The Bad Vibes Club

By Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau

What's The Bad Vibes Club about?

A podcast about art, politics and feelings from The Bad Vibes Club. Hosted by Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Beth Bramich, with interviews, audio essays, lectures and more.

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The Bad Vibes Club episodes:

06.19.2024
Ten Texts on Sculpture 10: Maintenance
The tenth of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode Matt and Andrea read three texts about maintenance and art. We look at ‘What It's Like to Live With Art That Doesn't Love You Back’, a...
04.26.2024
Ten Texts on Sculpture 9: The Non-Object
The ninth of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode Matt and Andrea read two texts that help us get to grips with developments in Brazilian art and sculpture in the mid-20th Century. First we look...
03.05.2024
Ten Texts on Sculpture 8: Sculptural Pedagogy
The eighth of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode Matt and Andrea read a few texts about sculpture and pedagogy. We look at Elena Crippa's essay about how Anthony Caro brought the group crit over...
02.09.2024
Ten Texts on Sculpture 7: Park McArthur
The seventh of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode Matt and Andrea read a selection of texts to get to grips with the work of Park McArthur. We read a 2015 essay from Afterall by...
01.12.2024
Ten Texts on Sculpture 6: Entropy
The sixth of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode we talk about entropy in relation to sculpture. We look at two texts. One is Robert Smithson’s 1966 essay, ‘Entropy and the New Monuments’, and the...
12.15.2023
Ten Texts on Sculpture 5: Sculpture and Ritual
The fifth of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture with Andrea Francke. In this episode we talk about the artist Barbara McCullough’s film, ‘Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes’ from 1981. The film takes the form of a...
12.01.2023
Ten Texts on Sculpture 4: Sculpture in the Expanded Field
The third of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode we talk about Rosalind Krauss’s essay, ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’ from 1979. In the essay, Krauss lays out what has become a very influential idea...
11.10.2023
Ten Texts on Sculpture 3: Phyllida Barlow
The third of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode we talk about Phyllida Barlow’s proposal from 2012 for her Tate Britain Commission in 2014. We also talk about Barlow’s ‘The Hatred of the Object’ from...
11.03.2023
Ten Texts on Sculpture 2: Robert Gober and the Part Object
The second of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode Matt and Andrea talk about Hal Foster’s ‘An Art of Missing Parts’ from 2000 where he writes about Robert Gober’s sculptures as dioramas and primal...
10.20.2023
Ten Texts on Sculpture 1: Duchamp and the Handmade
Matt and Andrea begin a new series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In the first episode we talk about Helen Molesworth’s ‘Duchamp by Hand, Even’ from 2005 where she upends the received narrative of how Duchamp’s readymades from the...
07.18.2023
Emma Bennett
Matt speaks to artist and academic Emma Bennett about theatre, talking to the audience and ASMR.https://people.ucd.ie/emma.bennett
07.13.2023
Cian Donnelly
Matt talks to the performance artist Cian Donnelly about character, voice and ‘Belfast Music’.
12.22.2021
On Ed Atkins (with Ross Jardine)
Me and Ross Jardine talk about Ed Atkins' poem 'Old Food' in its book form, and as a performance by the British actor Toby Jones.
09.24.2021
Radio Anti: White Noise
Radio broadcast for rummur radio, Bergen, 2021. Join Radio Anti as they play white noise tracks and talk about the commercial, affective, and attentive qualities of noise
07.20.2021
Sophie Lewis
Matt talks to Sophie Lewis about translating two books by the French writer Noémi Lefebvre. They cover the practical aspects of translating, literary tone, and what happens when you try and use an English colloquialism for an American publisher.You can...
05.20.2021
Dina Kelberman
Matt speaks to the artist Dina Kelberman about her 2019 film ‘The Goal is to Live’. The feature length film is made entirely of clips from the Canadian TV series ‘How It’s Made’, and we discuss the process of making...
04.19.2021
ON ADAM CURTIS PART SIX: WITH ANDREA FRANCKE AND ROSS JARDINE
Matt, Andrea and Ross discuss the final episode of Adam Curtis’ TV series ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’.We’re in a park! Together! In the sun! We sum up - talking about what we’ve learned about Adam Curtis, and...
04.07.2021
On Adam Curtis Part Five: With Andrea Francke and Oscar Francke
Matt, Andrea and Oscar discuss episode Five of Adam Curtis’ new series ‘Can’t Get You Out of my Head’. References:John Akomfrah in conversation - https://www.lissongallery.com/studio/john-akomfrah-tina-campt-saidiya-hartmanC Thi Ngueyn - The Seductions of Clarity - https://philpapers.org/rec/NGUTSO-2Maryam Tafakory's video essay Irani Bag -...
03.30.2021
On Adam Curtis Part Four: With Andrea, Oscar and Ross
Matt, Andrea, Oscar and Ross discuss episode four of Adam Curtis’ new series ‘Can’t Get You Out of my Head’. We talk about scripts, the active vs passive voice, and the problem with making individuals the bearers of history.Just one...
03.19.2021
On Adam Curtis Part Three: With Andrea Francke, Oscar Francke and Ross Jardine
The third episode! Ross is back, and he hasn’t watched it, so me, Andrea and Oscar try and summarise it for him. Also includes a good story by Ross about catching a mouse.Woman captures dramatic video driving through flames while...
03.10.2021
On Adam Curtis Part Two: With Andrea and Oscar Francke
Matt, Andrea and Oscar discuss episode two of Adam Curtis’ new series ‘I Can’t Get You Out of my Head’.We talk about the limits of the BBC archive, and the history of the Black Panthers that Curtis never quite gets...
03.03.2021
On Adam Curtis Part One: with Andrea Francke, Oscar Francke and Ross Jardin
Matt is joined by Ross, Andrea and her son Oscar to discuss the first episode of Adam Curtis’s new TV series ‘Can’t Get You Out of my Head’. We talk about post truth, Curtis’s claim that what he does...
02.24.2021
Ralph Pritchard
Matt speaks to Ralph Pritchard, artist filmmaker, about his ‘Films from the Quar’ series, including his latest films Approval, Flinching and Crushing. We talk about his work, OCD and uncertainty. And I tell Ralph about a dream I had.You can...
02.16.2021
Hamish MacPherson and Sophie Mallett
Matt, Hamish and Sophie have a catch up about lockdown, money, art and fatbergs.
02.16.2021
Intimacy by Hamish MacPherson
In March and April 2020 Hamish MacPherson used social media to ask, “Are you having sexual or sensual intimacy with people who are distant from you during the COVID-19 lockdowns?” People replied anonymously and Hamish asked friends and acquaintances...
02.16.2021
Lars Iyer
Matt speaks to the writer Lars Iyer about his latest book, Nietzsche and the Burbs. They also talk about method, music and what time Lars wakes up in the morning.
02.16.2021
M.J. Harding
Matt speaks to the music producer M.J Harding about bangers, intensity, addiction, shame and the voice between speaking and singing.
02.16.2021
Joey Holder
Matt speaks to the artist Joey Holder about conspiracies, getting caught in the crossfire of artworld controversy, and the time a clownfish squared up to her.
02.16.2021
Richard Whitby
Matt speaks to the artist Richard Whitby about conspiracies, Virginia Woolf and the post-cinematic, and his newest film ‘The Lost Ones’.
02.16.2021
Kate Liston
Matt talks to the artist Kate Liston about affects, stances, performance and CrossFit.
02.16.2021
Ben Jeans Houghton
Matt talks to artist Ben Jeans Houghton about two of his film works. ‘2ndlife’ (2018), made on a residency in Japan, and a new work in progress, ‘Screaming Bird Singing Dawn Rainbow Mountain’, made at Hongti Arts Centre, Busan, an...
02.16.2021
Anne Duffau
Matt speaks to curator Anne Duffau about her peripatetic project A-Z, sci-fi and the power of parties.
02.16.2021
Andrea Francke Part 3
The third and last conversation with Andrea Francke. This time we talk about Eve Sedgewick’s writing on paranoia and reparative reading. We talk conspiracy, strong theory, universalism and black feminism.
02.16.2021
Andrea Francke Part 2
The second conversation with Andrea Francke. This time we talk about The Idiot, a novel by Elif Bautman, and from that, we talk about female subjectivity in fiction, mumblecore, and privilege.
02.16.2021
Andrea Francke Part 1
The first of three podcasts with Andrea Francke where we read different texts and use them to talk about Andrea’s research and interests. For this conversation we both read some Chinese sci-fi (the book is called Invisible Planets) and then...
02.16.2021
The Gleaning
The Gleaning is the second in a series of events and artistic responses to James Richard’s Wales in Venice representation at the 2017 Venice Biennale.For ‘The Gleaning’, the artists Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Sophie Mallett present a series of...
02.16.2021
Chloe Cooper
Beth Bramich talks to the artist Chloe Cooper about her work with Jenny Moore and Phoebe Davies as Bedfellows, a research project about sex re-education, performing an Internal Scratch at Battersea Arts Centre, sex education at the British Museum, sex...
02.16.2021
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen
Matt talks to Revital and Tuur about their film ‘Trapped in the Dream of the Other’, filmed in a coltan mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
02.16.2021
Fire by Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau
A performance with sampled sound about the Grenfell Tower fire, resentment and cruelty. Originally given as a performance at ICA London and CCA Derry-Londonderry as part of The Bad Vibes Club’s ‘Feeling Bad’ events in summer 2017. I use ideas...
02.16.2021
Sarah Bayliss
Matt speaks to Sarah about collaboration, dithering and her internet doppelgänger
02.16.2021
John Walter
Matt speaks to artist John Walter about jesters, Alien Sex Clubs and Shonkyness.
02.16.2021
Jonathan Hoskins
Beth Bramich speaks to artist Jonathan Hoskins about gentrification, politics and his recently published book ‘OWN DE BEAUVOIR!’
02.16.2021
Seven Oh Nine is a Lovely Time
The Bad Vibes Cloud hosts an episode of Seven Oh Nine, a podcast of stories, poems and improvisations made collaboratively by Robert Bidder and Siân Robinson Davies.
02.16.2021
Beth Collar
Matt talks to the artist Beth Collar about the dark ages, gruesome death, and trapped wind.
02.16.2021
Doomsday is Just Not Coming by Hamish MacPherson
A guided meditation on bitterness, mediocrity and inertness. A chance to journey through past aggravation you can’t forget, and future revenge that never seems to arrive.
02.16.2021
Sophie Mallett
The Bad Vibes Club welcomes new co-host Beth Bramich as she speaks to the artist Sophie Mallett about radio, collaboration and nationalism.
02.16.2021
Erica Scourti
Matt talks to the artist Erica Scourti about art, twitter bots and self care.
02.16.2021
Minor Sixth
An audio essay about philosophy, with sampled music. First given at the ICA as part of ‘Realisms and Object Orientations: Art, Politics and the Philosophy of Tristan Garcia’, 2014.
02.16.2021
Radio Anti: Entropy Mixtape
Radio Anti present a mixtape of entropic words and music.
02.16.2021
Joe Fletcher Orr and Sam Venables
Matt talks to Joe Fletcher Orr and Sam Venables – artists and curators from Merseyside, about art, class, family and work.

What's The Bad Vibes Club about?

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The Bad Vibes Club episodes:

Ten Texts on Sculpture 10: Maintenance

Ten Texts on Sculpture 9: The Non-Object

Ten Texts on Sculpture 8: Sculptural Pedagogy

Ten Texts on Sculpture 7: Park McArthur

Ten Texts on Sculpture 6: Entropy

Ten Texts on Sculpture 5: Sculpture and Ritual

Ten Texts on Sculpture 4: Sculpture in the Expanded Field

Ten Texts on Sculpture 3: Phyllida Barlow

Ten Texts on Sculpture 2: Robert Gober and the Part Object

Ten Texts on Sculpture 1: Duchamp and the Handmade

Emma Bennett

Cian Donnelly

On Ed Atkins (with Ross Jardine)

Radio Anti: White Noise

Sophie Lewis

Dina Kelberman

ON ADAM CURTIS PART SIX: WITH ANDREA FRANCKE AND ROSS JARDINE

On Adam Curtis Part Five: With Andrea Francke and Oscar Francke

On Adam Curtis Part Four: With Andrea, Oscar and Ross

On Adam Curtis Part Three: With Andrea Francke, Oscar Francke and Ross Jardine

On Adam Curtis Part Two: With Andrea and Oscar Francke

On Adam Curtis Part One: with Andrea Francke, Oscar Francke and Ross Jardin

Ralph Pritchard

Hamish MacPherson and Sophie Mallett

Intimacy by Hamish MacPherson

Lars Iyer

M.J. Harding

Joey Holder

Richard Whitby

Kate Liston

Ben Jeans Houghton

Anne Duffau

Andrea Francke Part 3

Andrea Francke Part 2

Andrea Francke Part 1

The Gleaning

Chloe Cooper

Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen

Fire by Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau

Sarah Bayliss

John Walter

Jonathan Hoskins

Seven Oh Nine is a Lovely Time

Beth Collar

Doomsday is Just Not Coming by Hamish MacPherson

Sophie Mallett

Erica Scourti

Minor Sixth

Radio Anti: Entropy Mixtape

Joe Fletcher Orr and Sam Venables

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