Matt walks to the library and talks about Object Oriented Ontology, Ed Atkins, and the NPC and POV trends on social media.

Matt walks around campus and talks about how being an artist trains you to make decisions, and how we find the edges of what can be talked about in art practice, and what has to be passed over in silence.

Matt tells the story of a forgotten artwork based on a denim tote bag made by the artist James Richards’ as part of ‘Music for the gift’, his Wales in Venice project from 2017. Warning: Matt sings a song at the end.

Matt walks to work and talks about memories he didn’t ask for.

Matt walks a slightly different route to work and talks about different kinds of boredom.

Matt walks from Lewisham to New Cross and talks about theme parks, art and the relationship between class, taste and the intensity of aesthetic experiences. Not quite a trigger warning: this episode opens with me referring to and deconstructing a dismissive and classist joke that I made to my wife.

In episode 1 I walk from the dentists, through Lewisham market, back home. I talk about being clumsy, but eloquent. And the differences and connections between speaking and acting. My voice sounds weird at the start because I enhanced the audio with the Adobe AI podcast app, but after a while it kind of works out what I really sound like.