Exploding Appendix

Exploding Appendix Art & Research Group led by Bradley Tuck dedicated to exploring the history and future of avant-garde and radical counterculture. No tradition is sacred.

Exploding Appendix is the subsidiary remnants of a philosophical masterpiece. Part wasteland of once refined, part architecture built of dismembered pieces. Exploding Appendix uses cultural fragments and artistic expressions to explore philosophical, political, and cultural ideas. Bursting through your intestinal tract, Exploding Appendix offers an online platform combining essays, articles, web s

hows, podcasts, photography, comics, and other art pieces to provide a multimedia rupture to your pleasant morning stroll. We hold a suspicious distaste for the etiquette of any shade. We like our art brewed in the murky sewers of scandal and controversy; our theory was born out of a disregard for tradition. We seek to melt and meld, mince and mash, flip and fuse. We seek to bring the most unexpected together in a feverish gourmet of irreverence. We like our culture to be challenging and unexpected. Whether it is dark and macabre, strange and absurd, insightful and thought-provoking, or just plain mesmerizing, we like artistry that doesn’t exactly do what it said on the tin. We like our politics to be equally challenging. We would like to imagine a future without victims or parasites, where the emancipation of all grounds the fearless invention of tomorrow. Yet we will hold no fe**sh over which path will take us there. We seek to use thoughts, theories, traditions, and ideas like an experimental chef concocting the most unexpected cuisine. All traditions will be ours.

💭What does it mean to think through touch? 🧐 When censorship limited their filmmaking, Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajer...
14/10/2025

💭What does it mean to think through touch? 🧐 When censorship limited their filmmaking, Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová turned to ceramics and experiments in “tactilism” exploring how ordinary objects could become “alchemistic tools” for imagination and resistance.

🎨In this session, we’ll explore their surreal films, ceramics, and writings - from Conspirators of Pleasure to Touching and Imagining - and ask how tactilism might challenge the dominance of vision, and how the everyday can become a portal to creativity and sensory freedom.

🗓Tuesday 21 October, 7pm
📍 The Southern Belle, Hove & online
🌍 Free – link in bio

✨Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow as we kick off our autumn season with our session “What is Utopia?” ✨Togethe...
08/09/2025

✨Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow as we kick off our autumn season with our session “What is Utopia?” ✨

Together we’ll explore the history of utopian thought and imagine our own visions of a better world through sketches, ideas, and creative mapping.

📅 Tue 9 Sept | 7-9:30pm (doors 6:30)
📍 The Southern Belle in Hove & online
🌍 Free & open to all - booking required via the link in comments

🍂 New season means new leaflet! 🍁We’re really excited to share the autumn line-up of our art salon events until December...
04/09/2025

🍂 New season means new leaflet! 🍁We’re really excited to share the autumn line-up of our art salon events until December.

From utopias to cinema, philosophy to playful workshops, it’s all about sparking ideas and imagining together.

✨Our events are free, open to all, online and in person at The Southern Belle (unless specified) at 7pm.

🔗You can now book your tickets for the events via our Eventbrite - link in bio!

🎨Also, did you noticed our rebrand? 👀 Huge thanks to our friend and designer for the gorgeous new logo and design ideas & support. Do check out Soofiya’s work - it’s amazing😍

‼️ New Podcast Episode ‼️ What does it mean to face the autonomy of the working class?C.L.R. James turned away from part...
30/07/2025

‼️ New Podcast Episode ‼️ What does it mean to face the autonomy of the working class?

C.L.R. James turned away from party bureaucracy, from union hierarchy, from the idea that liberation had to be granted from above. He insisted that workers organise for themselves, freely, directly and autonomously.

In this episode, we’re joined by Facing Autonomy to discuss C.L.R. James, Italian Autonomist Marxism, Left Communism, Anarchism—and the politics of self-organisation today.

🎙️ Featuring reflections on Facing Reality, the legacies of 20th century radicalism, and how we might reimagine worker power in the 21st.

🌀 Listen now via YouTube + SoundCloud - link in comments

🌅Our final session of the season before autumn is here! 💭✨Join us for our chilled last event part celebration, part refl...
20/06/2025

🌅Our final session of the season before autumn is here! 💭✨Join us for our chilled last event part celebration, part reflection, part creative workshop. We’ll look back on what we’ve learned and built so far to spark ideas for the future.

Whether you’ve been with us since day one or are just joining now, come and connect, contribute, and imagine what’s next for arts & culture in Brighton & Hove.

📅 Tuesday 24 June, 7–9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
📍 The Southern Belle, Hove & online
🌍 Free - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/defending-arts-and-culture-in-brighton-hove-8-party-and-plan-tickets-1230117848599

Can we design friendship? 💛👯‍♀️ We’re so excited to welcome our friend, brilliant designer and zine-maker Soofiya () to ...
19/05/2025

Can we design friendship? 💛👯‍♀️ We’re so excited to welcome our friend, brilliant designer and zine-maker Soofiya () to take over our next session with a special evening all about rethinking how we make and sustain friendships and build community, beyond likes, matches, and algorithms.

Together we’ll draw, map, share and imagine new ways of connecting, with plenty of space for play, reflection, and maybe even meeting a new friend or two!

📅 Tuesday 27 May, 7–9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
📍 The Southern Belle, Hove & online 
🌍 Free - book your tickets on the link in bio!

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🎭 One theme that keeps surfacing in our Defending Arts and Culture sessions is how limited resources and shifting priori...
08/05/2025

🎭 One theme that keeps surfacing in our Defending Arts and Culture sessions is how limited resources and shifting priorities shape the cultural life of our city. In this upcoming event, we’ll explore how austerity and cuts are affecting the spirit of Brighton & Hove.

Join a panel of artists and union as we discuss what’s at stake and what’s possible.

📅 Tuesday 13 May, 7–9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
📍 The Southern Belle, Hove and online
🌍 Free & open discussion - book your tickets on link in bio!

✨ Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Helen Tyson about how early 20th-century writers imagined the act of...
28/04/2025

✨ Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Helen Tyson about how early 20th-century writers imagined the act of reading itself.

We’ll dive into Virginia Woolf’s portraits of child readers, Freud’s psychoanalysis, bestselling romance novels by Ethel M. Dell, and more.

📚 Explore how modernism, mass literature, and psychoanalysis intersect - and how reading became a site of transformation, conflict, and meaning. A must for anyone interested in Woolf, modernism, psychoanalysis, or the hidden dramas of reading.

🗓️ Tuesday 6 May 2025, 6:30 Doors for 7 pm start.
📍 Online and in person at The Southern Belle, Hove
🔗Free entry book booking required - link in bio!

Ever torn a page out of a book as a kid? 👀Victorian children definitely did, and sometimes they were meant to! Join us n...
07/04/2025

Ever torn a page out of a book as a kid? 👀Victorian children definitely did, and sometimes they were meant to!

Join us next week for a conversation with author and scholar Hannah Field (), exploring the wild, whimsical world of Victorian movable picture books.

From pop-ups to panoramas, Hannah reveals how 19th-century kids experienced reading not just with their eyes, but with their whole bodies.

🗓️ Tuesday 15 April 2025, 6:30 Doors for 7 pm start.
📍 Online and in person at The Southern Belle, Hove
🔗Free entry - booking required - link in bio!

28/03/2025

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