Matt drives home and talks about being given a neat idea to frame his PhD work, along with his worry that he’ll undermine it by going on about it for too long.
Lee Lozano's Notebooks
Matt drives home and talks about the US artist Lee Lozano’s notebooks
Clearing Sewage
Matt makes meatballs and talks about clearing a blocked drain.
Making Art out of Rubbish
Matt talks about a workshop he ran with his students where they all went out and picked up things from the streets to make sculpture.
Bad Back
Matt talks about having a bad back.
Gaslighting
Matt talks about misremembering where the term gaslighting originated.
Celebrity Traitors (Performing Normal)
Matt drives home from the station, talking about the Celebrity Traitors and how celebrities are really good at performing normalness. He’s also got a cold.
Clarity and Complexity
Matt walks around the reservoir and chats to Ross about clarity and complexity.
Inarticulacy
Matt walks around a reservoir in Suffolk and talks about being inarticulate.
Taking Notes
Matt talks about the various platforms that he uses to take notes and make lists.
Men's Facewash and Packet Lattes
Matt talks about Men’s facewash, packet lattes, Andrea Long Chu and the erotics of performing the role of the consumer.
n.b This is a re-performance of the episode after I realised the first version's audio quality was terrible.
Pride
Matt speaks about being proud of his students.
I'm Not Coming Back
Matt describes a performance work he never made.
Shouting at a child in a soft play
Matt drives back from the train station and talks about getting angry and shouting at another child in a soft play.
Lewisham Shopping Centre
Matt talks about minor features of Lewisham shopping centre.
Relief
Matt and Ross talk about the feeling of being relieved. Content warning: Matt mentions the genocide in Palestine near the end of the podcast.
Radio
Matt talks about finding a radio show he likes.
Ambivalence Part Two
Matt speaks to Sophie about ambivalence and what it means to leave the art world.
Shims
Matt talks about some shims that stopped his toilet from wobbling from 2018-2025.
Ambivalence
Matt speaks about being ambivalent towards art and how he has never been very good at being reverent.