May 11, 2023
In this session we will be joined by Christian Hogsbjerg and Cathy Bergin to discuss the international reverberations of the Russian Revolution of 1917, especially in […]
April 26, 2023
. . This year Exploding Appendix will be taking part in Brighton Fringe. We will be presenting our show: Disrupted Rhythms. Disrupted Rhythms is a collaborative […]
April 7, 2023
Traces of the culinary pervade the history of the avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde. Whether attempting to destroy the distinction between art and everyday life, to reclaim […]
March 7, 2023
Marx and Poetics: A Live Conversation with Keston Sutherland (Online and In Person. 11th April 2023)
**CHANGE OF VENUE** We will be joined by poet and scholar Keston Sutherland to discuss the poetic language used in the works of Marx. In an […]
February 13, 2023
**CHANGE OF VENUE** When Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex was published in 1970 it caused controversy. Arguing that the oppression of women lay in women’s biological […]
January 28, 2023
In this session we will be talking to Patricia McManus about the politics of dystopian fictions, their relationship to utopian literature and what theorists like Theodore […]
January 4, 2023
Rap music has often been heard in conjunction with issues of policing and criminality. Sometimes as a theme addressed within the music, or critically engaged with […]
January 2, 2023
“Surrealism means revolution, not spectator sports.” — protest slogan used outside the Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage show in 1968 Surrealism was a radical art movement […]
December 30, 2022
Exploding Appendix is back for 2023. As always, all are welcome to our free sessions which take place every three weeks on a Tuesday. Exploding Appendix […]
December 23, 2022
Homaging filmmakers like George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, John Waters, Jack Smith, Richard Elfman and the Cockettes, the Exploding Appendix players gathered together to produce their own […]
November 20, 2022
Image. Section from Marcel Janco, Cabaret Voltaire, 1916 In time honored tradition, Exploding Appendix welcomes you to their fourth night of art and anti-art, participatory creativity […]
November 5, 2022
Original photo by Gabriella Matei . Design by Carolann Bossom In 2017, Bradley Tuck founded Exploding Appendix. Part of the idea behind the project was to […]
October 25, 2022
Poster illustration by Helmi Tourni In her writings on both 1960s post-colonial Lebanon and the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) Zeina Maasri has produced numerous fascinating books […]
October 18, 2022
Photographer: Neil Philip Whitehead. Model Bradley Tuck. For “Fuck Off“. In 2015, in an attempt to subvert Fashion Magazines like i-D, Dazed and Vogue, a group […]
October 1, 2022
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho, with its combination of sex, violence, suspense and playful subversion of audience expectations has become one of the most iconic and critically […]
September 6, 2022
Christopher Lasch was a writer and cultural critic, who is best known for his 1979 best-seller, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of […]
September 2, 2022
In her writings on both 1960s post-colonial Lebanon and the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) Zeina Maasri has produced numerous fascinating books exploring the development of posters […]
July 30, 2022
“What did Robespierre think? When Egypt prepared to choose a ship, same oar, the old does YOU JAZZ POET OF THE LATE black patent swashbuckle evening, […]
July 6, 2022
Notwithstanding his occasional illusions of omnipotence, the narcissist depends on others to validate his self-esteem. He cannot live without an admiring audience. His apparent freedom from […]
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 […]