August 4, 2021
Due to be published in 2022, Nina Power’s What do Men Want? Masculinity and its Discontent is set to explore contemporary masculinity in crisis. Rather than […]
August 3, 2021
”CAUTION WILL GET US NOWHERE.” Julian Hanna, The Manifesto Handbook: 95 Theses on an Incendiary Form (Zer0 Books) p. 19 The Manifesto is the art medium […]
August 3, 2021
“That’s the beauty of the new economy. There is a game for everybody, or at least every demographic. The rule is this: From each according to […]
August 3, 2021
The Bloomsbury Group was a loose network of artists, writers, and intellectuals who lived, worked or studied in Bloomsbury in London. Comprised of Thoby Stephen, […]
July 16, 2021
This podcast was recorded as part of the Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group’s fortnightly meetings. If you would like to join these sessions […]
June 16, 2021
“Civility is destructive because it perpetuates falsehoods, while vulgarity can keep us honest.” Amber A’Lee Frost, The Necessity of Political Vulgarity Amber A’Lee Frost is […]
June 14, 2021
Hey everyone, Bradley here. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure and challenge of going on Greg Scorzo’s Art of Thinking podcast. These […]
June 14, 2021
On the 14th July 1789, revolution was overtaking Paris. An economic crisis and shortage of bread (in part occasioned by France’s involvement in the American […]
May 26, 2021
Joe Pastorious and Janet Waverley are an emotionally healthy young couple, who are deeply in love with each other. However, their relationship is shattered when Janet is diagnosed as a psychopath […]
May 3, 2021
The art of George Grosz (1893-1959) provides bitterly satirical and haunting grotesque caricatures of the world in which he lived. Emerging out of the First […]
April 25, 2021
“By putting my body in these places, I thought of the generations of people who used to live there. Now desolate, only time and wind […]
April 25, 2021
“The irrationalities of non-taylorized bodies and non-normative sexualities haunt the margins of the Bauhaus, as do more familiar haunters: ghosts, spirits and mysticism.” Elizabeth […]
April 24, 2021
It is assumed that genre films lack artistic merit, unoriginal in concept and lacking the vision of the auteur director but whether it is a […]
April 12, 2021
Curated by Ethan Almond There is a joke within the Jewish community that defines the optimistic Jew as one that thinks things cannot get any worse. […]
April 2, 2021
In a period of political authoritarianism, increasing scope and power of private tech firms, and a series of crises that have required a fundamental rethinking of […]
March 25, 2021
“…the Proletkult engendered controversy because it embodied a politically charged vision of the newly empowered Soviet proletariat. The most committed members took the idea of […]
March 23, 2021
In January 2021, Exploding Appendix published the first volume of the Exploding Appendix Dossier. The volume focused on the triad of themes REVOLUTION*ART*MANIFESTO and was […]
March 10, 2021
After publishing the first volume of our Exploding Appendix Dossier, we are now working on a second volume. To read the first volume click here. The […]
March 7, 2021
Joe Pastorious and Janet Waverley are an emotionally healthy young couple, who are deeply in love with each other. However, their relationship is shattered when Janet is diagnosed as a psychopath by […]
March 6, 2021
I think the mantra at the time was ‘a radical aesthetics for a radical politics’ and that longstanding position, going back to the Soviet Union […]