TheOrianaFox

Oriana Fox made her first piece of video art as part of a larger quest to find the perfect feminist role model. Searching through the ubiquitous portrayals of women in mainstream culture to no avail, Fox turned to feminism and queer representations to find what was missing, that is, individuals who question the status quo and are shameless in revealing their own imperfections and fallibility. In her performances and films Fox has taken on a whole host of roles from housewives and exercise goddesses to self-help gurus and Viennese actionists. She takes pleasure in infusing the fantasies of those great mythmakers, TV and Hollywood, with the assertive passion and criticality of feminist and queer art. Still unable to decide between the perks of the mainstream and the liberation of the avant-garde, Fox has begun filming her own chat show to put this question to guest performers, artists and intellectuals with the hope that one day she herself will become as influential as Oprah.