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 13, 2020
The Exploding Appendix Questionnaire is an ongoing data collecting exercise that, drawing upon divergent public figures from different intellectual disciplines and artistic practices, seeks to […]
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 23, 2020
“We affirm that the beauty of the world has been enriched by a new form of beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car with […]
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 26, 2020
Exploding Appendix are about to produce an online multimedia publication dedicated to compiling research on the past, present and future of the avant-garde. Each issue will […]
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 28, 2020
The Exploding Appendix Questionnaire is an ongoing data collecting exercise that, drawing upon divergent public figures from different intellectual disciplines and artistic practices, seeks to […]
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 25, 2020
Exploding Appendix is a book whose sacred heart has been ripped out, and finds itself growing, eternally, as a series of fragmented, incohesive appendices. Deprived […]
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 […]