Episodes
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Reading the feed…
Matt drives to a Chinese takeaway and talks about Isabelle Graw’s article ‘Talk ‘Til You Drop: The Art Conversation and the Communication Imperative,’, from Mousse magazine, first published in 2006.
Matt puts the washing out and talks about a man he saw digging a hole on a Cornish beach.
Matt talks about taking the weather personally and what Alanis Morissette was singing about if she wasn’t singing about irony.
Matt talks about two video works, ‘House Dances’ (2007) by Maren Hassinger and ‘Dad’s Stick’ (2012) by John Smith which through their deployment of various filmic techniques (performance, speech, on screen text, editing, sequencing and montage) constitute their on screen objects as sculptures.
Matt drives to the station and talks about the virtual, the actual, the real, the true, the immediate and the mediated.
Matt talks about trying to remember, and then slowly remembering, the Dr. Evil monologue about his childhood from the Austin Powers film. I got the monologue from this amazing old website: https://www.whysanity.net/monos/
Matt talks about trying to look at his phone less.
Matt and Ross meet at London Liverpool Street for the second in an occasional series of episodes from the station. This time we wander around the Whole Foods Market on Blomfield Street, but we begin with Ross showing Matt how to fold up a Brompton bike.
Matt talks about swearing at inanimate objects.
Matt talks about having ants.
Matt talks about whether it is better to have art as a hobby rather than a career.
Matt talks about biography in art, and how forms are facts.
Matt talks about the relationship between art and the 21st century grift economy.
Matt walks back from the reservoir and talks to Sophie about playing the lottery.
Matt walks to the reservoir and talks about how he might have ‘peasant mindset’.
Matt talks about the time he had to hold a door open for Prince William.
Matt describes a fantasy about winning the lottery being interrupted, but also sustained, by detailed planning around the administration and accounting of such a win.
Matt looks for a VC5 document while he talks about ‘lottery mindset’ or ‘lottery mentality’ which is an attitude predicated on the fantasy of getting a lucky break which somehow fixes your life or resolves all of your problems.
Matt and Dan talk about anecdotes in relation to Dan’s idea of neurotransgression. The article Dan wrote about neurotransgression is here: Daniel Oliver. ‘Live Art and Neurotransgression’. Contemporary Theatre Review 34, no. 3 (2024): 280–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2024.2388027.
Matt and Rebecca walk, and then drive, while they talk about unfinished artworks of different kinds, including Le Crocrodrome de Zig & Puce by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely from 1977, and Anthony McCall’s failed artwork, Column, from 2012. n.b Matt says McCall received £100,000 of funding, but the true figure was around £535,000.
Matt talks about ants.
Matt talks about the American actor and writer Spalding Gray. Gray deployed the anecdote form across his performances and writing, but for this episode, Matt looks at the piece Gray wrote for the photographer Randal Levenson’s book, In Search of the Monkey Girl from 1982.
Matt and Ross talk about bin collections.
Matt talks about different moments at which he feels more or less able to find the right words.
Matt talks about a weird feeling he had while watching the 2021 Beatles documentary, The Beatles: Get Back. (Matt probably calls it Let it Be in the podcast which is the name of the film from 1970 where lots of the footage comes from.)
