Matt walks around campus and talks about how being an artist trains you to make decisions, and how we find the edges of what can be talked about in art practice, and what has to be passed over in silence.
Denim Tote Bag
Matt tells the story of a forgotten artwork based on a denim tote bag made by the artist James Richards’ as part of ‘Music for the gift’, his Wales in Venice project from 2017. Warning: Matt sings a song at the end.
Unbidden Memories
Matt walks to work and talks about memories he didn’t ask for.
Work, Boredom and the Autonomy of the Artist
Matt walks a slightly different route to work and talks about different kinds of boredom.
Theme Parks and Contemporary Art
Matt walks from Lewisham to New Cross and talks about theme parks, art and the relationship between class, taste and the intensity of aesthetic experiences. Not quite a trigger warning: this episode opens with me referring to and deconstructing a dismissive and classist joke that I made to my wife.
Stiff Talk
In episode 1 I walk from the dentists, through Lewisham market, back home. I talk about being clumsy, but eloquent. And the differences and connections between speaking and acting. My voice sounds weird at the start because I enhanced the audio with the Adobe AI podcast app, but after a while it kind of works out what I really sound like.