business or pleasure?

Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green - 2018

What are the guiding principles of your working life:

business or pleasure?

Are the dreams and ambitions you strive toward only as satisfying as they are entrepreneurial? In this world, even the most rebellious and anti-materialist of us can begin to feel down about ourselves when viewing our bank balance. In order to question contemporary notions of success, money and happiness, this episode features the socially engaged photographer Eva Sajovic, the art historian and former high-class call girl Marie-Anne Mancio and internationally renowned artist Gavin Turk. To this distinguished and experienced panel we ask: If the market determines what is most valuable in our lives, what happens when the market is wrong? This episode of The O Show may not solve all your economic worries, or fill the void in your wallet, but it sure will help mend the dent that money has made to your pride.

▶ Part 1: The Interviews

▶ Part 2: The Discussion

 

  • Directed, hosted and edited by
    Oriana Fox

    Produced by
    Baron & Baroness Magazines

    Guests
    Eva Sajovic, Marie-Anne Mancio, Gavin Turk

    Stage manager
    Tracey Smith

    Camera Operators
    Kai Fiáin, Roman Manfredi, Magda Christie, Lettie Precious

    Sound engineer
    Stacey Harvey & assistant

    Mentoring by
    Joshua Sofaer

    Special Thanks to
    Matthew Holroyd, Kayleigh Dyke, Richard Masssey, Althea Greenan,
    Angela Monti Fox, Michael Fox, Vilia Hayes, Josh Fox, Alex Monti Fox

GUESTS

  • Eva Sajovic

    Eva Sajovic is a Slovene-born artist photographer, living and working in London. Her focus is on socially engaged, participatory practice through which she explores the drivers of global displacement such as regeneration, poverty, trafficking, culture and climate change. Her work has been commissioned by Tate, Whitechapel Gallery and The National Archives, among others.

  • Gavin Turk

    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.

  • Marie-Anne Mancio

    Marie-Anne Mancio trained as an artist before gaining a PhD in live art, hostessing in London’s Crazy Horse club, and writing historical novel Whorticulture. She’s now a freelance art history lecturer and director of Hotel Alphabet, running art history study trips abroad.

VENUE

 

Producer