierce critique of gender, visibility, and violence. Messias has performed in the UK and internationally, at venues such as The Royal Court, Hayward Gallery, V&A, Tate Britain, Roundhouse, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, and ICA. 

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.

Artworks mentioned:
The O Show: Without sacrificing her femininity (2018) by Oriana Fox, featuring Nando Messias
Sissy's Progress (2014-15) by Nando Messias
The Pink Supper (2019) by Nando Messias and Biño Sauitzvy
Sissy! (2009-2011) by Nando Messias
The Powers That Be (2015) by Cassils

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Background music loop by Teddybeast6
Photo of Nando Messias by Sofia Natoli
Special Thanks to Gavin Butt, Lara Perry, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson and Janak Patel

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Oriana Fox interviews artist Chinasa Vivian Ezugha about her recent projects and the role her early work and upbringing in Nigeria have played in encouraging her political voice. Fittingly, she is currently developing an ambitious, multidisciplinary project speaking out against the use of food scarcity as a weapon of war; and is culminating her practical and doctoral research on glossolalia. Importantly, she also discusses her tenure as co-director of the Live Art Development Agency in London and the lessons she gleaned about creating safe spaces and the personal boundaries required to enable them. 

Chinasa Vivian Ezugha is a Nigerian-born, British performance artist, scholar and PhD candidate at University of Exeter, United Kingdom. Currently, she is the Assistant Professor of Live Art/Art as Social Practice at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Her current research focuses on the voice of glossolalia and aims to expand this vocal practice beyond the walls of a church. 

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
Special Thanks to Gavin Butt, Lara Perry, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson and Janak Patel

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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.

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 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.

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 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. 

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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Oriana Fox interviews the internationally acclaimed artist Gavin Turk for The O Show live edition @mimosahouselondon. The two catch up as it’s been many years since Turk was a guest on The O Show “Business or Pleasure” episode. They discuss success, shame, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Gavin Turk is a blue-chip artist of YBA fame. He has pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture now taken for granted, including the painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art-historical icon and the use of rubbish in art.

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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Oriana Fox reconnects with multi-tasking painter/performer John Kilduff of Let’s Paint TV. Kilduff is the man who Oriana made her first-ever live web broadcast with, the man without whom The O Show would not exist. They discuss the rapid pace of change on internet platforms, imposter syndrome, gender identity, and the future of painting, among many other random topics.

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.

John Kilduff of Let’s Paint TV is the multi-tasking treadmill painter to the stars! He paints, exercises, cooks and interacts with audiences, sometimes also engaging in myriad additional activities such as playing chess, badminton or riding a bicycle. He does it all and embraces failare [sic]! This month John is leading the world's premiere paintathalon at the Oxbow Summer Program of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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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🏳️‍🌈 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
www.orianafox.com

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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.

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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