Fugue Chat

Rehearsal 01.04.2026 ↓

Matt talks about rehearsing.

Coffee 26.03.2026 ↓

Matt talks about coffee.

Nietzschean Digestion 25.03.2026 ↓

Matt talks about Friedrich Nietzsche and his obsession with literal and metaphorical digestion

Character 13.03.2026 ↓

Matt and Joe walk around Nine Elms and talk about character.

Sentimentalism 11.03.2026 ↓

Matt talks about Anselm Kiefer, Karl Ove Knausgård, and getting sentimental as you get older.

Going Back to Old Work 04.03.2026 ↓

Matt speaks to Rebecca about going back to old ways of making and revisiting old ideas.

Writing a Proposal 03.03.2026 ↓

Matt talks about writing a proposal and how it helped him think about his work.

Proximity 26.02.2026 ↓

Matt and Ross talk about proximity in art while Ross walks around M&S to get out of the wind.

Educational Embarrassment 25.02.2026 ↓

Matt talks about embarrassment as an important, but volatile, feeling in education.

Bad Pay for Artists 24.02.2026 ↓

Matt talks about how the more you study art, the less you’ll be paid.

Unreliable Readers 23.02.2026 ↓

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 16.02.2026 ↓

Matt writes about a drainage issue and talks about different kinds of sublime.

What is a Fugue Chat Anyway? 11.02.2026 ↓

Matt tries to describe Fugue Chat as a performance project that exists as a podcast.

Getting sentimental over the long 90s 10.02.2026 ↓

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 09.02.2026 ↓

Matt and Dan walk around Peckham and talk about skill in art, performance, and in teaching those subjects.

The Dot (Part 2) 07.02.2026 ↓

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.

The Dot (Part 1) 28.01.2026 ↓

Matt talks about his theory of the dot before he goes to do a live podcast recording on the same topic. This is part 1. He’ll come back and do part 2 after he does the live recording and see if he thinks different things.

Looking at Art IRL 26.01.2026 16:27 ↓

Matt talks about the benefits of looking at art in real life.

Hiding Disappointment 24.01.2026 17:11 ↓

Matt and Sophie talk about moments where they have had to hide their disappointment.

Collecting 23.01.2026 10:58 ↓

Matt summarises some points from a lecture about collecting.

Duration 22.01.2026 20:38 ↓

Matt talks about the duration of the podcast and about maybe doing a longer, live version for an exhibition.

Diagnoses 16.01.2026 14:44 ↓

Matt talks about the feeling of being, and not being, diagnosed.

Not Drinking Water 13.01.2026 8:36 ↓

Matt talks about how he doesn’t drink as much water as he used to.

Feeling Festive 06.01.2026 25:39 ↓

Ho ho ho! For the first podcast of 2026 Matt and Ross have a (slightly late) chat about surprising things that make you feel festive such as: bin days, landlords, going up in the loft, prison escapes and more.

Covid Embarrassment 12.12.2025 12:32 ↓

Matt talks about being embarrassed when people talk about Covid.