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February 10, 2025

Exploding Appendix Event Program 2025 (Online and in Person (Brighton). February to June)

Exploding Appendix is back for our Spring season 2025 As always, all are welcome to our free sessions which take place every three weeks on a […]
February 3, 2025

The Uncanny in the Films and Paintings of David Lynch (Online and In Person. 4th March 2025)

David Lynch’s painting Bob Finds Himself in a World for Which He has No Understanding (2000) feels like it could be read as alongside his films, almost as […]
February 3, 2025

Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton and Hove #5: Whitehawk, Sound Art and the Class Divide with Simon James (Online and In Person. 18th February 2025)

“Whitehawk is one of the UK’s most deprived communities, but under the tarmac and Terrace houses lie the remains of one of the UK’s most important […]
February 3, 2025

Daniel & Clara in Conversation (In Person and Online. 11th February 2025)

. In 2018, Daniel & Clara’s films shifted from brightly coloured, alchemical, magical motion pictures to a focus on British landscapes and the figures that inhabit […]
October 3, 2024

Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton & Hove #4: Creativity on London Road

In this session, we will be joined by Lucy Jefferies (Quiet Down there), Susie Deadman (Sew Fabulous), Jenny Staff (artist at the Phoenix), Kasia Zermon (The […]
October 3, 2024

Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton and Hove #3 -Manifestos for Our City

. In this session, Bradley Tuck from Exploding Appendix will introduce the idea for a project to compile a selection of Manifestos for Brighton, Hove, and […]
September 6, 2024

Exploding Appendix Program 2024 (September to December) (Updated)

. Exploding Appendix is back for our Autumn season 2024. As always, all are welcome to our free sessions which take place every three weeks on […]
September 6, 2024

Dada Cabaret …And Christmas Party (In Person only. 3rd December 2024)

In time-honored tradition, Exploding Appendix invites you to their sixth night of art, anti-art, participatory creativity, and revelry! Inspired by the legendary Dadaist nightclub, Cabaret Voltaire—founded […]
September 6, 2024

Psychomagic and the Cinema of Alajandro Jodorowsky (In Person and Online. 26th November 2024)

This week we will be diving into the surreal and visually cathartic world of renowned filmmaker, poet, theatre director, graphic novelist, tarot reader and psychotherapist Alejandro […]
September 6, 2024

What is Class? A Workshop (In Person and Online. 5th November 2024) (LOCATION CHANGE!)

. In the first session of our “Critical Concepts” series, we will explore the meaning of class. Through a conversational approach, we will blend personal anecdotes […]
September 6, 2024

Georges Bataille: The “Excrement-Philosopher”. A Conversation with Benjamin Noys (In Person and Online. 15th October 2024)

. In 1929, after expelling Georges Bataille from the Surrealist movement, André Breton denounced him as an “excrement-philosopher.” As Benjamin Noys notes, “Bataille would have probably […]
September 6, 2024

Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th Century (In Person and Online. 24th September 2024)

. In this session, we will be joined by Esther Leslie and Sam Dolbear to discuss their new book, Dissonant Waves, which creatively explores the life […]
September 6, 2024

Work In Progress: A Sharing Session. (Online and In Person. 3rd September 2024)

. Are you working on a project, no matter how big or small, and you would like some feedback? Are you revisiting previous works or do you […]
June 8, 2024

Photographic Ephemera and Cultural Detritus: A conversation with Annebella Pollen (In Person and Online – 25th June 2024)

Over the last two decades, Annebella Pollen has built a body of publications based on photographic materials pushed to the margins. From photographic ephemera in end-of-life […]
May 12, 2024

Dancing on Violent Ground: A Conversation with Arabella Stanger (Online and In Person – 4th June 2024)

In her brave and provocative book “Dancing on Violent Ground”, Arabella Stanger challenges us to critically interrogate the apparent utopianism of dance. Whilst dance has often […]
May 10, 2024

Tzadik Records Listening Session (Online and in Person 14th May 2024)

Composer John Zorn’s record label Tzadik has brought together some of the most intriguing and experimental music from musicians and composers such as Mark Degli Antoni, Mike Patton, […]
May 10, 2024
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Disrupted Rhythms Shows May 2024

Disrupted Rhythms is a collaborative multimedia project suited to an era of disrupted rhythms, economic crises, pandemics, social upheavals and global political uncertainty.  Disrupted Rhythms is a […]
May 1, 2024

Creative Rhythms for Business (BIPC, Jubilee Library – 14th May 2024 11am-1pm)

How do rhythms work for you? Do you feel like you have enough time to step back from the frantic dash of life and reflect on […]
April 12, 2024

Modernist Poetry as Forensics: A Conversation with Chrissie Dobson (Online and in Person 23rd April 2024)

Forensics is the investigative practice necessary for criminal and/or legal proceedings. Forensics is often connected to particular state apparatuses known as the criminal justice system. In […]
March 27, 2024

Breton, Surrealism and Black Humour: A Workshop (In-Person and online. 20th February 2024)

André Breton is known as the founder of Surrealism, the author of numerous manifestos of surrealism, and Nadja (1929), the semi-autobiographical novel that pioneered stream-of-consciousness writing. He was […]