DB10 - Unhinged, obscene, and disruptive -

Melletios Kyriakidis and Tim Gregory

DB10 - where the obscene and the absurd refuse to be contained. Tim Gregory and Melletios Kyriakidis dismantle dominant narratives, exposing the grotesque, the derailed, and the unspeakable in contemporary discourse. This is not an art podcast for passive consumption. It’s a dissection of the fetishised and the discarded, the hauntological wreckage of academia, and the anarchic play of a world in collapse. From auto theory to Marx, from magic to pornography, from counter-histories to fractured aesthetics -nothing is stable, and everything is unsettled. Instagram.com/db10_unhinged

  1. The the - Mona Hatoum and the Electric State

    07/04/2025

    The the - Mona Hatoum and the Electric State

    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 f*****s, 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 F*****g 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 f*****g your nationality

    58 min
  2. Getting Off at Redfern: Bleached Male Desire and the Fake Crisis of Masculinity

    05/21/2025

    Getting Off at Redfern: Bleached Male Desire and the Fake Crisis of Masculinity

    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. Insta Chapters: 0:00 - Fixing mics and Redfern slang 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

    50 min

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DB10 - where the obscene and the absurd refuse to be contained. Tim Gregory and Melletios Kyriakidis dismantle dominant narratives, exposing the grotesque, the derailed, and the unspeakable in contemporary discourse. This is not an art podcast for passive consumption. It’s a dissection of the fetishised and the discarded, the hauntological wreckage of academia, and the anarchic play of a world in collapse. From auto theory to Marx, from magic to pornography, from counter-histories to fractured aesthetics -nothing is stable, and everything is unsettled. Instagram.com/db10_unhinged