The Exploding Appendix Avant-Garde Art and Research Group + Related News and Events
The Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group that cuppently meets on Zoom. The meet-ups start at 7.30pm regularly fortnightly on a Tuesday.
Our aim is to create a space where artists, intellectuals and others can meet to discuss ideas, issues and creative projects. Evenings tend to comprise of relaxed informal discussions about art, art projects and ideas, as well as a focal point. This might be a film screening, a live performance, an improvisation/creative session, a work in progress session, a reading group, a guest talk, an interview, a panel discussion, a debate, a workshop, an exhibition, live music or a party. This is all very flexible and can be built around the interests of the group.
The meet-up runs alongside the Exploding Appendix website, a multimedia online magazine that produces videos, podcasts, articles, interviews and visual essays exploring ideas and culture generally, and can be used as a platform for presenting projects related to the group.
Whilst drawing upon the history of avant-gardist and counter-cultural ideas, we aim to explore a wide range of issues beyond the narrow purview of conventional art discussion. We welcome people working within different disciplines, different artistic mediums and coming from very different perspectives.
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June 16, 2022
“Exploding Appendix is the Subsidiary Remnants of a philosophical masterpiece. Part wasteland of the once refined, part architecture built of dismembered pieces.” First Rehearsal for an […]
May 15, 2022
“Failure works.” Sara Jane Bailes notes in her 2011 book Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure. To say that failure works suggests that there might […]
May 5, 2022
. In this session we invite people to share projects that they are working on. This could be an essay or piece of research, a scientific […]
April 4, 2022
“I’ve never encountered anyone whose work has so much anxiety around sensual erotic pleasure as yours does, because every time there’s anything in a performance you […]
March 3, 2022
In our digitally connected world photography can be found everywhere from social media platforms to Google Street View. Yet whilst we experience the near ubiquity of […]
February 11, 2022
From the 2008 financial crisis through to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of upheavals have challenged the way we think about the state and its role […]
January 21, 2022
The Situationist International (S.I.) was a political and social movement that ran from 1957 to 1972 that attempted to synthesise elements of Marxism and anarchist themes […]
September 10, 2021
Resurrecting The Bradley Show for 2021, we will be creating a live chat show in The Pipeline, Brighton, filled with talks, discussions, videos, interviews and music. The session […]
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
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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 […]
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 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 […]
February 14, 2021
’Pataphysics is the science of that which is superinduced upon metaphysics, whether within or beyond the latter’s limitations, extending as far beyond metaphysics as the […]
February 13, 2021
…there is a trade union version of entryism also being practised. And I think where C.L.R. James even turns away from that, and also turns […]
February 12, 2021
According to Leon Trotsky, “even a successful solution of the elementary problems of food, clothing, shelter, and even of literacy, would in no way signify […]
January 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 […]