DB10 - Unhinged, obscene, and disruptive -

In this episode Melletios and Tim discuss charity collectors,hot lecturers, wheelchairs using bike lanes and a design for a perfect cow killer. We (finally) get to Paul Preciado’s Pharmacopornography . We discuss the history of biopower via Kodak, fallout shelters and Miss Atomic Bomb. All of this for Tim to arrive at his “trauma” of being kicked out of a mall by mall cops. This shit is killing us...

In this episode our painting is selected for the Salon des Refusés, and Melletios goes to the opening. He embarrasses himself but somehow makes friends with Craig Foster. Meanwhile Tim tries to start, but Melletios needs to know what brand of salt Tim puts in his hair. Eventually Tim discusses Effigy Attack and the laws around paintings being treated as actual humans (for the purposes of being han...

DJ Delicious Mellicious takes a call from his mum and explains to her what a podcast is. We discuss why clapping alone is weird, but it’s even weirder when people clap alone, together. Melletios just wants to be clapped to sleep. Tim just wants to make music with a pasta machine. Both just want to be an anti-fascist spectacle. We discuss the history of the spectacleas moving from being to having t...

In this episode we discuss (eventually) Roland Barthes’ 1973“The Pleasure of the Text”. We dive into the cut between pleasure and bliss, administration and abolition, comprehension and noise. We travel vertically through time, trying to escape the horizontality of property, debt and prisons. How can we find the vertical when we are forced to wait? How can we reclaim agency from the narrative fanta...

In this episode we talk about making art in the end times. Whathappens when the end doesn’t come? Melletios runs around naked, Tim takes drugs to dull the pain, and Malevich is stuck painting squares, forever. We discuss eschatology and the death drive as opposing forces in art making that tries to deal with the death of art (and everything else). We throw in dead supervisors, Heaven’s Gate cult,...

Recorded in a gallery full of ghosts, tradie dust, and caffeine. Art school nostalgia, fascist cubes, horny helium metaphors, the politics of skill versus expression. Teenage HSC trauma & Morandi's fascism. Claude Cahun's anti-fascist love story & the erotic tragedy of the Australian adult. Shame, cringe, pedagogy, the death of sincerity in a world obsessed with skill. Seriousness...

Recorded inside an echoing Tin Sheds Gallery at Sydney University while tradies lay floorboards in the next room and reality starts to warp. Teenage dancers take down the monarchy. A Rolex gets scratched into a manifesto. Hornsleth buys a village with livestock. The line between satire and sincerity dissolves. Silence becomes violent. Cringe becomes sacred. Art school gets roasted. Silence is poli...

Straightness collapses in on itself, the gallery becomes a scene of violence, and PornHub statistics replace national identity? This episode dives into queer public sex, Mona Hatoum’s electrified domesticity, the failures of heterosexuality as both ideology and kink, and the lingering scent of burnt patriarchy in art spaces that still smell like bleach. A lecture, a glitch, a beat you won’t be the...

DB10: Klein, Kristeva, and Cop Cars! We navigate the wreckage of straight desire and the shadow spaces of queer longing in this unhinged exploration of gut fantasies, suburban beats, and the surveillance of pleasure. What connects curdled milk to ADHD stimulants? How do abandoned wedding venues become sites of homosocial possibility? And why does playing Nutbush in a disco-lit bushland feel like b...

This week, we walk down King Street on a Friday night and go to a funk/jazz/trance fusion gig, all to try and see what men do when they get together in public. We close our eyes and find the same (giving) head movement in jazz and heavy metal. Tim brings a million year old shit to the recording for some reason, but smooths it over like the hem of his McQueen skirt. Melletios collects rocks from th...

Premature ejaculation, tradie funk, Barbara Kruger, Chatroulette, and the crisis that never ends. Thisepisode tackles the sweaty aesthetics of masculinity and the violence of straight male desire. From schoolyards to sports fields, from public confrontations to the digital shadows of webcam sex, Melletios and Tim wade through the rituals that shape, perform, and deny straight male identity. In thi...

This week we dive into the straight generic of Sabrina Carpenter. Tim becomes intoxicated by what he hates and Melletios has a revelation about dildos. We discuss how Carpenter’s almost all white, all straight women audience are a symptom of late-stage heterosex, where desire goes to die and find solidarity and acrimony in a shared aisthesis ofdisappointment. Carpenter’s explicit generic is both c...

This week Tim has an identity crisis over a bottle of Aldi wine. Melletios tries to be serious because he doesn’t know who Sabrina Carpenter is. *ha. In this episode, we define the generic as a product of industrial capitalism that evacuates desire through the normative. We discuss (Big Daddy) Freud’s palliative measures as a generic coping mechanism. In Part 1 we talk about Goodluck Babe and Chap...

Part 2 of the Dino Conspiracy. This time, we evict Jurassic Park, relocate the fossilised fantasy, and ask what it means to seek authenticity in a world curated by spectacle. I read Tim's astrological chart, focusing on the shadow side, as we explore the monstrous aesthetics of AI, the neo-fascist futurism of tech bros, and the masculine fantasy of taming the nuclear. From T. rex to Scorpio, p...

Terrible Lizards, The Chapwoman Sisters ~ a Dino and a Jake: Dinosaurs and museums became cultural capital, their bones rearranged into narratives of power, spectacle, and control. Our fascination with terrible lizards reveals more than just prehistoric awe, it exposes the intersections of art, politics, and myth-making in society. From fossilized monsters to postmodern critique, this episode unea...

Endless loops, compulsions, and the unbearable - this episode spirals through repetition as art, theory, and perverse insistence. From Malevich’s lingering ghost to Sarah Lucas and MSCHF, from the death drive to social reproduction, from lipstick to glory holes, everything returns, everything resists resolution. Tim & Melletios slip between the obscene and the profound, pooping back and forth...

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/MDzofQhiZUE?si=0I0KCJSpfbu7xkEo A wild seal, an aquarium visit, and a postmodern critique of Hamilton—this episode plunges into the absurd, the obscene, and the unhinged. From aggressive counter-readings of musicals to the uncanny parallels between porn and theatre, Melletios and Tim unravel the tangled web of leisure, labour, and the spectacle of postmodern desire....

Youtube link with slides Clowns and Dildos collide in a provocative exploration of the autonomy of art. The dildo, historically maligned and fetishised, emerges as a tool of resistance—a postmodern weapon wielded against patriarchal control and violence. Detached from the oppressive gaze, it embodies fluidity, rebellion, and empowerment, challenging the constructs of male dominance. In this Christ...

Tim Gregory formally known as The Doctor Tim Ge and Melletios Kyriakidis explore the nuanced connections between personal experiences, art, and memory. They examine how moments of crisis—whether it be confrontations with authority, or experiencing the fall into language (a Lacan quote )—shape artistic expression and our understanding of identity. The episode delves into the complex ways artists do...

Sonic Subversion: The Undead Cargo of Cries - Dr Tim Gregory and artist/shoplifter Melletios Kyriakidis explore how screaming has evolved into a language of resistance. They trace its journey from the harrowing cries of slavery to contemporary forms of sonic protest. Improvisational music as a descendant of historical screams, debating notions of "art boredom" and "laborious discord". The synthesi...

In this unconventional discourse podcast series, artists and academics Tim Gregory and Melletios Kyriakidis explore the intersection of art and the fantastical. "The Didactic Menu: A Zombie Guide to Cannibalism" merges critical theory with speculative inquiry, examining the challenge of teaching the undead through the lens of nutrition. Drawing inspiration from the film 'The Menu' 2022, this episo...

Episode 3: The Culinary Arts of Revolution In this inaugural release of 'After Hours' (because good things start at three just like the iPhone3), hosts Tim and Tios serve up a feast for the mind. The episode begins with a savoury exploration of Greek cuisine, sourdough and culture before pivoting to a hearty discussion on the current state of the world. As the conversation simmers, our hosts stir...