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
Class Politics: Part 2
Matt talks about conversations he had about something Maria Fusco said at a talk about class, social mobility and networking and worries about the way he unthinkingly introduces provocative topics into conversations. This is part two of a two part episode.
Class Politics: Part 1
Matt talks about something he heard Maria Fusco say at a talk about class, social mobility and networking. This is part one of a two part episode.
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.
Unreliable Readers
Matt talks about an article by Greta Olson called ‘Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators’ and comes up with his own categories of untrustworthy authors and unreliable readers.
Homeowner Sublime
Matt writes about a drainage issue and talks about different kinds of sublime.
What is a Fugue Chat Anyway?
Matt tries to describe Fugue Chat as a performance project that exists as a podcast.
Getting sentimental over the long 90s
Matt walks through Deptford and talks about why Nev Clay’s song Staff Room makes him feel sentimental for a magical time when people drank tea, smoked Bensons and were in the Animal Liberation Front: the 90s.
Skill and Deskilling
Matt and Dan walk around Peckham and talk about skill in art, performance, and in teaching those subjects.
The Dot (Part 2)
Matt talks about his theory of the dot after he has done a live podcast recording on the same topic to see if he thinks different things. This is part 2, part 1 was recorded before the podcast recording.
The Dot (Part 1)
Matt talks about his theory of the dot before he goes to do a live podcast recording on the same topic. This is part 1. He’ll come back and do part 2 after he does the live recording and see if he thinks different things.