The the - Mona Hatoum and the Electric State
From DB10 - Unhinged, obscene, and disruptive - by Melletios Kyriakidis and Tim Gregory
July 4, 2025 · 58 min · Season 1 · Episode 13
About this episode
This episode explores the intersections of queer public sex, art, and the failures of heterosexuality through the lens of Mona Hatoum's work.
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. Db10 insta 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…
People in this episode
Hosts: Melletios Kyriakidis, Tim Gregory
Topics covered
- queer public sex
- art and violence
- failures of heterosexuality
- domestic space
- cultural erasure
- AI and art
Keywords
- queer
- art
- Mona Hatoum
- domesticity
- patriarchy
- violence
- AI
- cultural erasure
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: PornHub
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