Peculiar Perpendicular Perspective Performative Personality part II

About this episode

The episode explores themes of art, politics, and personal trauma through a surreal lens.

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. follow us on Instagram DB10

People in this episode

Hosts: Melletios Kyriakidis, Tim Gregory

Topics covered

• art school nostalgia
• politics of skill versus expression
• anti-fascism
• teenage trauma
• expression and failure
• seriousness as rebellion

Keywords

• art
• fascism
• nostalgia
• politics
• expression
• failure
• rebellion
• teenage trauma

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Morandi's fascism

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