The Bad Vibes Club
Episodes
Ten Texts on Painting 7: The Problem of Genius
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Matt and Andrea present a live podcast from TACO! in Thamesmead, London. We look at the work of Anselm Kiefer and Gerhardt Richter, two artists who ha...
Ten Texts on Painting 6: Theory of the Dot
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Matt and Andrea present a live podcast from NCAD in Dublin, at the invitation of Fire Station Artists' Studios. We spoke about the dot: a mark that co...
Ten Texts on Painting 5: Lee Lozano
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the fourth episode of Ten Texts on Painting. This time, Matt and Andrea discuss the work of Lee Lozano. We read a chapter of Jo Applin’s ...
Ten Texts on Painting 4: Lubaina Himid
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the fourth episode of Ten Texts on Painting. This time, Matt and Andrea discuss the work of Lubaina Himid. We read a 2019 conversation betw...
Ten Texts on Painting 3: Philip Guston
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the third episode of Ten Texts on Painting. This time, Andrea and Matt watch A Life Lived, a documentary about Philip Guston as he installe...
Ten Texts on Painting 2: Amy Sillman
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 2 of Ten Texts on Painting! In this episode Matt and Andrea read two texts by the painter and writer Amy Sillman: ‘On Color’ fr...
Ten Texts on Painting 1: Expanded Painting
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 1 of Ten Texts on Painting! This is the first of a series of reading group podcasts on painting. In this episode Matt and Andrea re...
Coming soon: Ten Texts on Painting
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coming soon: Ten Texts on Painting. A new podcast series from The Bad Vibes Club featuring Andrea Francke and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau. That’s ...
Ten Texts on Sculpture 10: Maintenance
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ‘...
Ten Texts on Sculpture 9: The Non-Object
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 developmen...
Ten Texts on Sculpture 8: Sculptural Pedagogy
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ten Texts on Sculpture 7: Park McArthur
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 wor...
Ten Texts on Sculpture 6: Entropy
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. On...
Ten Texts on Sculpture 5: Sculpture and Ritual
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ten Texts on Sculpture 4: Sculpture in the Expanded Field
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Fi...
Ten Texts on Sculpture 3: Phyllida Barlow
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Britai...
Ten Texts on Sculpture 2: Robert Gober and the Part Object
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Ten Texts on Sculpture 1: Duchamp and the Handmade
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Emma Bennett
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt speaks to artist and academic Emma Bennett about theatre, talking to the audience and ASMR.https://people.ucd.ie/emma.bennett
Cian Donnelly
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt talks to the performance artist Cian Donnelly about character, voice and ‘Belfast Music’.
On Ed Atkins (with Ross Jardine)
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Radio broadcast for rummur radio, Bergen, 2021. Join Radio Anti as they play white noise tracks and talk about the commercial, affective, and attentiv...
Sophie Lewis
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt talks to Sophie Lewis about translating two books by the French writer Noémi Lefebvre. They cover the practical aspects of translating, literary...
Dina Kelberman
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Can...
ON ADAM CURTIS PART SIX: WITH ANDREA FRANCKE AND ROSS JARDINE
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
On Adam Curtis Part Five: With Andrea Francke and Oscar Francke
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt, Andrea and Oscar discuss episode Five of Adam Curtis’ new series ‘Can’t Get You Out of my Head’. References:John Akomfrah in conversatio...
On Adam Curtis Part Four: With Andrea, Oscar and Ross
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
On Adam Curtis Part Three: With Andrea Francke, Oscar Francke and Ross Jardine
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
On Adam Curtis Part Two: With Andrea and Oscar Francke
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 arc...
On Adam Curtis Part One: with Andrea Francke, Oscar Francke and Ross Jardin
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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’. ...
Ralph Pritchard
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt speaks to Ralph Pritchard, artist filmmaker, about his ‘Films from the Quar’ series, including his latest films Approval, Flinching and Crush...
Hamish MacPherson and Sophie Mallett
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt, Hamish and Sophie have a catch up about lockdown, money, art and fatbergs.
Intimacy by Hamish MacPherson
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Lars Iyer
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
M.J. Harding
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt speaks to the music producer M.J Harding about bangers, intensity, addiction, shame and the voice between speaking and singing.
Joey Holder
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt speaks to the artist Joey Holder about conspiracies, getting caught in the crossfire of artworld controversy, and the time a clownfish squared up...
Richard Whitby
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt speaks to the artist Richard Whitby about conspiracies, Virginia Woolf and the post-cinematic, and his newest film ‘The Lost Ones’.
Kate Liston
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt talks to the artist Kate Liston about affects, stances, performance and CrossFit.
Ben Jeans Houghton
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, ‘...
Anne Duffau
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt speaks to curator Anne Duffau about her peripatetic project A-Z, sci-fi and the power of parties.
Andrea Francke Part 3
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The third and last conversation with Andrea Francke. This time we talk about Eve Sedgewick’s writing on paranoia and reparative reading. We talk con...
Andrea Francke Part 2
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 subjectiv...
Andrea Francke Part 1
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
The Gleaning
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Biennal...
Chloe Cooper
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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-educati...
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A performance with sampled sound about the Grenfell Tower fire, resentment and cruelty. Originally given as a performance at ICA London and CCA Derry-...
Sarah Bayliss
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt speaks to Sarah about collaboration, dithering and her internet doppelgänger
John Walter
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt speaks to artist John Walter about jesters, Alien Sex Clubs and Shonkyness.
Jonathan Hoskins
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Beth Collar
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt talks to the artist Beth Collar about the dark ages, gruesome death, and trapped wind.
Doomsday is Just Not Coming by Hamish MacPherson
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A guided meditation on bitterness, mediocrity and inertness. A chance to journey through past aggravation you can’t forget, and future revenge that ...
Sophie Mallett
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt talks to the artist Erica Scourti about art, twitter bots and self care.
Minor Sixth
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An audio essay about philosophy, with sampled music. First given at the ICA as part of ‘Realisms and Object Orientations: Art, Politics and the Phil...
Radio Anti: Entropy Mixtape
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Radio Anti present a mixtape of entropic words and music.
Joe Fletcher Orr and Sam Venables
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt talks to Joe Fletcher Orr and Sam Venables – artists and curators from Merseyside, about art, class, family and work.
Unluck
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...