DB10 - Unhinged, obscene, and disruptive -

Melletios Kyriakidis and Tim Gregory
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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

  1. The Imperial Aesthetic vs. the Anti-Spectacle: Sport & Violence

    APR 11

    The Imperial Aesthetic vs. the Anti-Spectacle: Sport & Violence

    DJ Delicious Mellicious takes a call from his mum and explains to her what a podcast is. We discuss why clapping alone is weird, but it’s even weirder when people clap alone, together. Melletios just wants to be clapped to sleep. Tim just wants to make music with a pasta machine. Both just want to be an anti-fascist spectacle. We discuss the history of the spectacleas moving from being to having to appearing. Appearance is always a fantasy we can’t have. And the hottest fantasy around is Heated Rivalries, a show about ice hockey, homoerotica and gentle (fascist) love. We delve into the history of sport asthe way we learn nationalism, and now homonationalism. We unpack the “naturalisation” of violence and sex, ableism and ageism, competition and desire that sport feeds us. It is a fantasy that is cruelly presented to an audience whose lived experience is one of disappointment and anxiety. But the anti-spectacle is here to help. It offers a pathway out of this tragic fantasy. Come and be bored with us. Further reading/looking/listening: Jasbir K. Puar Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Melletios’ various artworks (clapping, unanthem) Kaylene Whiskey Artworks Ordinary Unhappiness on Heated Rivalries Parker Bright’s protest/art/performances Dagmar Herzog, The New Fascist Body Alberto Toscano, Late Fascism:Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

    1h 30m
  2. Vertical Time and the Bliss at Pleasure's End

    MAR 5

    Vertical Time and the Bliss at Pleasure's End

    In this episode we discuss (eventually) Roland Barthes’ 1973“The Pleasure of the Text”. We dive into the cut between pleasure and bliss, administration and abolition, comprehension and noise. We travel vertically through time, trying to escape the horizontality of property, debt and prisons. How can we find the vertical when we are forced to wait? How can we reclaim agency from the narrative fantasies we are told to desire? Can we find a nihilistic truth at fantasy’s ultimate end point (hint, a special guest returns that no one asked for). Oh and Melletios somehow makes Tim paint again. Elia Suleiman, The Time That Remains , 2009 (Full Movie) Faith Wilding, Waiting, 1972 Sabrina Carpenter, House Tour, 2025

    1h 15m
  3. Art is Dead, Long Live Art: eschatology and the death drive

    12/24/2025

    Art is Dead, Long Live Art: eschatology and the death drive

    In this episode we talk about making art in the end times. Whathappens when the end doesn’t come? Melletios runs around naked, Tim takes drugs to dull the pain, and Malevich is stuck painting squares, forever. We discuss eschatology and the death drive as opposing forces in art making that tries to deal with the death of art (and everything else). We throw in dead supervisors, Heaven’s Gate cult, Lars Von Tres’ Melancholia and a sad triangle. Can art reclaim a power at the end that isn’t sublimated to fascist aesthetics, or the cold post-conceptualism of “smoothing the pillow” of capitalism? Oh and zombiesreturn, because, well, they are zombies.

    2h 21m
  4. Peculiar Perpendicular Perspective Performative Personality part II

    10/13/2025

    Peculiar Perpendicular Perspective Performative Personality part II

    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

    55 min
  5. The Impossible Aesthetics of Giving a Shit.

    07/30/2025

    The Impossible Aesthetics of Giving a Shit.

    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. DB10 Instagram

    1h 6m
  6. 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
  7. “I Am Sitting in a Beat” : sonic experiments

    06/22/2025

    “I Am Sitting in a Beat” : sonic experiments

    DB10: 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. Instagram DB10 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.

    56 min
  8. From Jizz to Jazz: the Desire and Violence in Everyday Straight Men’s Rituals

    06/03/2025

    From Jizz to Jazz: the Desire and Violence in Everyday Straight Men’s Rituals

    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. Instagram

    55 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

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