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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July 13, 2020

The Upcoming Exploding Appendix Dance Film Project (Brighton, UK)

Exploding Appendix is committed to both an intellectual and practical investigation into an avant-gardist inspired participatory creativity. Over the summer of 2020 we aim to explore […]
July 12, 2020

The Bad Trip: Charles Manson and the end of the Sixties. A live discussion with James Riley (Online Group Video Discussion – 11th August 2020)

On August 9th 1969, Charles ‘Tex’ Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian broke into the gated home of the actress Sharon Tate, which she […]
July 8, 2020

Radical Art for a Radical Politics: A Live Discussion with Laura Mulvey (Online Group Video Discussion – 28th July 2020)

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 and […]
July 2, 2020

UP THE REPUBLIC! A Bastille Day Special with Richard Barbrook (Online Group Video Session – 14th July 2020)

  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 […]
June 18, 2020

Against Equality: A Live Discussion with Yasmin Nair (Online Group Video Session)

  “With gay marriage and the fight thereof, the argument was always, “People should be able to marry their same-sex partners in order to access tax […]
June 6, 2020

Acid Communism: A Live interview with Jeremy Gilbert (Online Group Video Session)

  “The concept of acid communism is a provocation and a promise. It is a joke of sorts, but one with very serious purpose. It points […]
May 22, 2020

Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of Language (Online Group Video Session)

  At the turn of the 20th century, the philosophy of language had exploded into a huge academic discipline. A generation of authors, scientists and philosophers […]
May 12, 2020

Night Sweats & Fever Dreams – A Live Interview with Oli Spleen and Nick Hudson (Online Group Video Session)

  At this Exploding Appendix meeting we will be joined by Oli Spleen (Pink Narcissus, Spleen, and solo work Gaslight illuminations) and Nick Hudson (The Academy […]
April 23, 2020

Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema (Online Group Video Session)

Image: Still from John Cage & Leharen Hiller, HPSCRD, 2013   On 28th April 2020, the Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group will be […]
April 15, 2020

Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie (Online Group Video Session)

  On 21st April 2020, the Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group will be holding another interactive video chat (via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84468775170) from 19:30 […]
April 2, 2020

The Open-Mic Manifesto Night (Online Group Video Session)

Image: Bouquet of Eyes, 1930, Hannah Höch   On 7th April 2020, the Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group will be holding another interactive video […]
March 25, 2020

The Right to be Greedy (Online Group Video Session)

Image: William Morris   On 31st March 2020, the Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group will be holding another interactive video chat (via Google […]
March 23, 2020

‘The Avant-garde in Crisis’ (Online Group Video Session)

Image Header: Naum Gubo’s Linear Construction in Space No. 24 Featured image: Aleksander Rodchenko Collage   On 24th March 2020, the Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice […]
March 20, 2020

Exploding Appendix Quarantine Hub (Online Meetings)

  Due to the current COVID-19 outbreak, the general meetings of the Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Practice and Research Group (Brighton Chapter) will be subject to rescheduling (see […]
December 11, 2019

Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group: February to June Schedule

Read the programme as PDF in full here For a paper copy please contact explodingappendix@gmail.com Due to the current COVID-19 outbreak some sessions will be subject to […]
September 9, 2019

Exploding Appendix Avant-Garde Art Practice & Research Group: October and November Schedule

  The Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group meets upstairs at The Marwood, 52 Ship Street Brighton, England, BN1 1AF. The meet ups start […]
May 22, 2019

Exploding Appendix Avant-Garde Art Practice & Research Group: July, August and September Schedule

  The Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group meets upstairs at The Marwood, 52 Ship Street Brighton, England, BN1 1AF. The meet ups start […]
March 28, 2019

Exploding Appendix Avant-Garde Art Practice & Research Group: April, May and June Schedule

  The Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art Practice and Research Group meets upstairs at The Marwood, 52 Ship Street Brighton, England, BN1 1AF. The meet-ups start at […]
January 30, 2019

Exploding Appendix Avant-Garde Art and Research Group: February/March Brighton Programme

  The Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art and Research Group (EAAARG) is a meet-up that meets upstairs at The Marwood, 52 Ship Street Brighton, England, BN1 1AF. […]
November 16, 2018

Exploding Appendix Avant-Garde Art and Research Group: November/December programme

  The Exploding Appendix Avant-garde Art and Research Group (EAAARG) is a regular meet-up that meets upstairs at The Marwood, 52 Ship Street Brighton, England, BN1 […]