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Multiple OsFamous for 15 people with performance artist Robin DeaconVeteran 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...2025-03-101h 00
Multiple OsFake it till you make it with artist Martha WilsonThis episode features an interview from Oriana's archive - a 2016 discussion with feminist art foremother Martha Wilson whose audacious work explores appearance and subjectivity through self-representation, both live and to camera. Wilson's important work provocatively teases out the relationship between the personal, the institutional and the political to question gendered double standards. Making art in the context of the 1970s when Wilson first started, entailed acting as if she had the confidence to take on the identity of artist, despite creativity being misunderstood to be a male-only pursuit. Galvanised by her detractors instead of discouraged, Wilson's method of faking...2024-12-2838 min
Multiple OsLabour, Care and Solidarity with Charlotte Warne ThomasOriana 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 her art practice, which explores the relationships between labour, care and value. She delves into the ideologies behind the notions of meritocracy, 'labours of love' and talent. Matters of uncomfortable self-disclosure, specifically around privilege checking are also discussed. Lastly, the conversation turns to Charlotte's self-presentation online and the admirable frankness with which she discusses her challenges juggling the demands of being...2024-10-041h 05
Multiple OsNando Messias: Violence, Fantasy and Trans VisibilityOriana 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 v...2024-09-121h 03
Multiple OsChinasa Vivian Ezugha: Voice, Activism and Safe SpacesOriana 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 Ezugha2024-08-291h 05
Multiple OsChinasa Vivian Ezugha: Because of HairArtist 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 sculptural object that, when worn, functioned as a catalyst for interpersonal and affective exchange, prompting myriad and often disturbingly violent reactions. Because of Hair reflects Ezugha's understanding of the politics of hair from her perspective as an Igbo woman living in Britain and also prompted her to make new work about the Biafran war, which deeply impacted her family...2024-08-1557 min
Multiple OsShame, Envy and Midlife Crises with Oriana Fox and Felicity AllenThe 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, seriousness and aesthetics in art. If you're struggling with a mid-career slump or suffering due to the upward comparison that social media breeds, this episode is for you!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...2024-08-021h 06
Multiple OsThe Disoeuvre with Artist Felicity AllenOriana 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 stretches to encompass what is traditionally excluded from an artist's body of work, i.e. work carried out in institutions and the home, reflecting the adaptability of the practitioner as she responds to the demands of life. The sought-after 'real' artist's oeuvre commands increasing acclaim, while those artists impacted by precarity and contingency experience recognition only sporadically. Thus the discussion turns to these tender and sensitive...2024-07-2557 min
Multiple OsSeason 2 Finale: Curing Scottee's Academiaphobia with staff psychologist Angela FoxIn 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, Angela Fox, Oriana's mum. It also works to bookend the past year in which our host devoted herself full-time to being an academic. It features Scottee, our national treasure of live art, podcasting and yoga instruction, confessing to his deep-seated and debilitating academia-phobia. [Spoiler alert: It's not actually a phobia!] Angela shares some sage advice with Scottee and...2024-07-1228 min
Nada Fue Un Error Podcast#Storytime | El día que me despidieron | Nada Fue Un Error Podcast🎧Más contenido.
Queremos explorar más sobre nuestras experiencias y compartirlas con uds, por eso, hoy venimos a contar un acontecimiento reciente en la vida de Oriana, con la que podemos identificarnos todos y que hemos llamado: el día que me despidieron.
Pues sí, como todo en la vida hay ciclos que cumplen su función y lo laboral no escapa de ello. ¿Cómo se va de ser un prospecto para un ascenso hacia un despido? ¿Cómo enfrentar el abuso y el hostigamiento? ¿Cómo ser fiel a sí mismo?
Acompáñanos y escucha este #storytime que...2023-05-2438 min