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The Bad Vibes Club

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau

A podcast about art, politics and feelings from The Bad Vibes Club, including the ‘Ten Texts on…’ series. Hosted by Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau, Andrea Francke and Beth Bramich, with reading groups, interviews, audio essays, lectures and more.

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September 11 · length unknown
Ten Texts on Painting Episode 10: Painting Pedagogy
It’s the final episode of the series! Matt and Andrea discuss painting pedagogy from the UK, to the US, to… Bob Ross?
July 20 · length unknown
Ten Texts on Painting Episode 9: Peruvian Indigenous Contemporary Painting
In this episode, Matt and Andrea read Pedro Favaron y Chonon Bensho’s paper ‘Metsa Kené’ from 2020 (translated to English by AI) and Giuliana Borea’s ‘Personal cartographies of a Huitoto mythology’ from 2010.
April 23 · length unknown
Ten Texts on Painting Episode 8: The End of Painting
In this episode, recorded live at City and Guilds Art School in London, Matt and Andrea read Douglas Crimp's essay, 'The End of Painting' from 1981 alongside a number of texts and a video by Helen Molesworth on the painter Noah Davis from 2020.
March 24 · length unknown
Ten Texts on Painting 7: The Problem of Genius
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 have achieved both critical and commercial success and are considered by many to be geniuses.
February 2 · 50 min
Ten Texts on Painting 6: Theory of the Dot
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 connects a diverse group of painters such as Georges Seurat, Philip Guston, Yayoi Kusama and Emily Kam Kngwarray.
Nov 28, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min
Ten Texts on Painting 5: Lee Lozano
Welcome to the fourth episode of Ten Texts on Painting. This time, Matt and Andrea discuss the work of Lee Lozano.
Oct 16, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min
Ten Texts on Painting 4: Lubaina Himid
Welcome to the fourth episode of Ten Texts on Painting. This time, Matt and Andrea discuss the work of Lubaina Himid.
Sep 15, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
Ten Texts on Painting 3: Philip Guston
Welcome to the third episode of Ten Texts on Painting. This time, Andrea and Matt speak about the American painter,Philip Guston.
Aug 13, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
Ten Texts on Painting 2: Amy Sillman
In this episode Matt and Andrea read two texts by the painter and writer Amy Sillman: ‘On Color’ from 2016 and ‘Ab-Ex and Disco Balls’ from 2011.
Jul 31, 2025 · length unknown
Ten Texts on Painting 1: Expanded Painting
In this episode Matt and Andrea read three texts that think through an idea of expanded painting.
Jul 24, 2025 · 5 min
Coming soon: Ten Texts on Painting
Coming soon: Ten Texts on Painting. A new podcast series from The Bad Vibes Club featuring Andrea Francke and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau.
Jun 19, 2024 · length unknown
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.
Apr 26, 2024 · 1 hr 7 min
Ten Texts on Sculpture 9: The Non-Object
Matt and Andrea read two texts that help us get to grips with developments in Brazilian art and sculpture in the mid-20th Century.
Mar 5, 2024 · length unknown
Ten Texts on Sculpture 8: Sculptural Pedagogy
Matt and Andrea talk about how sculpture gets taught, and how developments in sculptural teaching changed art education more broadly.
Feb 9, 2024 · 1 hr
Ten Texts on Sculpture 7: Park McArthur
Matt and Andrea look at the work of US artist Park McArthur
Jan 12, 2024 · 1 hr 11 min
Ten Texts on Sculpture 6: Entropy
In this episode we talk about entropy in relation to sculpture. through a text by Robert Smithson, and writing about Beverly Buchanan
Dec 15, 2023 · 1 hr 1 min
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.
Dec 1, 2023 · 1 hr 4 min
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.
Nov 10, 2023 · 1 hr
Ten Texts on Sculpture 3: Phyllida Barlow
Matt and Andrea talk about the work and writing of the British sculptor Phyllida Barlow
Nov 3, 2023 · 1 hr 10 min
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 images.

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