Fugue Chat

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…

Old Music 02.07.2025 13:27 ↓

Matt and Ross talk about festivals, and how they feel about the music they listened to as teenagers.

The Limits of Admission 02.07.2025 12:38 ↓

Matt talks about the limits of what we are willing to admit in public. Can we ever really admit our failings?

A Bald Dad 26.06.2025 12:06 ↓

Matt talks about being bald and making jokes about baldness. He also proposes a new belief that he thinks should be commonly held: that men who carry on having full head of hair after the age of about 40 look ridiculous.

Lollipop People 18.06.2025 16:58 ↓

Matt reflects on his paranoia about whether the lollipop people near his work like him or not.

Interviews 17.06.2025 17:41 ↓

It’s a hot day. Matt talks about a job interview and then gets distracted by global politics.

Who says vibe? 10.06.2025 ↓

Matt and Ross chat about whether vibe is a young person word anymore and what different people might mean when they say it. Then they talk about being middle aged for a while. There’s also a high pitched screeching noise for a bit which is less present on the recording than it was in real life.

Getting Older 06.06.2025 13:00 ↓

Matt talks about turning 40, getting sentimental and the meaning of milestones.

Resentment 05.06.2025 ↓

Matt walks through Hendon in the rain, talking about resentment and the far right, and how resentment is a performance that constitutes the hierarchy that the far right uses to justify it’s political programme(s). He mentions Richard Seymour's new book 'Disaster Nationalism'.