Multiple Os
Talk show host Oriana Fox interviews an eclectic array of artists and other experts who have no difficulty ‘spilling the beans’ about their lives and opinions, especially when they defy norms and conventions. If you’re interested in candid confessions, non-conformity, creativity and mental health, you’ve come to the right place! 'Multiple Os' is the spin-off podcast for Oriana's performance piece 'The O Show', an instantly recognisable yet innovative take on the talk show genre. Topics explored include gender, sexuality, shyness and success, integrating therapeutic, artistic and political perspectives.
Episodes
47 episodes
Labour, Care and Solidarity with Charlotte Warne Thomas
Oriana interviews artist Charlotte Warne Thomas about the insights gleaned from the research report she was commissioned to write on the precarious and often unpaid nature of artists' labour. Charlotte shares the impact that research has had on...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:05:26
Nando Messias: Violence, Fantasy and Trans Visibility
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 thei...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:03:58
Chinasa Vivian Ezugha: Voice, Activism and Safe Spaces
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, multidiscipl...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:05:51
Chinasa Vivian Ezugha: Because of Hair
Artist Chinasa Vivian Ezugha discusses the performance piece Because of Hair, which was a springboard to her career as a performance artist and an activist. The piece entailed covering her face with a hair mask she had constructed as a...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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57:12
Shame, Envy and Midlife Crises with Oriana Fox and Felicity Allen
The tables have turned and our host Oriana Fox is in the hot seat while artist Felicity Allen doles out the questions. The two discuss the medium of the interview; those pesky feelings of shame, rivalry and envy; and the role of humour, serious...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:06:37
The Disoeuvre with Artist Felicity Allen
Oriana interviews artist Felicity Allen who explains the neologism disoeuvre which she coined to describe her own artistic practice as distinct from a progressive, linear oeuvre associated with so-called 'real artists'. A disoeuvre str...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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57:47
Season 2 Finale: Curing Scottee's Academiaphobia with staff psychologist Angela Fox
In this long-awaited final episode of Multiple O's Season 2, Oriana shares an old recording from one of the first performances of The O Show. It felt like a good way to celebrate the life of the late O Show staff psychologist,...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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28:37
Artist Ann Hirsch on Sexuality, Cooptation and the Internet
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 t...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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49:51
Artist Erica Scourti: Self-technologies, deep-acting and resistance
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 in...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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52:46
Selfies, still lives, self-discipline and subversion with artist/author Dawn Woolley
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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1:16:57
Artist/Author Season Butler Accommodates Complexity
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 th...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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1:05:06
Whip-smart, hard-working Polish Artist-turned-Author Ania Bas
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, unethica...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:11:05
Quick Announcement
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
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:27
Artist Karen McLean: Materials as Metaphors for Resilience and Resistance
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:05:14
Know Your Worth with Marina Press Granger of The Artist Advisory
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. Mindse...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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58:09
Gavin Turk: Success, privilege and parallel universes
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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32:56
Embrace Failare with John Kilduff (aka Mr. Let's Paint)
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 discus...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:06:59
Drag King Sigi Moonlight: Personas, pleasure and femininity
🏳️🌈 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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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40:58
Painting death, dinosaurs and dick pics with Glen Pudvine
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 dig...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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46:02
The Golden Brown Girls, thank you for being a friend
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 i...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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45:52
Jet Moon plays with fire
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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53:18
Awkward conversations with Daniel Oliver
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 in...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:16:57
The Revolution Is Buffering with Oozing Gloop
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 pe...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:00:51
Marisa Carnesky Showwoman
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.
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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56:11
Transparency is my only weapon with Eirini Kartsaki
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 o...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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42:49