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November 20, 2025

Dada Cabaret and Christmas Party 2025

In time-honoured tradition, Exploding Appendix invites you to their seventh night of art, anti-art, participatory creativity, and revelry! In time-honoured tradition, Exploding Appendix invites you to […]
November 19, 2025

Podcast 47 – The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone: A Live Interview with Victoria Margree

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 capacity to […]
November 11, 2025

All That Imitation Allows: A Melodrama-Inspired Filmmaking Session

Come film with us in front of behind the camera. The finished melodrama will premiere the following week at the Dada Cabaret. For one evening only, […]
November 5, 2025

Exploding Appendix Podcast 46 – Scholars in Gaza Under Siege: Defending Education, Resisting Erasure

“Solidarity means changing the way the world works with those in crisis.” – Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina, The Guardian, 19 August 2025. Despite the deliberate devastation […]
November 5, 2025

Open-call: Exploding Appendix Dossier 2.0 “Manifestos for the city”

 We are creating an anthology of new manifestoes for the city. ThemeThe broad theme for our anthology is tied to the idea of the city, generally. […]
November 4, 2025

Mapping the Decolonial Avant-garde through Twelve International Artworks

We will look together at twelve artworks from around the world—two from each continent—focusing on the early twentieth century. Peter Bürger’s Theory of the Avant-Garde tied […]
October 7, 2025

Tactilism and the Films and Artworks of Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová

What does it mean to think through touch? When Soviet censorship restricted their filmmaking, Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová turned to ceramics and experiments in tactilism. […]
September 16, 2025

Scholars in Gaza Under Siege: Defending Education, Resisting Erasure

“Solidarity means changing the way the world works with those in crisis.” – Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina, The Guardian, 19 August 2025. Despite the deliberate devastation of educational […]
September 10, 2025

Dressing Dykes: A conversation with Eleanor Medhurst x Slow Fashion Week 2025

Dressing Dykes: A conversation with the Author Eleanor Medhurst of Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion A Slow Fashion Week special Presented by Exploding Appendix x Brighton Fashion Collective […]
September 2, 2025

What is Utopia?

In this salon we will not only explore the history of utopian thought but also invite participants to imagine and creatively map their own utopias. Together […]
September 1, 2025

Art Salons Programme: September – December 2025

 A new season of Exploding Appendix begins! This autumn, will explore together the power of imagination across art, politics, and performance. From utopian visions of better […]
August 27, 2025

Podcast 45: The Exploding Appendix Dossier #1.0 REVOLUTION*ART*MANIFESTO with Robert Jones & contributors

In January 2021, Exploding Appendix published the first volume of the Exploding Appendix Dossier. The volume focused on the triad of themes REVOLUTION*ART*MANIFESTO and was comprised of manifestos, […]
August 13, 2025

Podcast 44 – The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai with Anna Warren

It is assumed that genre films lack artistic merit, unoriginal in concept and lacking the vision of the auteur director but whether it is a gangster […]
July 30, 2025
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Podcast 43 – Facing Autonomy: Autonomist Marxism and Worker Self-Organisation with Zara Richter

The Facing Autonomy collective take their name from both the 1956 book Facing Reality, co-authored by, amongst others, C.L.R. James and Cornelius Castoriadis, which brought together […]
July 9, 2025

Podcast 42 – The Bad Trip: Charles Manson and the end of the Sixties with James Riley

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 […]
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 […]
June 11, 2025

Podcast 40: Marx and Poetics w/ Keston Sutherland

We are joined by poet and scholar Keston Sutherland to discuss the poetic language used in the works of Marx. In an essay entitled ‘The poetics […]
February 10, 2025

Exploding Appendix Event Program 2025 (Online and in Person (Brighton). February to June)

Exploding Appendix is back for our Spring season 2025 As always, all are welcome to our free sessions which take place every three weeks on a […]
February 8, 2025

Subverting the Suit w/ Marren Hager (In Person and Online – 17th June)

What is a suit? What is its history? What is its symbolic value? How does the suit intersect with class, social status, gender, sexuality, and labour? […]
February 5, 2025

Reading Modernism’s Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis & Bestsellers (In Person and Online – 6th May 2025)

In early twentieth-century literature, scenes of reading offer a fascinating glimpse at how modernist writers viewed the act of reading itself and understood the challenges posed […]

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