Matt talks about taking the weather personally and what Alanis Morissette was singing about if she wasn’t singing about irony.
Filmed Sculpture
Matt talks about two video works, ‘House Dances’ (2007) by Maren Hassinger and ‘Dad’s Stick’ (2012) by John Smith which through their deployment of various filmic techniques (performance, speech, on screen text, editing, sequencing and montage) constitute their on screen objects as sculptures.
Mediated Performances
Matt drives to the station and talks about the virtual, the actual, the real, the true, the immediate and the mediated.
Dr. Evil
Matt talks about trying to remember, and then slowly remembering, the Dr. Evil monologue about his childhood from the Austin Powers film. I got the monologue from this amazing old website: https://www.whysanity.net/monos/
Do You Actually Need to Look at Your Phone?
Matt talks about trying to look at his phone less.
Philip Guston and the Neoexpressionists
Matt takes an early morning walk and thinks about how the fate of Philip Guston’s late work was tied to the rise of the Neoexpressionists.
London Liverpool Street 2
Matt and Ross meet at London Liverpool Street for the second in an occasional series of episodes from the station. This time we wander around the Whole Foods Market on Blomfield Street, but we begin with Ross showing Matt how to fold up a Brompton bike.
Swearing at Inanimate Objects
Matt talks about swearing at inanimate objects.
Ants
Matt talks about having ants.
Art as a Hobby
Matt talks about whether it is better to have art as a hobby rather than a career.
Forms are Facts
Matt talks about biography in art, and how forms are facts.
Art and Grift
Matt talks about the relationship between art and the 21st century grift economy.
Set for Life (Lottery Mindset part 3)
Matt walks back from the reservoir and talks to Sophie about playing the lottery.
Peasant Mindset
Matt walks to the reservoir and talks about how he might have ‘peasant mindset’.
Holding a Door Open for Prince William
Matt talks about the time he had to hold a door open for Prince William.
The Admin of Fantasy (Lottery Mindset part 2)
Matt describes a fantasy about winning the lottery being interrupted, but also sustained, by detailed planning around the administration and accounting of such a win.
Lottery Mindset
Matt looks for a VC5 document while he talks about ‘lottery mindset’ or ‘lottery mentality’ which is an attitude predicated on the fantasy of getting a lucky break which somehow fixes your life or resolves all of your problems.
Anecdotes and Access Riders (Anecdotalism part 3)
Matt and Dan talk about anecdotes in relation to Dan’s idea of neurotransgression. The article Dan wrote about neurotransgression is here: Daniel Oliver. ‘Live Art and Neurotransgression’. Contemporary Theatre Review 34, no. 3 (2024): 280–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2024.2388027.
Unfinished Work
Matt and Rebecca walk, and then drive, as they talk about unfinished artworks of different kinds, including Le Crocrodrome de Zig & Puce by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely from 1977, and Anthony McCall’s failed artwork, Column, from 2012. n.b Matt says McCall received £100,000 of funding, but the true figure was around £535,000.
Ants
Matt talks about ants.