While at Flat Time House, The Bad Vibes Club (Beth Bramich and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau) will be hosting a programme of events, including talks, screenings and performances, as well as launching a new publication in June 2018.
Join The Bad Vibes Club (Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau & Beth Bramich) at Bloc Projects, Sheffield, for a reading group and discussion about how paranoia affects the way we think, and the possibilities for what Eve Sedgwick has called ‘reparative reading‘. Reparative reading is a powerful corrective to paranoia and cynicism, and a much needed way of engaging with people and ideas that are different from our own.
‘Knotted Mass II’ is an artist’s book developed from Holly Slingsby’s 2016 performance of the same name at The Bower’s pop-up project, Finishing Touch, London. This work evolved from her research into the language of hair in the narratives of pop-cultural and mythical figures. It took place by candlelight, drawing from a rich selection of images, where hair is both subject and object, exploring its significance in popular culture, history, mythology and religion. ‘Knotted Mass II’ includes texts and images from the performance, new drawings, photographic documentation, and a specially commissioned text by Beth Bramich.
Flat Time House is hosting The Bad Vibes Club in 2017–18. Bad Vibes Club is a forum for research into negative states. Whilst at Flat Time House, Beth Bramich and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau will host 6 months of reading groups, a number of live events, and the launch of a new publication in June 2018. Please come along! All welcome, if you haven’t managed to make the reading groups before, now is a great time to start.
I took a bottle of water and a bleakening worldview. Moving forward, pretending not to be moving away from, following the A-road to the island, on the edge of the asphalt all the way along the causeway. I was attempting to come up for air in that not-quite-defeated repeating way that I do. The little bastard of optimism and the desire to be empty kept me coming round and round to this lurching motion. The island is tied, tethered at its northmost to the mainland; it rises up bluntly and then slumps forward a few miles south into the sea. The cliffside route offers breathtaking views.
Bad Vibes Club Podcast co-host Beth Bramich spoke to the artist Jonathan Hoskins about gentrification, politics and his recently published book ‘OWN DE BEAUVOIR!’. Listen to the episode here.
The Bad Vibes Club will be hosting an event by Residence Kitchen (Jonathan Hoskins and Susannah Worth) at Flat Time House in 2018.
New Bad Vibes Club Podcast co-host Beth Bramich spoke to the artist Sophie Mallett about radio, collaboration and nationalism. Listen to the episode here.
The Bad Vibes Club presented a new performance by Sophie Mallett (feat. Jenny Moore on drums) at Supernormal Festival and a workshop and performance as part of In formation at the ICA in August 2017.
