Fugue Chat

Ill Children 10.12.2025 10:25 ↓

Matt talks about his daughters being ill. (Spoiler alert: everyone is fine.)

Undermining Yourself 28.11.2025 9:52 ↓

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 27.11.2025 15:33 ↓

Matt drives home and talks about the US artist Lee Lozano’s notebooks

Clearing Sewage 25.11.2025 14:41 ↓

Matt makes meatballs and talks about clearing a blocked drain.

Making Art out of Rubbish 11.11.2025 19:42 ↓

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 05.11.2025 5:24 ↓

Matt talks about having a bad back.

Gaslighting 04.11.2025 11:56 ↓

Matt talks about misremembering where the term gaslighting originated.

Celebrity Traitors (Performing Normal) 24.10.2025 12:35 ↓

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 21.10.2025 21:04 ↓

Matt walks around the reservoir and chats to Ross about clarity and complexity.

Inarticulacy 15.10.2025 13:15 ↓

Matt walks around a reservoir in Suffolk and talks about being inarticulate.

Taking Notes 07.10.2025 13:42 ↓

Matt talks about the various platforms that he uses to take notes and make lists.

Men's Facewash and Packet Lattes 30.09.2025 23:05 ↓

Matt cycles to work and 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 19.09.2025 7:05 ↓

Matt speaks about being proud of his students.

I'm Not Coming Back 11.09.2025 7:36 ↓

Matt describes a performance work he never made.

Shouting at a child in a soft play 10.09.2025 9:58 ↓

Matt drives back from the train station and talks about getting angry and shouting at another child in a soft play.

Lewisham Shopping Centre 20.08.2025 14:08 ↓

Matt talks about minor features of Lewisham shopping centre.

Relief 15.08.2025 11:44 ↓

Matt and Ross talk about the feeling of being relieve. Content warning: Matt mentions the genocide in Palestine near the end of the podcast.

Radio 14.08.2025 11:34 ↓

Matt talks about finding a radio show he likes.

Ambivalence Part Two 12.08.2025 19:10 ↓

Matt speaks to Sophie about ambivalence and what it means to leave the art world.

Shims 04.08.2025 7:03 ↓

Matt talks about some shims that stopped his toilet from wobbling from 2018-2025.

Ambivalence 01.08.2025 18:04 ↓

Matt speaks about being ambivalent towards art and how he has never been very good at being reverent.

Being Tired 17.07.2025 16:19 ↓

Matt talks about being tired and how boring it is when someone tells you about how tired they are.

Déjà vu 15.07.2025 12:46 ↓

Matt talks about the very private, and ultimately meaningless feeling of Déjà vu.

Inheritance 09.07.2025 12:21 ↓

Matt talks about the behaviours he has inherited from his dad.

Being Forty 09.07.2025 25:22 ↓

Matt and Sophie talking about being 40. But there’s a twist! It turns out Sophie isn’t actually 40! How old is she? Listen to find out…