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.
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.