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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.

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau


    • Dec 22, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 58m AVG DURATION
    • 39 EPISODES


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    On Ed Atkins (with Ross Jardine)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2021 52:20


    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.

    Radio Anti: White Noise

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2021 55:00


    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

    Sophie Lewis

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2021 47:04


    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 buy both the books we spoke about, Blue Self Portrait and Poetics of Work, from Les fugitives in the UK - https://www.lesfugitives.com/authors#/noemi-lefebvre/And through their website you can read some of Sophie's writing on translation as well - https://www.lesfugitives.com/authors#/sophie-lewis/

    Dina Kelberman

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2021 45:48


    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 the film, including the soundtrack made by musicians Rod Hamilton & Tiffany Seal. We also geek out about ‘How It's Made' more generally, and talk about its relationship to the capitalist production processes it purports to explain.Dina's website with a trailer for the film - http://dinakelberman.com/#thegoalistoliveManufactured Landscapes by Jennifer Baichwal -https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/films/manufactured-landscapesRod Hamilton & Tiffany Seal - https://soundcloud.com/rod_and_tiffanyTerry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy3W-3HPMWgWorkers Leaving the Factory (1995) - Harun Farocki - https://vimeo.com/59338090Images of the World and the Inscription of War, Harun Farocki - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjOl8TY8GkUWorkers Leaving the Googleplex by Andrew Norman Wilson - http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/WorkersGoogleplex.html

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2021 39:51


    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 ourselves.ReferencesAtlantic story about the data historian Peter Turchin - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/Time of the Gods a film by Lutz Dammbeck - https://www.kanopy.com/product/time-gods

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2021 42:39


    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 - https://watch.eventive.org/monographs/play/6021b3a8555932006e2111b0Riar Rizaldi Ghosts Like Us - http://rizaldiriar.com/ghostus.htmlBlack Power: a British Story of Resistance - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tj50#credits

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2021 411:11


    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 reference today - Schneider TM & Kptmichigan, The Light 3000 (Smiths cover) - https://youtu.be/vodnI38cNI0

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2021 51:10


    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 fleeing Woolsey Fire in Malibu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR0RQ8Gx6I0Watching The Pain of Others - https://vimeo.com/298425068Desktop Documentaries Tutorial with Kevin B. Lee - https://vimeo.com/500495238

    On Adam Curtis Part Two: With Andrea and Oscar Francke

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2021 38:56


    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 into.Links to the stuff we mention in this episode are below.Muub Tube with Ralph Pritchard and Owen - https://muubtube.podbean.com/Community Development as Micropolitics by Akwugo Emejulu (publisher's site) - https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/community-development-as-micropoliticsErrol Morris and Adam Curtis conversation (full text) - https://www.errolmorris.com/content/interview/believer0406.html

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2021 47:03


    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 is journalism, and the affective or emotional tone of Curtis's films. Below is a list of links to things mentioned in the episodeTribune Article about Adam Curtis - https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/02/in-defence-of-adam-curtisNew Yorker interview with Curtis - https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/adam-curtis-explains-it-allNXIVM documentary ‘The Vow' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vow_(TV_series)The Civil Contract of Photography by Ariella Azoulay - https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781890951894/the-civil-contract-of-photographyLutz Dammbeck - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198892/

    Ralph Pritchard

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2021 60:12


    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 watch Approval, Flinching and Crushing at this link - https://ralphpritchard.co.uk/Quarantine-films-S2-only - and see more of Ralph's work at his website - https://ralphpritchard.co.uk/

    Hamish MacPherson and Sophie Mallett

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 52:37


    Matt, Hamish and Sophie have a catch up about lockdown, money, art and fatbergs.

    Intimacy by Hamish MacPherson

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 27:20


    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 to record themselves reading these texts out. Then Matt turned them into this podcast. It contains some sexual references.Words: anonymous. Voices: Adam Wilson Holmes, AF, Angela Andrew, Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot, Beth Bramich, Carolin Meyer, Conor James, Elizabeth Rochester, Emilia Robinson, Francisco Zhan, Genevieve Costello, Gillie Kleiman, Gregory Hari, GS, Hannah Bellil, HMTIDT4U, Joshua Jayraj, Maria Sideri, May, Michael Whitby, Molly Chapman, Molly Martian, Nina Sever, Paul Hughes, Peter Jacobs, Ralph Pritchard, Sean Alayo, Tamara Tomic-Vajagic.Music/editing: Matthew de Kersaint GiraudeauYou can buy a book of the texts with original photographs from stilllifemag.org with profits going to Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement and Covid-19 Prisoner Emergency Fund.

    Lars Iyer

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 57:54


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 57:54


    Matt speaks to the music producer M.J Harding about bangers, intensity, addiction, shame and the voice between speaking and singing.

    Joey Holder

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 54:32


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 50:33


    Matt speaks to the artist Richard Whitby about conspiracies, Virginia Woolf and the post-cinematic, and his newest film ‘The Lost Ones'.

    Kate Liston

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 46:56


    Matt talks to the artist Kate Liston about affects, stances, performance and CrossFit.

    Ben Jeans Houghton

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 58:26


    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 international collaboration made possible by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and supported by Arts Council England and Arts Council Korea.You can watch Ben's film ‘2ndlife' at the below link.https://vimeo.com/253318990Password: please_take_a_stone

    Anne Duffau

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 40:09


    Matt speaks to curator Anne Duffau about her peripatetic project A-Z, sci-fi and the power of parties.

    Andrea Francke Part 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 46:21


    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.

    Andrea Francke Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 38:20


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 40:48


    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 talked about care, AI, robots and subjecthood. (You don't need to have read the stories to enjoy this I promise.)

    The Gleaning

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 29:59


    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 stories and short audio essays highlighting different kinds of gleaning. They explore gleaning as a historical right to subsist on common land, as a creative practice of selection, as mimicry and stealing, and examine examples of gleaning by machines and animals.

    Chloe Cooper

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 68:02


    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 positivity, activism and consent.

    Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 55:14


    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.

    Fire by Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021


    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 and words from Jean Franco's book Cruel Modernity, Achille Mbembe's essay Necropolitics and Marina Warner's essay Back from the Underworld: The Liveliness of the Dead.

    Sarah Bayliss

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021


    Matt speaks to Sarah about collaboration, dithering and her internet doppelgänger

    John Walter

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 56:01


    Matt speaks to artist John Walter about jesters, Alien Sex Clubs and Shonkyness.

    Jonathan Hoskins

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 33:47


    Beth Bramich speaks to artist Jonathan Hoskins about gentrification, politics and his recently published book ‘OWN DE BEAUVOIR!'

    Seven Oh Nine is a Lovely Time

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 21:20


    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.

    Beth Collar

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 69:55


    Matt talks to the artist Beth Collar about the dark ages, gruesome death, and trapped wind.

    Doomsday is Just Not Coming by Hamish MacPherson

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 19:23


    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.

    Sophie Mallett

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 60:35


    The Bad Vibes Club welcomes new co-host Beth Bramich as she speaks to the artist Sophie Mallett about radio, collaboration and nationalism.

    Erica Scourti

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 82:20


    Matt talks to the artist Erica Scourti about art, twitter bots and self care.

    Minor Sixth

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 12:26


    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.

    Radio Anti: Entropy Mixtape

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 26:24


    Radio Anti present a mixtape of entropic words and music.

    Joe Fletcher Orr and Sam Venables

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 121:31


    Matt talks to Joe Fletcher Orr and Sam Venables – artists and curators from Merseyside, about art, class, family and work.

    Unluck

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 46:14


    Unluck is a podcast about chance, probability and luck. Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau speaks to people who have been struck by lightning and been in plane crashes, as well as hearing more everyday tales of chance events to explore the contemporary meanings of luck and chance.

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