Recorded in a gallery full of ghosts, tradie dust, and caffeine. Art school nostalgia, fascist cubes, horny helium metaphors, the politics of skill versus expression. Teenage HSC trauma & Morandi's fascism. Claude Cahun's anti-fascist love story & the erotic tragedy of the Australian adult. Shame, cringe, pedagogy, the death of sincerity in a world obsessed with skill. Seriousness as rebellion. Expression as failure. Failure the only thing still alive.
Recorded inside an echoing Tin Sheds Gallery at Sydney University while tradies lay floorboards in the next room and reality starts to warp.
Teenage dancers take down the monarchy. A Rolex gets scratched into a manifesto. Hornsleth buys a village with livestock. The line between satire and sincerity dissolves. Silence becomes violent. Cringe becomes sacred. Art school gets roasted. Silence is political. John Cage was 15 once.
This is a lecture .
There’s a theory for everything.
It’s a soft revolution with scaffolding still up.
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Straightness collapses in on itself, the gallery becomes a scene of violence, and PornHub statistics replace national identity? This episode dives into queer public sex, Mona Hatoum’s electrified domesticity, the failures of heterosexuality as both ideology and kink, and the lingering scent of burnt patriarchy in art spaces that still smell like bleach. A lecture, a glitch, a beat you won’t be the same after.
0:00 DB10 begins in chaos: failing audio, artist manifestos, and being an artist by saying you are one
1:29 Coercive networking, follower-capture, and saying “I do this now” as art
2:40 Spelling DB10 wrong, dumb fuckers, and uninvited comedy
3:36 Visual arts are dead: the Gregorian calendar and imagination as practice
5:01 Creation myths, AI entropy, and the horror of accurate reproduction
6:46 AI’s subtle sabotage, fuller lips, face swaps, and algorithmic seduction
8:46 Labour of glitching, Haraway, ontology, and AI’s colonised learning curves
10:01 Mona Hatoum’s Homebound: domestic space, electricity, and dinner table dread
12:15 Art galleries are hospitals: nostalgia, smells, Greek backyards, and cultural erasure
16:00 Structural vs personal trauma, sparking jets, and the colonial conduit
17:08 Is it the spark or the state? Domestic violence as state violence
18:42 Kids hate galleries: forced field trips and the dead museum problem
20:24 Columbia, student protest, collapsing the structure from within
21:23 Heterosexual failure, emotional bricolage, and the shelf-science of the nation
25:17 Fucking monuments: failure in public and the white male artist’s flaccid attempt
31:42 Garbled norms and straightness as elastic propaganda
36:14 Pornhub’s nationalism, cuckold bags, and identity by fantasy algorithm
41:30 Sexuality as transitive, cousin logic, and fucking your nationality
DB10: Part 3 - Klein, Kristeva, and Cop Cars!
We navigate the wreckage of straight desire and the shadow spaces of queer longing in this unhinged exploration of gut fantasies, suburban beats, and the surveillance of pleasure. What connects curdled milk to ADHD stimulants? How do abandoned wedding venues become sites of homosocial possibility? And why does playing Nutbush in a disco-lit bushland feel like both liberation and entrapment?
We sit in a room with Alvin Lucier’s sonic experiments, and the spectral lisp of post-dental trauma, all while interrogating how beat spaces get policed like family structures and desire gets regulated through ritual.
This is part three of the masculine mess, featuring Bronski Beat, cops, cruising, and lots of problematic interruptions. It’s DB10, chaotic and strangely intimate: neuro-divergent, psychoanalytic, and definitely pushing boundaries.
Works cited:
Sadie Barnette, Living Room, 2017
Archie Moore, kith and kin, 2024
Phillip George, Borderlands, 2005
Berlant, Lauren, and Michael Warner. "Sex in public." Critical inquiry 24.2 (1998): 547-566.
M. E. O'Brien, Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care, 2023
Puar, Jasbir K. Terrorist assemblages: Homonationalism in queer times. Duke University Press, 2018.
This week, we walk down King Street on a Friday night and go to a funk/jazz/trance fusion gig, all to try and see what men do when they get together in public. We close our eyes and find the same (giving) head movement in jazz and heavy metal. Tim brings a million year old shit to the recording for some reason, but smooths it over like the hem of his McQueen skirt. Melletios collects rocks from the tar pits of Marrickville, but fails to impress his friends. We settle on settler sexuality as a term that inscribes violence in the everyday desires of straight, bleached men. From Boston Dynamics to True Crime podcasts, we find violence as constitutive of the domestic. Why do we need to turn ourselves into property just to be seen and protected? And if you have read this far…go back to sleep, or if you are Michaela - wake up.
Premature ejaculation, tradie funk, Barbara Kruger, Chatroulette, and the crisis that never ends. Thisepisode tackles the sweaty aesthetics of masculinity and the violence of straight male desire. From schoolyards to sports fields, from public confrontations to the digital shadows of webcam sex, Melletios and Tim wade through the rituals that shape, perform, and deny straight male identity.
In this unhinged, wandering conversation, we ask why straight men are so obsessed with policing queerness while secretly building homosocial bonds. What’s the function of denial? What’s the cost of repetition? And what does it mean to critique masculinity while still playing in the bleached band? We unpack the gendering of public and private space, the difference between care and protection, and why the so-called "crisis of masculinity" has dragged on for nearly two centuries. With Mogwai as our unofficial soundtrack and the bleached stain of privilege as both costume and curse, we stumblethrough misreadings, microaggressions, aggression, and the awkward joy of getting it wrong.
0:00 Fixing mics and Redfernslang
2:32 Trucks, dinosaurs, and fascist aesthetics
5:01 Tradie funk and “smelling like a man”
8:38 The violent tradie on Enmore Road
11:21 Tradies get the ladies: stereotypes and spectacle
13:13 Cops, soldiers, and homoerotic structures
14:19 Webcam sex, Chatroulette, and male-to-male desire
17:23 Straightness, violence, and denial
22:04 Barbara Kruger and the skin of other men
23:25 Boys’ schools and shared adolescent rituals
26:02 Football, scrums, and the spectacle of straightness
29:01 Mogwai marries Sabrina Carpenter
30:59 Masculinity is the problem
33:27 The fake crisis of masculinity
36:49 Protection vs care: gendered politics and power
38:14 The politician, the family, and unwaged labour
40:58 Being read as brown and living inside violence
44:39 Everyday friction and white presentation
47:32 The joy of getting it wrong
48:50 Podcast form as gendered medium
49:40 Disobedience, discomfort, and speaking from within
This week we dive into the straight generic of Sabrina Carpenter. Tim becomes intoxicated by what he hates and Melletios has a revelation about dildos. We discuss how Carpenter’s almost all white, all straight women audience are a symptom of late-stage heterosex, where desire goes to die and find solidarity and acrimony in a shared aisthesis ofdisappointment. Carpenter’s explicit generic is both camouflage and capitulation to compulsory heterosexuality. Her songs are palliative measures to get us to the end. Like the unused dildo beside the marital bed, Carpenter promises afantasy that buys us some time. What we do with that time is the only question we have left. Whatever you do, don’t waste it listening to us.
This week Tim has an identity crisis over a bottle of Aldi wine. Melletios tries to be serious because he doesn’t know who Sabrina Carpenter is. *ha. In this episode, we define the generic as a product of industrial capitalism that evacuates desire through the normative. We discuss (Big Daddy) Freud’s palliative measures as a generic coping mechanism. In Part 1 we talk about Goodluck Babe and Chappell Roan as an example of the queer generic that plays on nostalgia to reveal the emptiness of straight desire. You can try to stop the world, but when you fail, we are here to say I told you so. Until Part 2 (when we talk about Sabrina) have another shot and try to stop the feeling. If you wake up in the middle of the night, put us on, and use us as your palliative, parasocial measure.
Part 2 of the Dino Conspiracy. This time, we evict Jurassic Park, relocate the fossilised fantasy, and ask what it means to seek authenticity in a world curated by spectacle. I read Tim's astrological chart, focusing on the shadow side, as we explore the monstrous aesthetics of AI, the neo-fascist futurism of tech bros, and the masculine fantasy of taming the nuclear. From T. rex to Scorpio, propaganda to posthumanism, it’s all about Tim, really. Thank you, thank you, thanks, see ya, family.
Terrible Lizards, The Chapwoman Sisters ~ a Dino and a Jake: Dinosaurs and museums became cultural capital, their bones rearranged into narratives of power, spectacle, and control. Our fascination with terrible lizards reveals more than just prehistoric awe, it exposes the intersections of art, politics, and myth-making in society. From fossilized monsters to postmodern critique, this episode unearths the ways in which history is constructed, commodified, and weaponized. Part 1.
Endless loops, compulsions, and the unbearable - this episode spirals through repetition as art, theory, and perverse insistence. From Malevich’s lingering ghost to Sarah Lucas and MSCHF, from the death drive to social reproduction, from lipstick to glory holes, everything returns, everything resists resolution. Tim & Melletios slip between the obscene and the profound, pooping back and forth forever.
Chapter list -
0:00:00 Tim tries to be professional
0:00:55 Melletios apologises (spoooortssss)
0:06:51 Poetry time with Melletios
0:08:48 Malevich on Film
0:11:01 Wait, didn’t we cancel Malevich?
0:15:12 Are bananas funny?
0:19:40 Story time with Melletios (prisons, cops and weddings)
0:35:54 Lets fucking start Mel! Repetition, repetition, repetition
0:40:09 Tim wears lipstick and a skirt
0:47:42 Signification, compulsion and variation of repetition
0:49:49 Repetition in art (Sarah Lucas, Tony Albert and MSCHF)
1:00:10 Death drive (kill me already)
1:05:28 Social reproduction and the death drive
1:17:13 Art and the death drive (Tehching Hsieh, Ghada Amer and old mate Veeeto)
1:43:39 Glory holes, Sex, or the Unbearable and You and Me and Everyone We Know.
1:45:16 Poop back and forth, forever.
1:54:44 Open books and holes in walls
1:58:18 Melletios and Tim sitting in a bench… P.o.o.p.i.n.g.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/MDzofQhiZUE?si=0I0KCJSpfbu7xkEo
A wild seal, an aquarium visit, and a postmodern critique of Hamilton—this episode plunges into the absurd, the obscene, and the unhinged. From aggressive counter-readings of musicals to the uncanny parallels between porn and theatre, Melletios and Tim unravel the tangled web of leisure, labour, and the spectacle of postmodern desire. With anarchists on holiday, obscene morsels, and accidental encounters shaping the discourse, expect a sprawling, irreverent exploration of contemporary art, politics, and the capitalist dilemma of culture.
This is a long episode, so below is a chapter list with timestamps—so you can easily return to where you left off.
Chapters:
Chapter 1: Melletios goes to an aquarium 0:00-8:12Chapter 2: Manly, Manly Racism 8:12-9:50Chapter 3: The Real Seal? 9:50-16:40Chapter 4: Let’s start (Melletios gets spiritual) 16:40-18:36Chapter 5: What does an Italian Anarchist do on holiday? 18:36-27:10Chapter 6: Melletios predicts the future 27:10-30:26Chapter 7: Tim goes to a musical 30:26-36:34Chapter 8: “I’m not interested in the plot”…proceeds to talk about plot 36:34-49:55Chapter 9: Aggressive counter reading of Hamilton 49:55-1:02:26Chapter 10: Melletios doesn’t analyse Shek and the Napolitana Wars (yum) 1:02:26-1:08:50Chapter 11: Two men discuss what 19th-century French women want 1:08:50-1:14:48Chapter 12: Silent pornos… awkward 1:14:48-1:19:01Chapter 13: Why musicals and pornos are the same 1:19:01-1:27:11Chapter 14: The curse of the supporting cast 1:27:11-1:38:34Chapter 15: The song and dance of precariat labour 1:38:34-1:44:56Chapter 16: Bonanno, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no 1:44:56-1:50:50Chapter 17: Tim tries to invert Bonanno… onnanoB? 1:50:50-1:54:30Chapter 18: The problem of leisure 1:54:30-2:03:04Chapter 19: You have to kill the kid. Obscene/Off-scene 2:03:04-2:07:45Chapter 20: Melletios feeds Tim a morsel. Obsessing about the obscene 2:07:45-2:08:53Chapter 21: Making leisure time opaque even to ourselves 2:08:53-2:14:47Chapter 22: Melletios is a DB clown 2:14:47-2:17:44
Clowns and Dildos collide in a provocative exploration of the autonomy of art. The dildo, historically maligned and fetishised, emerges as a tool of resistance—a postmodern weapon wielded against patriarchal control and violence. Detached from the oppressive gaze, it embodies fluidity, rebellion, and empowerment, challenging the constructs of male dominance.
In this Christmas AF special, we delve into the radical art practices of the Beijing East Village, where performance, endurance, and the body became sites of protest and reinvention—tying together the absurdity of the clown, the history of the dildo, and the autonomy of art.
Tim Gregory formally known as The Doctor Tim Ge and Melletios Kyriakidis explore the nuanced connections between personal experiences, art, and memory. They examine how moments of crisis—whether it be confrontations with authority, or experiencing the fall into language (a Lacan quote )—shape artistic expression and our understanding of identity. The episode delves into the complex ways artists document and transform personal trauma, challenging traditional boundaries between storytelling, psychological experience, and creative output.
Sonic Subversion: The Undead Cargo of Cries -
Dr Tim Gregory and artist/shoplifter Melletios Kyriakidis explore how screaming has evolved into a language of resistance. They trace its journey from the harrowing cries of slavery to contemporary forms of sonic protest.
Improvisational music as a descendant of historical screams, debating notions of "art boredom" and "laborious discord". The synthesise of these ideas into a theory of screaming as resistance, drawing parallels between past and present forms of sonic rebellion.
Using the undead as a metaphor, Tim and Melletios position the oppressed as zombies whose screams carry both historical trauma and the power of ongoing resistance, challenging the conventional understanding of language, music, and dissent in patriarchal systems.
Anarchist
In this unconventional discourse podcast series, artists and academics Tim Gregory and Melletios Kyriakidis explore the intersection of art and the fantastical. "The Didactic Menu: A Zombie Guide to Cannibalism" merges critical theory with speculative inquiry, examining the challenge of teaching the undead through the lens of nutrition. Drawing inspiration from the film 'The Menu' 2022, this episode pushes the boundaries of both academic thought and creative expression, offering a unique take on the macabre and the didactic.
Episode 3: The Culinary Arts of Revolution
In this inaugural release of 'After Hours' (because good things start at three just like the iPhone3), hosts Tim and Tios serve up a feast for the mind. The episode begins with a savoury exploration of Greek cuisine, sourdough and culture before pivoting to a hearty discussion on the current state of the world.
As the conversation simmers, our hosts stir in the mystical elements of art, seasoning the dialogue with critiques of the cultural machine. Descending into the depths of the art world's basement, Tim and Tios fumble with two keys, attempting to unlock the hidden mechanisms that drive creative industries.
Join us for this thought-provoking blend of flavours, where cooking meats criticism, and magic infuses the mundane. It's a culinary journey through art, society, and the structures that bind them—all served with a side of revolution.
