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Oriana interviews the artist, curator and director of Home Live Art, Katy Baird. The two discuss appearance, gentrification, addiction and staying up all night.

The activist, artist, academic and mother Lena Simic provides Oriana with some practical advice about how to become more politically active while balancing the demands of work, motherhood and art.

Artist Hannah Ballou discusses her recent feminist, autobiographical film project Goo Go II, which documents her high-risk pregnancy, a sequel to the performance piece Goo Ga I in which she reclaims fertility as spectacle.

Straight, white, male, heterosexual painter Glen Pudvine for The O Show live edition @mimosahouselondon. The two discuss the artistic process, gender, authenticity, and, of course dick pics.

Oriana catches up with art star Gavin Turk, as it’s been three years since he was a guest on The O Show “Business or Pleasure” episode. They discuss success, shame, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as Gavin’s new projects.

In this post-podcast follow-up interview, stand-up comic Jaye McBride’s discusses toxic masculinity, trans stereotypes and suicide. It’s a laugh riot!

Performance artist Daniel Oliver discusses the daring mix of pre-planning, chance, nakedness and collaboration in his work, which he wants audiences to be euphoric about or made uncomfortable by, anything but indifferent.

Sigi Moonlight (aka Jacqui Bardelang) speaks about the various personas he takes on as a drag king to subvert binary gender norms and racial stereotypes through seduction. Sigi reveals that paradoxically he has gotten more in touch with his feminine side through drag kinging.

Artist Karen McLean addressed her use of materials symbolic of and honouring the agency and resistance of enslaved women in the Caribbean; the emotions making this work entailed; and the poignant and unexpected resonance it has in relation to current events. Other subjects discussed included reparations and Roe v. Wade. [NB: Unfortunately, the IG recording of this interview was lost. However, we recorded a new interview for the podcast.]

Artist Erica Scourti’s work mines the intersections of autobiography and collective experience through everyday media and in particular, social media and its algorithms. It is a fascinating discussion, especially if you want to know what it's like to treat Twitter as if it's your potential boyfriend.

Queer, working-class, disabled artist and writer Jet Moon discusses their varied practice including live performance, anti-austerity activism, sex work and facilitating writing workshops for survivors.

The Golden Brown Girls, aka Indrani Ashe and Shannon Tamara Lewis, discuss the imagined futures that their eponymous web series presents compared to their lived reality in an age of austerity. They also address the show’s centring of women of colour protagonists.

Artist Eirini Kartsaki expounds on living a life free from norms and expectations, a life that is weird, inconsistent, too much and without children.

Marisa Carnesky’s accessible, provocative and political work entails showwomanship, raw talent and collaboration. It also addresses womanly subject matter including menstruation and miscarriage.

The world’s premier green autistic drag queen, Oozing Gloop expounds on utopian politics, autobiographical performance, autism, non-binary gender and more.

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

Artist and writer Season Butler discusses the motivations behind her debut novel Cygnet and her performance piece Happiness Forgets. Topics covered include the racial empathy bias, climate change and Bill Cosby.

A lot has changed since artist Ann Hirsch started making her Scandalishious work on YouTube, back when the platform had just begun. While it’s much more commonplace now for a woman to explore her sexuality online, the power dynamics at play are still locked and in need of dismantling.

In this interview with Oriana’s brother the filmmaker, playwright and environmental activist, Josh Fox, they discuss the distinct approaches they take to art and politics and what role their upbringing played in their respective paths as political artists.