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 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