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Exploding Appendix
@explodingappendix.bsky.social
Art & Research Group led by Bradley Tuck dedicated to exploring the history and future of avant-garde and radical counterculture // Making complex ideas accessible to all with our free in-person and online events.
📍Brighton, UK
This was us last week 🤪 We are still processing what happened at the Dada Cabaret. Every year, it gets better & better, weirder & weirder.

🦑chaotic life drawing, impromptu performances, films, poetry, fish performances and some history.

Thank you to everyone who came & our amazing performers!
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
😍We are looking forward to showing you the melodrama-inspired film we made last week at tomorrow’s Dada Cabaret! Here is some #BTS.

🤪Come along for an evening of randomness, laughs, art & weird #performances

🎟️Free entry,booking required.
⏰Tue 2nd Dec- 7pm
👽In person at The Southern Belle.
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We need your unacceptable art + half-baked ideas! 🤪
Our annual Dada Cabaret is back: a weird, fun, chaotic and participatory event where you take the lead.

🥸Perform something or just come for the joyful nonsense and the lovely people.

🎟 Free, booking required.
📅 Tue 2 Dec, 7pm
📍The Southern Belle
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New podcast episode 🎧

A conversation with Victoria Margree on the radical feminism of Shulamith Firestone her arguments on reproduction, technology, and liberation, and why "The Dialectic of Sex" still resonates today.

Listen now 📚✨ www.explodingappendix.com/2025/11/19/p...

#Podcast #Feminism
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We’re turning our salon into a melodrama film set.

✨Imagine big emotions, bold styling, dramatic angles.

💋Join the cast or the crew

🎞️ Our finished melodrama will show at the Dada Cabaret week after.

📅 Tue, 25 Nov 2025
🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove
🎟 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/all-that-i...
All That Imitation Allows: A Melodrama-Inspired Filmmaking Session
Come film with us in front of behind the camera. The finished melodrama will premiere the following week at the Dada Cabaret.
www.eventbrite.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
📢 Open Call: Exploding Appendix Dossier 2.0 Manifestoes for the City. An anthology of manifestoes exploring Brighton and the avant-garde.

🖼️ Up to 20 images | ✍️ Poetry 1000 - Writing 2000 words
Deadline: 30 Jan 2026

More info and to submit: forms.gle/VRmvgfL9zvPj...

#Brighton #Opencall #Manifesto
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Our latest podcast from our session “Scholars in Gaza Under Siege" with Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina & students from RECONNECT is out!

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

🎧 www.explodingappendix.com/2025/11/05/e...
#Gaza #Palestine #talk
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What if the avant-garde wasn’t a European invention, but a global conversation?
We’ll explore 12 artworks from every continent to reimagine modernism as a network of exchange, resistance & reinvention.
🗓 Tuesday, 11 November📍The Southern Belle & online | Free
www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-th...
#Talk
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
What does it mean to think through touch? 💭

Join us to explore the surreal world of Jan & Eva Švankmajer, where spoons, teapots & clay become portals to imagination and resistance.

🗓Tuesday 21 October, 7pm | 📍The Southern Belle & online | Free

www.eventbrite.com/e/tactilism-...

#Surrealism
October 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
George and Millie tell you more about what we will be discussing in this week's online session, “Scholars in Gaza Under Siege: Defending Education, Resisting Erasure” on Saturday, 11 October 2025 at 10 am BST.

This event will be only online via Zoom
FREE entry
www.eventbrite.com/e/scholars-i...
October 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
For our next session, we’ll be joined by Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina (Al-Aqsa University, Gaza) & RECONNECT students to discuss solidarity under siege. We’ll learn about scholarship and art from Gaza, and reflect on defending Palestinian culture & education.
📅 Sat 11 Oct, 10-11:30am | Online only | Free
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🌅Here are some snippets of what we got up to in our last session, “What is Utopia”, and some books we drew upon for the session.

#Books #Utopia #Studies
September 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
✨Tomorrow we kick off our autumn season with What’s Utopia? ✨

Join us online or in person to explore the history of utopian thought & creatively map visions of a better world.

📅Tuesday, 9 September, 7pm
📍The Southern Belle & online
🌍 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/1652928416...

#Utopia #Brighton
September 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🍂 New season, new leaflet! We’re back with Exploding Appendix events exploring utopias, cinema, philosophy & playful workshops to spark ideas & imagine together.

Big thanks to @soofiya.bsky.social for our fresh new look

👀 Talks free in person & online:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/exploding-...
September 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🤩Next Tue, 9 Sept, 7pm (online + at The Southern Belle, Hove) we launch the autumn Exploding Appendix season!

🌱 We’ll explore utopian thought & map visions of a better world.

✨Free & open, bring a friend!

🔗In comments

#Freeevents #Brighton #Utopia #ArtSalon
September 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
👂The Exploding Appendix Dossier started in 2021, full of manifestos, music, poetry, film & more.

🎙️This episode brings together Robert Jones & contributors to revisit the first Dossier REVOLUTION ✶ ART ✶ MANIFESTO, and celebrate its radical spark.

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#Manifesto #Art
REVOLUTION*ART*MANIFESTO The Exploding Appendix Dossier #1.0
In January 2021, Exploding Appendix published the first volume of the Exploding Appendix Dossier. The volume focused on the triad of themes REVOLUTION*ART*MANIFESTO and was comprised of manifestos, mu
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August 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🎙️ New podcast episode 🎙️
From In the Mood for Love to Fallen Angels, Wong Kar Wai bends genre into something luminous and hypnotic.

We talk with Anna Warren about time, memory and the “mysterization” of everyday life.

🎧 Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud linktr.ee/explodingapp...

#WongKarWai
August 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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It’s expected to be a busy weekend in the city 🎉

Here's your guide for enjoying Pride safely and responsibly, including:
🙌 tips on how to plan ahead
❤️‍🩹 available first aid, medical help or support
🧑‍⚕️ harm reduction advice

Find out more 👉 www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/news/2025/st...
Stay safe and plan ahead for Pride 2025
As we get ready to host Pride 2025, here's your guide for enjoying the event safely and responsibly.
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
July 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
‼️ New podcast ‼️
C.L.R. James rejected bureaucracy and insisted that workers organise for themselves.

With Facing Autonomy, we explore Italian Autonomist Marxism and the politics of self-organisation today.

🎧 Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud linktr.ee/explodingapp...

#Marxism #Podcast
July 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
‼️ New podcast ‼️

On Aug 9 1969, utopia met the knife.

Manson’s Family wasn’t an aberration, they were born of the counterculture.

We speak to James Riley (The Bad Trip) on LSD, apocalypse + the dark mirror of the 60s.

🎧 Listen on YouTube + SoundCloud - linktr.ee/explodingapp...

#Podcast #Manson
July 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Our final session before autumn is next week! Come celebrate, reflect, 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 - www.eventbrite.com/e/defending-...
#WhatsonBrighton #Arts&Culture
June 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The Exploding Appendix Podcast relaunches today with Episode 40: “Marx and Poetics — A Live Conversation with Keston Sutherland,” with brand new music intro by Nick Hudson (the one in this reel).

🎙️ Episode out now and every other Wednesday on YouTube and Soundcloud: linktr.ee/explodingapp...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
What is a suit? Join us June 17 with Marren Hager for a night of conversation, craft + critique reimagining the suit through tailoring, sustainability + resistance.

📅 Tuesday 17 June, 7–9:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
📍 The Southern Belle, Hove & online
🌍 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/subverting...
June 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
💛 We had such a wholesome session last Tuesday. We explored friendships, created an original friend map, reflected on questions such as how friendship tastes.

Thank you for coming and to @soofiya.bsky.social for making us feel welcome and inspiring us to make new friends and become better ones!
May 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM