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 is out! We’re joined by Lucy Jefferies (), Jenny Staff (.jenny), Kassia aka Bunty () and Susie Dea...
19/12/2025

🎙️New podcast episode is out! We’re joined by Lucy Jefferies (), Jenny Staff (.jenny), Kassia aka Bunty () and Susie Deadman () for an conversation about arts and culture on London Road: what’s working, what’s fragile, and what needs defending.

✨Together we talk about how artists, organisers, educators and communities can think collaboratively about building a thriving cultural life in Brighton & Hove across art, education, social spaces and grassroots organising.

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

😍We are looking forward to showing you the melodrama-inspired film we made at tomorrow’s Dada Cabaret and Christmas Part...
01/12/2025

😍We are looking forward to showing you the melodrama-inspired film we made at tomorrow’s Dada Cabaret and Christmas PartyCabaret! Here are some .

🎭Starring in the film: , , , , Kevin Grimwade, Christopher.
✨Directed by:
📸Cinematography director:
Camera assistant: Eleanor
👗Rental outfits by Gladrags Community Costume Resource Charity

🎂The film was made as part of Bradley’s bday celebrations series.

🤪Come along tomorrow to see the film and for an evening of randomness, laughs, art, weird performances, and joy. It’s free!

🎟️Free entry - booking is required.
⏰Tuesday 2nd December 2025 - 7pm start
👽In person at The Southern Belle, Brighton . This event won’t be online.

🎧New podcast episode is out ✨Bradley speaks with Victoria Margree (University of Brighton), author of “Neglected or Misu...
19/11/2025

🎧New podcast episode is out ✨Bradley speaks with Victoria Margree (University of Brighton), author of “Neglected or Misunderstood: The Radical Feminism of Shulamith Firestone”, to explore Firestone’s ideas, their controversies, and why they still matter today.

📚Shulamith Firestone’s “The Dialectic of Sex” (1970) shocked the world with its radical proposition: that women’s oppression is rooted in the biological realities of reproduction, and that liberation requires transforming nature itself. From artificial wombs to cybernetic feminism, Firestone reimagined what gender freedom could mean.

In this episode, we also trace Firestone’s influence on sci-fi, especially Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, and ask what her utopian vision offers us now.

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

🎬 Come make something trashy, beautiful, and completely over the top with us next week. ❤️🔥Visualise: dramatic close-ups...
18/11/2025

🎬 Come make something trashy, beautiful, and completely over the top with us next week. ❤️

🔥Visualise: dramatic close-ups, extravagant costumes, oversized emotions, drawing upon all the glorious excess of Sirk, Powell & Pressburger, Fassbinder, and Almodóvar. ✨

🎞️Whether you want to step in front of the camera or work with lights, sound, props, or production, there’s a place for you on set. You choose!

💋Dress up if you can, and if not, we’ll bring the melodrama wardrobe. 🎭
The finished film will premiere the following week at our Dada Cabaret & Christmas Party.

📅 Tuesday, 25 November 2025
🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove
🎟 Free – all welcome! Link in bio.

🌆Open Call: Manifestoes for the City 🌆Exploding Appendix is creating an anthology of new manifestoes for Brighton.We’re ...
13/11/2025

🌆Open Call: Manifestoes for the City 🌆Exploding Appendix is creating an anthology of new manifestoes for Brighton.

We’re inviting artists, writers, thinkers, dreamers, and troublemakers to submit new manifestoes that explore the relationship between avant-garde work and the city we live in.
Your manifesto could be a poem, photograph, collage, instruction manual, or something entirely unexpected. Capture the city as you see it.

🌀 Deadline: 30 January 2026 (11:59pm GMT)
📍 Open to anyone connected to Brighton
💻 Formats: text, image, sound, multimedia

📜 Guidelines for Submission:
🖼️ Up to 20 images in JPEG format
✍️ Poetry: max 1000 words
📝 Writing: max 2000 words

💰 Will you get paid?
Unfortunately, we can’t offer payment at the moment. The dossier will be digital, but if it goes to print, you’ll receive a free copy.

🔗 More info & full guidelines via the Google Form in bio

🍉New podcast is up! ✨We are so excited to share with you all our latest podcast from our session  Scholars in Gaza Under...
05/11/2025

🍉New podcast is up! ✨We are so excited to share with you all our latest podcast from our session Scholars in Gaza Under Siege: Defending Education, Resisting Erasure with Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina (), students representatives from RECONNECT (.khf .as ) & CHASE Brief Encounters ()

🎙️Tune in for a conversation on solidarity, resistance, and the struggle to defend education under siege.

🎧 You can watch it with video on YouTube or listen to it on Soundcloud. 🔗 https://www.explodingappendix.com/2025/11/05/exploding-appendix-podcast-46-scholars-in-gaza-under-siege-defending-education-resisting-erasure

🎨What if the avant-garde wasn’t born in Paris, but everywhere at once? 🎨In this salon, we’ll map a global, decolonial av...
04/11/2025

🎨What if the avant-garde wasn’t born in Paris, but everywhere at once? 🎨In this salon, we’ll map a global, decolonial avant-garde, exploring twelve artworks from across the world (two from each continent) to rethink modernism as a web of crossings, borrowings, and reinventions.

We’ll trace how African masks transformed Picasso, Arabic motifs reshaped Paul Klee, Indian thinkers reimagined Romanticism, and Nigerian modernists forged what Chika Okeke-Agulu calls a “compound consciousness of African subjectivity.”

Together, we’ll explore what happens when we redraw the map of the avant-garde, not as a European story, but as a world of encounters and entanglements.

*Please note, some of the artworks discussed on the night might change from the ones showed on this post*

📅 Tuesday, 11 November 2025
📍The Southern Belle, Hove & online
🌍 Free - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-the-decolonial-avant-garde-through-twelve-international-artworks-tickets-1657158679219

💭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

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