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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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 […]
July 13, 2020
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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 […]