Fugue Chat
Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau
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About This Podcast
Join Matt as he walks or drives around, talking to himself and other people about art, life, teaching, experiences and feelings.
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Class (re-performance)
Matt walks through a field and tries to re-perform a previous podcast where he had talked about Maria Fusco and class.
Snail Song
Matt talks about the children’s book Snail Song and then sings his version of the poem from that book. (Correction: Matt gets the author’s name totally wrong. Snail Song is written by Judith Nicholls…
Are you a dad?
Matt talks about how he’s probably going to spend less time talking about being a dad.
Broken Premise
Matt talks about unreliable narrators, Greta Olsen’s article, ‘Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators’, and the idea of an implied author.
Height/Laying Still
A double bill! Matt talks about getting his own height wrong and about how pleasant it is to lay still for a while while having an ECG.
Rehearsal
Matt talks about rehearsing.
Coffee
Matt talks about coffee.
Nietzschean Digestion
Matt talks about Friedrich Nietzsche and his obsession with literal and metaphorical digestion
Class Politics: Part 2
Matt talks about conversations he had about something Maria Fusco said at a talk about class, social mobility and networking and worries about the way he unthinkingly introduces provocative topics…
Class Politics: Part 1
Matt talks about something he heard Maria Fusco say at a talk about class, social mobility and networking. This is part one of a two part episode.
Character
Matt and Joe walk around Nine Elms and talk about character.
Sentimentalism
Matt talks about Anselm Kiefer, Karl Ove Knausgård, and getting sentimental as you get older.
Going Back to Old Work
Matt speaks to Rebecca about going back to old ways of making and revisiting old ideas.
Writing a Proposal
Matt talks about writing a proposal and how it helped him think about his work.
Proximity
Matt and Ross talk about proximity in art while Ross walks around M&S to get out of the wind.
Educational Embarrassment
Matt talks about embarrassment as an important, but volatile, feeling in education.
Bad Pay for Artists
Matt talks about how the more you study art, the less you’ll be paid.
Unreliable Readers
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…
Homeowner Sublime
Matt writes about a drainage issue and talks about different kinds of sublime.
What is a Fugue Chat Anyway?
Matt tries to describe Fugue Chat as a performance project that exists as a podcast.
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Fugue Chat has published 79 episodes since April 2025, covering topics in Arts, Comedy.
Fugue Chat is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 13m.
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