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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.

21/04/2026

🎤Watch and listen to Charlotte Head .mh read her poems from our latest poetry pamphlet, “A Voice Is A Delicate Thing”, and get to know more about the process behind her work and her experiences whilst incarcerated.

🎧 Podcast out now on YouTube (with video) + SoundCloud (sound only). Link in bio.

14/04/2026

🎬 What does it mean to grow up after Hiroshima? In our next session, we’ll explore the cinema of Nobuhiko Obayashi, from the surreal horror of “Hausu” to his final film “Labyrinth of Cinema”, a dreamlike anti-war message released a year before his death.

🎨Moving between comedy, musical, fantasy and historical reflection, Obayashi’s films use collage, experimentation, and shifting tones to reimagine how war is remembered, often through the perspective of youth.

Born near Hiroshima, his work returns to a persistent question: how do you grow up in the shadow of catastrophe?

Together, we’ll watch clips and think through the relationship between youth, memory, and war across his films.

🎬Images from the films: Hanagatami 2017, Labyrinth of Cinema 2019, School in the Crosshairs 1981, The Girl who leapt through time 1983.

📅 Tuesday, 28 April 2026, 7pm-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 Free, all welcome! Book your place: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coming-of-age-movie-after-hiroshima-the-cinema-of-nobuhiko-obayashi-tickets-1981999865953

29/03/2026

📹New podcast! You can now watch the full recording of the powerful & emotional book launch of “Daughter of Death” by Palestinian poet Roba Al-Sharif ._.sharif5 , with readings and a Q&A at the end.

📚This is the first publishing venture under our new publishing strand, led by Chris Dobson.

✒️Have a watch, get the book and let us know which poems touched you the most.

🎧 Out now on YouTube (with video) + SoundCloud (sound only). Link in bio.

24/03/2026

🌍Who gets to shape culture in this city? How do we build real solidarity?

🎨Join us for a conversation with organisers and cultural workers rooted in Brighton & Hove, exploring how community, resistance and creative expression are being sustained in an increasingly challenging landscape.

🎤 A panel with:
Tash from Radical Brighton
Rifa Thorpe-Tracey (Refigure LMT / SheSays Brighton)

Part of our Defending Arts & Culture in Brighton & Hove series.
📅 Tuesday, 7 April 2026, 7pm-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 Free, all welcome! Book your place via the link in comments.
Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton & Hove #9 : Solidarity & the City

10/03/2026

✒️Chris Dobson, our Publishing Director, shares his process about how he ended up publishing, by hand, our first poetry chapbook by Palestinian poet Roba Al-Sharif ._.sharif5

📚Show some love and support to Chris & Roba by getting a copy of the book and coming to our launch this evening to hear directly from Roba herself!

📅 Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 7pm  🌍 Online only via Zoom   🎟 Free, all welcome! Book your place via the link in bio.

📖To get a copy of the book, email Chris at [email protected] or buy it via Etsy (link in bio) Physical copy: £8 + £3 UK postage and packaging  Digital version: £5.  50% of sales are going to the author.

03/03/2026

🤗We are so excited to invite you to this online launch with readings from Palestinian poet Roba Al-Sharif, ._.sharif5 joining us from Gaza.

📚Roba will be reading poems from her new poetry chapbook “Daughter of Death”, which is our latest publishing venture under our publishing strand, led by Chris Dobson.

🌿Roba’s poems contain a surprising and interesting range of themes considering their traumatic context: including love, the nature of writing, media and technology. The prose pieces offer context and philosophical concerns.

✒️Join us from wherever you are to hear from talented Roba. You can also get a copy of the book before the event by emailing Chris at [email protected] Physical copy: £8 + £3 UK postage and packaging  Digital version: £5.  50% of sales are going to the author.

📅 Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 7pm  🌍 Online only via Zoom   🎟 Free, all welcome! Book your place via the link in bio.

24/02/2026

📢Our February-July 2026 programme is now live!

📚10 March – Online launch: Daughter of Death by Roba Al-Sharif. Online only
🗳️17 March – The Suffrage Avant-Garde
🎨7 April – Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton and Hove #9
🇯🇵28 April – The Coming-of-Age Movie after Hiroshima: The Cinema of Nobuhiko Obayashi
📽️19 May – Bauhaus: Film and Performance
✒️9 June – Richard Burton, T. E. Lawrence & the Culture of Ho******ic Desire with Feras Alkabani
📖30 June – The Encyclopaedia as Montage: in Benjamin Bataille and Queneau
🕺🏼21 July - Disrupted Rhythms Dance Shoot (On Location)

🤩All events are on Tuesday, free, open to all, at 7pm and online & in-person at The Shouthern Belle, Hove (unless specified). Book your tickets via the link in bio

👀Which sessions are you looking forward to attending?

18/02/2026

🎙️In this episode, we’re joined by Esther Leslie and Sam Dolbear to discuss their book Dissonant Waves, a creative exploration of the life and work of Ernst Schoen.

✒️Poet, composer, radio programmer, theorist, and childhood friend of Walter Benjamin, Schoen’s life moved between Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris and London, tracing the upheavals of the twentieth century.

🎨Through radio history, exile, imprisonment, friendship and political struggle, Dissonant Waves asks what it means to “suffer the century” and how art and politics collide in sound.

📚 A conversation about radio, critical theory, comradeship, and the broken promises of modernity.

🎧 Out now on YouTube + SoundCloud. Link in bio.

17/02/2026

🗣️ What do you want from this community? How would you like the future of Exploding Appendix to look like?

Our Annual General Meeting is open to everyone, whether you’ve taken part in our sessions or are simply curious about getting involved.

We’ll review the past year, share future plans, and vote on key issues, but this isn’t just a formal meeting. It’s a space to reflect, exchange ideas, and imagine new directions together.

📚 Expect updates from across our wider projects, including a publishing update from Chris and a conversation about expanding participation.�
💡 Bring your proposals, questions, and ideas, let’s shape the future of EA collectively.

📅 Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 7 pm� 🌍 The Southern Belle , Hove. Online only upon request. � 🎟 Free, all welcome! Book your place via the link in the comments.

01/02/2026

🎙️ In 2018, began a twelve-part interview series with moving image artists . The project unfolded over a year, except that the final part was never written.

🌀 This podcast becomes the long-awaited twelfth chapter.

🌿 We revisit the original conversations and reflect on Daniel & Clara’s work from 2018 to now, tracing their return to the UK and a growing focus on the British countryside across projects including Avebury Imaginary, Landscape Imaginary, Birding, The Lost Estate and more.

🎧 Out now on YouTube + SoundCloud. Link in bio.

22/01/2026

✨ WE ARE BACK! We are starting our 2026 art salon season with this manifesto workshop led by

What do you want to put out into the world right now?📚 From Marx & Engels to SCUM, from Dada to punk, xenofeminism to tech utopias, manifestos have always been a way to launch ideas and statements into the world with urgency, creativity, humour, and provocation.

✂️In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore the history of manifestos and the techniques behind them for you to create your own. It can be posters, typography, zines, collage, film, spoken word, or something harder to define. Manifestos don’t have to be a specific format, neat, or serious.

We’ll start with a guided conversation about form, devices and intent, then open the space for you to create.

🎨 Art materials provided, but you’re welcome to bring anything specific you’d like to work with.
🧠 No prior knowledge needed, this session is open to everyone.

📣 What you create can also be submitted to our digital dossier open call for Manifestoes for the City (now open - link in bio).

📅 Tuesday, 3 February 2026, 7pm
🌍 in Hove & Online.
🎟 Free, all welcome! Book your place via the link in bio.

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