The Bad Vibes Club
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.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 54
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
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’.
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John Akomfrah in conversation - https://www.lissongallery.com/studio/john-akomfrah-ti…
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 individual…
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 vide…
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 n…
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 doe…
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…
Hamish MacPherson and Sophie Mallett
Matt, Hamish and Sophie have a catch up about lockdown, money, art and fatbergs.
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 ano…
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.
M.J. Harding
Matt speaks to the music producer M.J Harding about bangers, intensity, addiction, shame and the voice between speaking and singing.
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.
Richard Whitby
Matt speaks to the artist Richard Whitby about conspiracies, Virginia Woolf and the post-cinematic, and his newest film ‘The Lost Ones’.
Kate Liston
Matt talks to the artist Kate Liston about affects, stances, performance and CrossFit.
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 a…
Anne Duffau
Matt speaks to curator Anne Duffau about her peripatetic project A-Z, sci-fi and the power of parties.
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 femi…
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.
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 b…
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 Kersai…
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 A…