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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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 […]
January 16, 2021
I am convinced that our greatest hope in combating a scale of climate change that significantly inhibits human flourishing lies in a turn away from […]
January 15, 2021
“All you drunken Shiksa sweethearts with your bloodshot eyes of blue All you border-crossing Feyglekh who’ve been quarantined for flu All you lost exilic aliens, […]
November 2, 2020
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 […]
October 26, 2020
In time honored tradition, Exploding Appendix welcomes you to their third night of art and anti-art, participatory creativity and revelry! Let us scale the heights […]
October 26, 2020
“In a very real way, the Ethiopian revolution was the only actual revolution produced by the wave of youth radicalization that swept Europe and North America […]
October 7, 2020
“Cartoon music for me was a real breakthrough in terms of musical form, how it was structured. It seemed to me that it was completely revolutionary […]
September 26, 2020
“… I suggest that the fascinating “impossibility” of Mary’s virgin motherhood constitutes precisely its attraction for those constructing antimarriage and antireproduction narratives in the nineteenth […]
September 9, 2020
1968 was a year that heralded revolution and revolt across the world. Whilst we have become accustomed to in-depth analysis and cultural nostalgia for these […]
August 10, 2020
“Man lives on nature – means that nature is his body, with which he must remain in continuous interchange if he is not to die. […]
August 8, 2020
“The rhythm that is proper to capital is the rhythm of producing (everything: things, men, people, etc.) and destroying (through wars, through progress, through inventions […]
July 13, 2020
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 World […]
July 13, 2020
On the 25th August, the Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group will be meeting in an undisclosed location near Preston Park 7pm until 10:30pm (Email us […]