For the week of 10 – 16 May, Oriana took over Mimosa House London’s Instagram feed. She conducted 20 brand new live interviews with a line up of fabulous guests from the fields of live and fine art, literature and activism.

Humans love hair – on the top of their heads, that is – hair on their bodies, well that’s more complicated. This short documentary takes a close-up look at all aspects of body hair removal for both sexes, revealing the … Continue reading Body Hair Removal

Making a decision is not the opposite of indecision. Actually, too often the compromise is yet more indecision, holding on to all possibilities. The protagonist in Excess Baggage tastes each of the chocolates in the box; she wears all her … Continue reading Excess Baggage

All My Life is part coming-of-age story, part personal mythology. Influenced by the ubiquitous subtexts of synthetic experience, the artist/dancer in All My Life asks, “Is this my life, or is this a Hollywood movie? Am I growing and becoming, … Continue reading All My Life

Ventriloquism, lip-synching, and appropriation all play subversive roles in the post-feminist retro-spoof, Consciousness, Understanding ‘N’ Trust. In it I play a quirky cast of characters including a Betty Crocker brunette, a soap-opera blonde and an air-head redhead as they become … Continue reading Consciousness, Understanding ‘N’ Trust

Inspired by Gillian Wearing’s 2 Into 1 (1997), I interviewed each of my parents, my mother, my father and my stepmother, asking them to speak about me, my personality and our relationships with one another. In the video, I act as … Continue reading 3 Into 1

Tale of Narcissus is the second in the series of videos in which I have set the words of the popular TV series Sex and The City into the mouths of 1970s feminists, all of whom are played by myself. … Continue reading Tale of Narcissus