Multiple Os Oriana Fox

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 two million video views and then made an appearance as a contestant on Frank the Entertainer…In a Basement Affair on Vh1. Much has changed since that pioneering YouTube work, which was made back in 2008 when the platform had only just begun. While it’s much...

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 invention of new media; mental health and technology; and the possiblity of resistance in the face of capitalist cooptation. This interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can w...

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 of contemporary consumerism and the commodified construction of ideal gendered bodies, paying particular attention to the new forms of interaction produced by social networking sites. In short, there’s a lot of analysis of the phenomenon of the selfie.The book ...

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 the racial empathy bias, climate change, activism and Bill Cosby. This interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video here. We followed it up with a longer interview...

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, unethical supermarket and lives in a badly-lit zone 3 flatshare. The book contains unidealised migrants, a self-help book-within-a-book, short and sharp poetry and some saucy scenes. The elevator pitch reads: "Odd Hours is a whip-smart social comedy for those of us who ...

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 Odd Hours was published earlier this summer. The previously announced interview with guest Dawn Woolley, author of the academic book Consuming the Body will drop in October. Credits:Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana FoxIntroductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's PaintOriginal theme song written and performed by Paulette HumanbeingSpe...