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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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Ten Texts on Painting 7: The Problem of Genius

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2026/03/24

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. Who decides which artists get to be geniuses? What happens to the way their work is written about? Is there something about painting as an art form that lends itself to the idea of the painter as genius?We read a profile of Anselm Kiefer by the Norwegian author

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Ten Texts on Painting 6: Theory of the Dot

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2026/02/02

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. We read Linda Nochlin on Seurat, Margo Neale on Kngwarray and Jennifer DeVere Brody on Kusama. Thanks to everyone who came along to the event, to Mark, Niall and everyone at NCAD for hosting and to Sara Greavu for the invitation! Download

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Ten Texts on Painting 5: Lee Lozano

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2025/11/28

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 book on Lozano Lee Lozano: Not Working, Lozano’s published notebooks from 1967-70, when she was making her masterpiece, the Wave paintings, and finally Jo Baer’s letter to Artforum from 1967. We talk about the connection between Lozano’s paintings, her art/life ‘pieces’, and her place in the New York art scene of the late 1960s.Download PDFs of all the

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Ten Texts on Painting 4: Lubaina Himid

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2025/10/16

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 between Himid and the curators of Hollybush Gardens, an essay by feminist art historian Griselda Pollock (2017), and a text by curator Zoe Whitley (2019). Together, we grapple with the complexity of Himid’s work and career, shaped by her wide-ranging interests as a painter, and by her position as a key figure in the Black British art scene of the 1980s and

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01:03:05

Ten Texts on Painting 3: Philip Guston

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2025/09/15

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 installed a retrospective exhibition in San Franscisco in 1980, and read a lecture Guston delivered on one of his favourite painters, Piero Della Francesca, also around that time. It’s a total love in. Who doesn’t love Guston?Download the PDF of essay from dekersaint.com/badvibesclub, and see a link to the documentary on Kanopy (if you have access)Guston,

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01:07:16

Ten Texts on Painting 2: Amy Sillman

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2025/08/13

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’ from 2016 and ‘Ab-Ex and Disco Balls’ from 2011. We talk about paint, colour and different kinds of knowledge. We talk about Sillman’s approach to painting, writing and teaching, and how all those things might connect. We finish up talking about abstract expressionism and feminist performance. It’s a great episode! Amy Sillman is great! You’re great

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Ten Texts on Painting 1: Expanded Painting

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2025/07/31

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 read three texts that think through an idea of expanded painting. We look at the painter Katharina Grosse’s reflections on key paintings in her career in, ‘The Poise of the Head and die anderen folgen’ and Anne Ring Peterson’s, ‘Painting Spaces’, both from 2010. We also refer to Rosalind Krauss’s lecture/book, ‘A Voyage on the North Sea': Art in the Age

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Coming soon: Ten Texts on Painting

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2025/07/24

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 right! Ten Texts is back, and this time Andrea and Matt will be talking about painting. We’ll be launching the first episode in the next few weeks. But for now, why not browse back through the last series, Ten Texts on Sculpture, and re-listen to your favourite episode. Also, why not recommend the podcast to a friend? Or rate us on your chosen podcast

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Ten Texts on Sculpture 10: Maintenance

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2024/06/19

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 ‘What It's Like to Live With Art That Doesn't Love You Back’, a 2017 magazine article by M.H Miller, Ben Lerner’s 2016 piece for the New Yorker about the Whitney museum’s conservation team, ‘The Custodians’, and Helena Reckitt’s, article about feminist art and maintenance ‘Forgotten Relations: Feminist Artists and Relational Aesthetics’ from

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Ten Texts on Sculpture 9: The Non-Object

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2024/04/26

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 developments in Brazilian art and sculpture in the mid-20th Century. First we look at Ferreira Gullar’s foundational Neoconcretist text ‘Theory of the Non-Object’ from 1959, with the help of Michael Asbury who embeds it within his essay, ‘Neoconcretism And Minimalism: On Ferreira Gullar’s Theory Of The Non-Object’ from the book Cosmopolitan Modernisms from 2005

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Ten Texts on Sculpture 8: Sculptural Pedagogy

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2024/03/05

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 at Elena Crippa's essay about how Anthony Caro brought the group crit over from New York and used it to change the Central Saint Martin's sculpture course. We discuss the impact that had on British art schools from the 60s onwards. We also look at David Harding's writing on his time as the course leader for Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art

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Ten Texts on Sculpture 7: Park McArthur

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2024/02/09

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 work of Park McArthur. We read a 2015 essay from Afterall by Andrew Blackley called ‘Geometry, Material, Scale’, an interview with McArthur from Bomb magazine, one McArthur’s own texts about care, and, in order to make sense of McCarthur’s conceptual art inheritence, we read the 2010 preface to an edition of Lucy Lippards book, Six Years: The

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01:11:42

Ten Texts on Sculpture 6: Entropy

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2024/01/12

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. One is Robert Smithson’s 1966 essay, ‘Entropy and the New Monuments’, and the other is a 2015 publication on the work of Beverly Buchanan from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, edited by Park McArthur and Jennifer Burris Staton. We talk about entropy, ruins, major and minor approaches to work, and the relationship between wider culture and formal

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Ten Texts on Sculpture 5: Sculpture and Ritual

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2023/12/15

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. The film takes the form of a series of interviews with Black American artists about their relationship to ritual. We focus on the sections with the sculptors David Hammons, Senga Nengudi and Betye Saar. We also look at an essay by gallerist Linda Goode-Bryant and art historian Marcy S. Philips

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Ten Texts on Sculpture 4: Sculpture in the Expanded...

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2023/12/01

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. In the essay, Krauss lays out what has become a very influential idea of postmodern art through defining a very particular genealogy of Minimalist and post-minimalist artists working in the US in the 1960s and 70s. We also read a chapter from Tina Post’s 2023 book, Deadpan, in which Post thinks about Minimalism in relation to an aesthetic

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Ten Texts on Sculpture 3: Phyllida Barlow

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2023/11/10

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 Britain Commission in 2014. We also talk about Barlow’s ‘The Hatred of the Object’ from 1997 and ‘Hearsay, Rumours, Bed-sit Dreamers and Art Begins Today’ from 2004. It’s basically a big love in for Barlow as an artist who writes towards making rather than theorising. Andrea and Matt talk about vitrines, art made for Instagram, and theatricality (again).Below

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Ten Texts on Sculpture 2: Robert Gober and the Part...

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2023/11/03

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. The text is an explicitly Freudian, psychoanalytic reading of Gober’s work and Matt and Andrea have different views on how appropriate that is. Because of the theatrical nature of dioramas, Matt and Andrea also speak about Michael Fried’s famous (and famously derided)

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Ten Texts on Sculpture 1: Duchamp and the Handmade

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2023/10/20

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, Even’ from 2005 where she upends the received narrative of how Duchamp’s readymades from the 1910s led to the dematerialised conceptual practices of the 1960s and beyond. By focusing on the handmade qualities of Duchamp’s later work such as the three erotic objects from the 1950s, Étant donnés (1946-66) and the crafted replicas by which modern audiences

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Emma Bennett

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2023/07/18

Matt speaks to artist and academic Emma Bennett about theatre, talking to the audience and ASMR.https://people.ucd.ie/emma.bennett

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Cian Donnelly

The Bad Vibes Club ·

2023/07/13

Matt talks to the performance artist Cian Donnelly about character, voice and ‘Belfast Music’.

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