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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 8, 2025

Subverting the Suit w/ Marren Hager (In Person and Online – 17th June)

What is a suit? What is its history? What is its symbolic value? How does the suit intersect with class, social status, gender, sexuality, and labour? […]
February 5, 2025

Reading Modernism’s Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis & Bestsellers (In Person and Online – 6th May 2025)

In early twentieth-century literature, scenes of reading offer a fascinating glimpse at how modernist writers viewed the act of reading itself and understood the challenges posed […]
February 5, 2025

Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picturebooks and the Child Reader w/ Hannah Field (online and in Person – April 15th 2025)

Children don’t just read books—they gnaw at the edges, rip, tear, and colour them in. While reading is often viewed as a disembodied act, Victorian movable […]
February 5, 2025

Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton & Hove #6: Artist-led Projects and Interconnectivity

Brighton & Hove is a city brimming with creativity, yet over the past decade, it has faced a series of crises—gallery closures, disappearing spaces, and increasing […]
February 4, 2025

Groove, Marxism and Music w/ Mark Abel (In Person and Online. 25th March 2025)

Groove music is the music of our age. […] The sounds emanating from the earphones of the millions of iPods and other audio devices that are […]
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 […]

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