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.

‼️ 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
28/03/2025
🎨Brighton & Hove is known for its creativity, yet artists here are losing spaces, struggling with precarity, and feeling...
26/03/2025

🎨Brighton & Hove is known for its creativity, yet artists here are losing spaces, struggling with precarity, and feeling more disconnected from each other than ever. How can we reconnect and fight for our city’s creative future?

Join us for a powerful panel discussion on artist-led projects, grassroots initiatives, and reclaiming space for creatives. Featuring:
✨ Pascal and Paulina from The Adelaide Salon , who lead an artistic exchange in a home-based space.
✨ Sam Williams .studio, artist bridging art & social engagement.
✨Neil from Social Circles social__circles, Brighton Socially Engaged Artists peer group
✨ Arabel Lebrusan , founder of Arts Socials.

🗓️ Tuesday 1 April 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!

Tag a fellow artist & come be part of the conversation to shape our city’s future! 👇🏼🎭

We had such a great time on Tuesday with  - everyone was really engaged and inspired by their work. 🤗One of the parts th...
13/02/2025

We had such a great time on Tuesday with - everyone was really engaged and inspired by their work.

🤗One of the parts that captivated us the most was the discussion around how Daniel & Clara position themselves within landscapes, creating this fascinating interplay between human subjectivity and environment; transforming traditional landscape representation.

There’s an “uneasy sense of subjectivity” where landscapes aren’t just passive backgrounds, but almost living, psychological spaces that provoke subtle tension and complex emotional responses.

Imagine walking through a landscape and feeling like the environment is almost alive, telling a story. That’s the kind of magic they’re creating with their work! 🌄🎨

Do check out their work and follow their journey - you are in for a treat ✨

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