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
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
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
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
A performance with sampled sound about Grenfell Tower, 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
Matt speaks to Sarah about collaboration, dithering and her internet doppelgänger
John Walter
Matt speaks to artist John Walter about jesters, Alien Sex Clubs and Shonkyness.
Jonathan Hoskins
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
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
Matt talks to the artist Beth Collar about the dark ages, gruesome death, and trapped wind.
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.
Commissioned by The Bad Vibes Club and supported by Arts Council England.
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.
Erica Scourti
Matt talks to the artist Erica Scourti about art, twitter bots and self care.
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.
Radio Anti: Entropy Mixtape
Radio Anti present a mixtape of entropic words and music.
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.
Unluck
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.