Fugue Chat

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.

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.