This episode is an interview that Oriana carried out in the summer of 2017 with the artist Katherine Araniello. Sadly, Araniello passed away in February 2019, but she leaves behind a rich body of work that is politically fearless and infused with subversive humour, some of which is excerpted and contextualised in this episode. Her videos and performances often entailed self-representation, but in forms that were never earnest or preachy, instead they aimed to provoke and challenge. Satire, personas, absurdity, deadpan delivery and playing the victim were some of Araniello's key tools. The discussion focuses on how these play out across various works including her vlogs, her public interventions addressing assisted suicide and her crowd-funding campaign aimed at producing a professional music video for her song "Miracle of life". In this way, the conversation also inevitably touches upon the representations of disability that Araniello's work rallied against and her nonconformist appearance in everyday life. Spoiler alert: we talk at length about her hairdo!

Dr Oriana Foxis a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

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. 

Credits:

• Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana Fox
• Post-production mixing by Stacey Harvey
• Themesong written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
• Special thanks to Tracey Jannaway, Alistair Araniello, Joan Araniello, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses. 

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