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.

We are so looking forward to talk to Frances Marshall Photography next Tuesday! Learn more about the history behind this...
28/08/2026

We are so looking forward to talk to Frances Marshall Photography next Tuesday! Learn more about the history behind this project in the video below and see you next week!

📅 Tuesday, 1 September 2026, 7pm-9:30pm�🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 Free, all welcome!
Q***r Religion - A photography talk with Frances Marshall

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🏳️‍🌈Q***rness and religion are often imagined to be fundamentally opposed. But what happens when we look closer?💭For our...
28/08/2026

🏳️‍🌈Q***rness and religion are often imagined to be fundamentally opposed. But what happens when we look closer?

💭For our first session of the season, photographer Frances Marshall (F R A N C E S M A R S H A L L) will join us to talk about her project “Q***r Religion”, an international photographic project exploring the lives and experiences of openly q***r religious leaders and practitioners across the monotheistic faiths.

📖After travelling internationally for the past three years, photographing people finding ways to live openly within religious institutions that have historically promoted q***rphobia, the project is becoming “Q***r Religion Volume 1”, a limited-edition hardback photobook.

📸Join Frances for a conversation about the people she has photographed and the questions that emerged through the project.

📚 Support the publication of Q***r Religion Volume 1 via Kickstarter (link in the event & Frances bio)

📅 Tuesday, 1 September 2026, 7pm-9:30pm

🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online
🎟 Free, all welcome! Book via the link in bio

All the photos are from Q***r Religion project by Frances Marshall

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25/08/2026
📢Our September-December 2026 programme is now live!📚1 September - Q***r Religion with Frances Marshall (F R A N C E S  M...
20/08/2026

📢Our September-December 2026 programme is now live!

📚1 September - Q***r Religion with Frances Marshall (F R A N C E S M A R S H A L L)
👠22 September - Reclaiming Regency with Zack Pinsent. Part of Slow Fashion Week (Brighton Fashion)
🇨🇳13 October - Maoism, Cultural Revolution and the 60s
✝️3 November - Nuns in Cinema: From Melodrama to Nunsploitation
📽️24 November - Le triangle (三角形): A Film Challenge (In person only)
👯‍♂️1 December - Dada Cabaret and Christmas Party (In person only)

🤩All events are free, on Tuesday at 7pm and open to all. Online & in-person at The Southern Belle, Hove.
Book your free tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/40341144033

👀Which sessions are you looking forward to attending?

Last night at the Rewilding Imagination Lab our guest host Bradley Tuck / Exploding Appendix took us on an exploration o...
14/08/2026

Last night at the Rewilding Imagination Lab our guest host Bradley Tuck / Exploding Appendix took us on an exploration of rhythm analysis and disruptive rhythms – we laughed and screamed, became entangled, and awoke a deeper attention to the rhythms within us and around us.

This month on the couch to answer the artist therapy questions was Lab assistant Victoria Matthews, and the open platform became a collective discussion reflecting on the Labs so far.

Thanks you so much to everyone who came along and for always leaping in with open minds to these collective experiments. And huge thanks to Firstsite Colchester for hosting, and Arts Council England for funding.

The next Rewilding Imagination Lab will be on Thur 10th September with guest host Tereza Violet Stehlikova – book a free ticket here: https://danielandclara.com/Rewilding-Imagination

📚Books are back in stock! You can now get a copy of our poetry chapbooks via our Big Cartel shop (link in bio)📚‘Daughter...
04/08/2026

📚Books are back in stock! You can now get a copy of our poetry chapbooks via our Big Cartel shop (link in bio)

📚‘Daughter of Death’ by Roba Al-Sharif (رُبا) is a collection of poems and two prose pieces by a P@lestinian writer from G@za. Set out in Arabic and English on facing pages, the book holds love, writing, media, technology, and survival together with clarity and force. The prose pieces add context and philosophical depth, making this a vital chapbook from a voice writing under extreme conditions.
✏️40 pages, A5 size, English translations by the author.
🔗£8 + postage (50% of sales go to Roba in G@za)

📚‘A Voice Is A Delicate Thing' by Charlotte Head (Charlotte (Lottie) Head), who wrote these poems in prison after taking action against weapons being made in the UK for Isr@el’s g€nocide in G@za. These poems emerge from confinement, resistance, and the fight to remain human under pressure. They move through love, childhood, mental health, radical politics, and hope that refuses to die. Lottie is currently in prison as part of the Filton 25 (FREE THE FILTON25).
✏️32 pages, A5 size.
🔗£8 + Postage (£2 goes to Medical Aid for Pal€stine).

❤️It’s been an honour to create this space to publish these powerful, important and beautiful books.
🎨Link in bio to access the shop

Calling artists and creative explorers, the next Rewilding Imagination Lab is coming up very soon!Join us on Thur 13th A...
28/07/2026

Calling artists and creative explorers, the next Rewilding Imagination Lab is coming up very soon!

Join us on Thur 13th August at Firstsite Colchester for our free monthly gathering for artists, creatives and the curious to come together for collective experimentation and exploration.

This month we'll be joined by writer, filmmaker and performance artist Bradley Tuck, who will be leading a Lab called Disrupted Rhythms but as always we won't be giving anything away, you'll have to come along to find out more!

👉 It's free but make sure to book as places limited: https://danielandclara.com/Rewilding-Imagination

🌀 What happens when a group of people tries to move together using three metres of latex?Join us for a Disrupted Rhythms...
11/07/2026

🌀 What happens when a group of people tries to move together using three metres of latex?

Join us for a Disrupted Rhythms dance shoot, where we’ll undertake a psychogeographic experiment using three metres of latex and other materials to explore movement, space, and collective navigation.

💃 Whether you’d like to perform or help capture the improvised dance through video, photography, or drawing, there’s a place for everyone.

No experience is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to experiment.

📹 Disrupted Rhythms is an ongoing dance and rhythmanalysis project that began in 2020, exploring rhythms and their disruption across the body, everyday life, and society. Born during the pandemic, the project investigates how rhythm shapes our lives through movement, improvisation, and collective experimentation.

📸 Each year we create a new movement experiment and document it through film and photography.

📅 Tuesday, 21 July 2026, 7pm-9:30pm
 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove
🎟 Free, all welcome! Link in bio

Photos from previous dance shoots and shows by the talented Lucy Le Brocq

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.

🎬 What does it mean to grow up after Hiroshima? In our next session, we’ll explore the cinema of Nobuhiko Obayashi, from...
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

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