In this conversation, painter Jake Fern sits down with Matthew Glamorre, an artist, videographer, agent provocateur and outspoken critic of the LGBTQ movement, for the second of three chats recorded while Jake paints his portrait. Matthew tells the story of a £40,000 Brighton Pride float commission in the late 90s that ended with him being escorted out by security, and explains why he felt something like fascism crept into the scene when corporate sponsors and uniformed institutions moved in with it.
From there the discussion ranges widely: it includes the political edge of early rave culture, the brief spiritual opening of the acid house years, why he cheered on Napster, and his unsettling experiments with shared dreaming that left him with a growing darkness and a Dorian Gray moment in the mirror. He also reflects on why he thinks dark paths to power are so easily opened to ambitious people.
The conversation closes on bigger questions of faith and society such as the Christian revival that Matt observes to follow the “great noticing,” the church’s priesthood versus older pagan traditions, and whether people need to be governed or could build their own structures.
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