Matt talks about different moments at which he feels more or less able to find the right words.
Get Back
Matt talks about a weird feeling he had while watching the 2021 Beatles documentary, The Beatles: Get Back. (Matt probably calls it Let it Be in the podcast which is the name of the film from 1970 where lots of the footage comes from.)
London Liverpool Street
Matt and Ross wander around London Liverpool Street station talking about features such as: the underground gym, the ‘Calm Corner’, and Exchange Square, the new development behind the station. n.b Neither Matt or Ross can remember the term ‘Terrazzo’ for the paving stones in Exchange Square.
Anecdotalism
Matt talks about Sean Cubitt’s article, ‘Anecdotal evidence’ from 2013, and what an anecdotal method to art, research and performance might entail.
The Liveness of Thought
Matt talks about how different techniques he uses across two podcasts construct the liveness of thought.
Class (re-performance)
Matt walks through a field and tries to re-perform a previous podcast where he had talked about Maria Fusco and class.
Snail Song
Matt talks about the children’s book Snail Song and then sings his version of the poem from that book. (Correction: Matt gets the author’s name totally wrong. Snail Song is written by Judith Nicholls and illustrated by Lo Cole.)
Are you a dad?
Matt talks about how he’s probably going to spend less time talking about being a dad.
Broken Premise
Matt talks about unreliable narrators, Greta Olsen’s article, ‘Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators’, and the idea of an implied author.
Height/Laying Still
A double bill! Matt talks about getting his own height wrong and about how pleasant it is to lay still for a while while having an ECG.
Rehearsal
Matt talks about rehearsing.
Coffee
Matt talks about coffee.
Nietzschean Digestion
Matt talks about Friedrich Nietzsche and his obsession with literal and metaphorical digestion
Character
Matt and Joe walk around Nine Elms and talk about character.
Sentimentalism
Matt talks about Anselm Kiefer, Karl Ove Knausgård, and getting sentimental as you get older.
Going Back to Old Work
Matt speaks to Rebecca about going back to old ways of making and revisiting old ideas.
Writing a Proposal
Matt talks about writing a proposal and how it helped him think about his work.
Proximity
Matt and Ross talk about proximity in art while Ross walks around M&S to get out of the wind.
Educational Embarrassment
Matt talks about embarrassment as an important, but volatile, feeling in education.
Bad Pay for Artists
Matt talks about how the more you study art, the less you’ll be paid.