June 25, 2025

Podcast 41: Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Interactive Conversation with Tom Bunyard

The Situationist International (S.I.) was a political and social movement that ran from 1957 to 1972 that attempted to synthesise elements of Marxism and anarchist themes […]
February 1, 2024

Exploding Appendix Program 2024 (February to June)

Exploding Appendix is back for 2024. As always, all are welcome to our free sessions which take place every three weeks on a Tuesday.  Exploding Appendix […]
April 7, 2023

Cookery and the Avant-Garde: A Workshop (Online and in Person – 2nd May 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 […]
May 15, 2022
Rinne Groff and Leslie Boxbaum in Total Fictional Lie (1998) by Elvaror Repair Survice. Image (c) John Collins

Thinking through the Poetics of Failure with Sara Jane Bailes (In-venue and Online – 7th June 2022)

“Failure works.” Sara Jane Bailes notes in her 2011 book Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure. To say that failure works suggests that there might […]