Multiple Os PODCAST PLAYLIST

Josh Fox is an American film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary Gasland. During the pandemic, he started a talk show called Staying home with Josh Fox, which is available on tyt.com. Most recently Fox launched his own independent network on which you can access all his films for a small monthly or annual contribution.

Katy Baird is an artist, curator and producer of Live Art based in Folkestone, Kent. As an artist Katy has performed at Live Art festivals and venues as well as squat parties, clubs and raves. Her work addresses the things we do for money, identity and consumption. Baird is currently Artistic Director of Home Live Art, producers of live events across Hastings, the South East and beyond.

Lena Simic is an artist, activist, performance maker and researcher, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, living in Liverpool. Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, UK. Her book Maternal Performance co-authored with Emily Underwood-Lee was published in 2021.

Hannah Ballou is a live artist whose practice integrates neo-burlesque, stand-up comedy, and audience participation. She holds a Ph.D. in feminist comedy from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is currently a Lecturer in Drama & Theatre Arts at Kingston Univerity, London.

Eirini Kartsaki is a writer, performance maker and lecturer in East15 Acting School, University of Essex. Her work explores sexuality, excess and female desire. She has been awarded the Audiences Award and the Champe Libre Award for her work with Tante&Tante. Her performances take place across art, theatre and academic contexts.

Marisa Carnesky is an artist, showwoman and practitioner-researcher with her very own production company responsible for original large and small scale interactive performance works. Carnesky Productions is interested in the use of spectacle; fairground rides, magic illusions and grand ritual as a means of creating highly accessible provocative work, rooted in popular culture that promotes cultural and political discourses.

Oozing Gloop's provocative, award-winning experimental live art merges cabaret and performance art. More specifically, their particular brand of 'queer alchemy' entails trans drag storytelling for earthly survival with multiple submissions from other avatars of the chthulucene. Check out their podcast Slurry, co-hosted with Olympia Bukkakis.

Daniel Oliver is a performance artist and scholar who specialises in participatory performance and awkwardness. His experience with dyspraxia has lead to an invested interest in neurodiversity and its place in contemporary performance practices and scholarship. His book Awkwoods: Daniel Oliver’s Dyspraxic Adventures in Participatory Performance was published by Unbound in 2019.

Jet Moon is a writer, performer, director and activist producing politically engaged creative work including events, works and collaborations that push for change, re-evaluation and empowerment. They often operate outside of the traditional arts context, in clubs, autonomous spaces, as part of queer or activist gatherings, traveling to work with marginalised groups and promoting information exchange and mutual aid.

The Golden Brown Girls project was founded in 2014 in London by visual artists Shannon Tamara Lewis and Indrani Ashe. Soon after they invited another artist, Sara Umar to write herself into the script. It's now a growing network of women and creative professionals from across the globe with individual and collaborative practices. Their web series was envisioned as a method of imagining the artists' futures, a stage for their political concerns and a way to create new social structures with like-minded individuals.

Glen Pudvine’s art is more than just dicks and dinosaurs. He uses painting as therapy to tackle existential dread, religion and fear of death.

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. Moonlight was also featured in Them magazine's article "8 Drag Kings you need to know".

John Kilduff of Let’s Paint TV - multi-tasking treadmill painter to the stars - is the man with whom Oriana made her first-ever live web broadcast, the man without whom The O Show would not exist. He paints, exercises, cooks and interacts with audiences in addition to sometimes playing chess, badminton or riding a bicycle. He does it all and embraces failare [sic]!

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.

Marina Press Granger of The Artist Advisory has over a decade of experience working in museums and galleries in New York City. She uses this expertise to advise and motivate artists to pursue career progression and remuneration for their work, dispelling the myth of the starving artist.

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.

Ania Bas is an artist and writer whose work takes diverse forms to create situations that support dialogue and question existing frameworks of participation. Bas’s artwork has been commissioned by the Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Art on the Underground and Yorkshire Artspace and her debut novel Odd Hours was published by Wellbeck in June 2022.

Season Butler is a London/Berlin-based writer, performance artist and teacher, and an associate producer of the I'm With You art collective. Her debut novel Cygnet was published in 2019 by Dialogue Books in the UK and Harper Collins in the US.

Dawn Woolley is the author of Consuming the body: Capitalism, Social Media and Commodification (2022, Bloomsbury). Woolley is also an artist whose work examines representations of gender in advertisements, magazines, on TV and online in order to appropriate their visual language and expose the stereotypes they reproduce. She is currently a research fellow at Leeds Art University.

Erica Scourti is an artist and writer, based in Athens and London whose work mines the intersections of autobiography and collective experience through everyday media and in particular, social media and its algorithms. She has performed, exhibited and presented talks internationally, at High Line New York, Wellcome Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Hayward Gallery, Munich Kunstverein, ICA London and more.

Ann Hirsch’s video and performance art practice entails participant observation within myriad mediated contexts. For her project entitled Scandalishious, Hirsch became a YouTube camwhore with over two million video views and then made an appearance as a contestant on Frank the Entertainer…In a Basement Affair on Vh1. Her artwork has been shown to acclaim at MOCA Los Angeles; Performa, New York; South London Gallery, London; and the New Museum, New York.

Scottee is a self-taught, multi-award-winning actor who has received critical acclaim for his work in theatre and audio. A multi-hyphenate, with a career spanning over 15 years, Scottee has demonstrated an ability to work successfully across art forms. www.instagram.com/scotteeisfat

Angela Fox was The O Show staff psychologist from 2011-2013 and Oriana’s mother since 1978.

Hamja Ahsan is an artist, activist and the author of Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert (2017) published by Bookworks. Among his many accolades, Ahsan won the Grand Prize at the 2019 Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts and has been selected for participation in Documenta 15.

Joshua Sofaer is an artist who is centrally concerned with modes of collaboration and participation, which he explores through social sculpture, performance, installation, exhibition and publication. Equally as comfortable in the clean white gallery, the dramatic stage of the opera house, the carefully positioned vitrine of the museum, the shared areas of public space, and the domestic personalised rooms of private homes, what draws Sofaer’s diverse practices together is a concern with how audiences engage with the world as a place of potentiality.

Charlotte Cooper is an artist, writer, psychotherapist and activist. It seems like there’s nothing she doesn’t do; she dances, makes music, produces zines and genealogies. She has collaborated with an enviable list of artists and most prominently with her girlfriend Kay Hyatt. The two perform as Homosexual Death Drive, a genre-defying band with irreverent lyrics and eye-popping music videos. Cooper's decades-long work on fat, like her performance practice, defies categorisation. A new edition of her book Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, was published in June 2021.

Indrani Ashe is a US-born, Goldsmiths-educated, Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist of Bengali and white American descent whose practice speaks to the experience of the body as a political vessel, wresting the narrative from hegemonical structures. Her project 50 Dates of Grey earned mainstream press coverage from outlets such as Grazia, The Daily Mail and The Mirror bringing her blog 31,000 views to date.

Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice. Offeh is interested in the space created by the inhabiting or embodying of histories. He employs humour as a means to confront the viewer with historical narratives and contemporary culture.

Professor Lois Weaver is the director and co-founder (with long-time collaborator Peggy Shaw) of the company Split Britches, which among many accolades, won the Innovative Theatre Awards (USA) Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award in 2017. Weaver is also a professor of contemporary performance at Queen Mary University of London. She also pioneered a form of public engagement called the long table.

Jo Van Every is a feminist sociologist and academic writing coach. She wrote the book Heterosexual Women Changing the Family: Refusing to be a wife back in 1995 and doing feminism by living in anti-sexist ways has been her durational project ever since. She is also a parent (to a grown kid) and a partner to her unmarried spouse of thirty years.

Juliet Jacques is a writer, filmmaker and cultural critic who has written three books and an array of essays for a variety of publications including but not limited to The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Frieze, New York Times, The Washington Post, TimeOut, New Inquiry, The New Statesman. She writes on topics that reflect her expertise in and passion for literature and the arts more generally, trans politics, anti-capitalism and, of course, football. Her most recent book is Variations (InFlux, 2021).

Ope Lori uses lens-based media to draw the viewer in through the ways that looking dynamics, are turned upside down, from positions of power to powerlessness, from being passive spectators to consciously viewing participants. She is interested in the use of aesthetics in making visually pleasing screen images, but which also draws the viewer into the work, by experiencing the image through desire and pleasure, playing with both our social and internal politics.

Jaye McBride is a smart, funny and proudly transgender woman. Based in Brooklyn, she has travelled the world performing stand-up comedy both as a headliner and sharing the stage with comedy greats. McBride has appeared on Comedy Central and has broken through barriers by being named the first transgender comic to be passed into regular rotation at Broadway Comedy Club. She also delivers talks on being trans in colleges around the states and has written, produced and acted in a variety of short films. In addition to being an activist for trans visibility, she also works to ensure women's right to choose.

Season Butler is a London/Berlin-based writer, performance artist and teacher, and an associate producer of the I'm With You art collective. Her debut novel Cygnet was published in 2019 by Dialogue Books in the UK and Harper Collins in the US.

Nina Power is a cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher and translator. She was a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University. Her book What do men want? is due for publication by Penguin in 2022.

Katherine Araniello (b. 1965, d. 2019, London) was a live art, performance and video artist. She was also a member of The Disabled Avant-Garde with fellow artist Aaron Williamson. Her videos are accessible via her youtube channel and her archive is held at Queen Mary University of London.