Sign in

Exploding Appendix

@explodingappendix.bsky.social
43 followers 64 following 101 posts

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

PostsRepliesMedia
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A small selection of 📷 from our performance last Thursday for the Adelaide Salon at Brighton Beach House. For this expanded cinema performance, the performers become moving collages themselves, affixing images to their bodies and transforming, reconfiguring and recomposing their physical forms.
100
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This Saturday we will be heading to #London for our first-ever London Anarchist #bookfair @bookfairldn.bsky.social We will be selling our #poetry #chapbooks by young Gaza poet Roba Al-Sharif and activist Charlotte Head, part of Filton 25. 📅Sat 26 Sept, Floor 4 at Rich Mix, 10am-6pm. Free entry.
010
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We are so looking forward to #talk to #photographer Frances Marshall next Tue! 📹More about the history behind this project. 📅 Tuesday, 1 Sept, 7pm-9:30pm 
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 #Free, all welcome! Book your tickets & support Frances Kickstarter: www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-reli...
010
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💭 #Photographer Frances Marshall will join us to talk about her project “Queer Religion”, an international photo project exploring the lives and experiences of openly queer religious leaders and practitioners across the monotheistic faiths. Tue, 1 Sept, 7-9:30pm
 Southern Belle, Hove & Online Free
110
Reposted by Exploding Appendix
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm deeply ashamed of my profession. Its treatment of Jason Arday - right across the board - fills me with disgust and horror. The tormenting of a highly vulnerable man was seen as monetisable entertainment. This is a stain that won't wash off. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
bylinetimes.com
Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
14541821137
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
📢Our September-December 2026 programme is now live! 🤩All events are on Tuesdays, free and open to all. Online & in person at The Southern Belle, Hove, at 7pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/40341144033 👀Which sessions are you looking forward to attending? #Brightonevents #Artsandculture #Artevents
000
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
📚 #Books are back in stock! Grab our #poetry #chapbooks: explodingappendix.bigcartel.com ‘Daughter of Death’, Roba Al-Sharif £8+P&P (50% go to Roba in Gaza) ‘A Voice Is A Delicate Thing', Charlotte Head £8+P&P (£2 to Medical Aid for Palestine). It’s been an honour to be able to publish these!
530
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The end of an era! We are working on a new website, and we have now changed all our profile pictures from the old to the new logo designed by the talented @soofiya.bsky.social ! Exciting times, but also feels bittersweet to say goodbye to our old visual identity. Do you feel that too? #Branding
000
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 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, whether you'd like to perform or help capture the improvised dance there's a place for everyone. 📅 21 July, 7-9:30pm
 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove 🎟 Free
100
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Bradley shares what we will be discussing in our last session of the season this Tuesday: The #Encyclopaedia as #Montage: #Benjamin, #Bataille & #Queneau See you there! 📅 30 June, 7-9:30pm
🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online  
🎟 Free #surrealism #experimental www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-encycl...
030
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
📚 What if an #encyclopedia was less about answers and more about making unexpected connections? Last session of the season on fragments, #dictionaries, #montage, and #experimental rethinking. 📅30 June, 7-9:30pm, The Southern Belle, & Online.Free. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-encycl...
010
Reposted by Exploding Appendix
Aghh! Zine "Money" summer 2026 @aghhzine.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Today is World Sickle Cell Day! 🩸🌙 @inviswarriorscd.bsky.social invited us to run a #creative workshop x Great Exhibition Road Festival @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social We raised awareness about sickle cell & invisible disabilities, made zines & wrote wishes and pledges for our collaborative piece.
121
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We are deeply saddened to hear that Lottie Head, the author of our latest chapbook “A Voice Is A Delicate Thing”, has been sentenced to 6 years in prison with terrorism charges along with three others, part of the Filton 25. Solidarity with Lottie, Fatema, Sam & Ellie. filtonactionists.com
011
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It was such a pleasure to be invited to the #Royal #Pavilion Adelaide Salon #Art #Gala last weekend. We stepped into a world of contemporary and heritage art, curiosities, and spectacle. It felt truly magical, like travelling into an alternative world of oddities and prestige. #Brighton
030
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
@ferasalkabani.bsky.social join us to discuss his book. We'll talk about how cross-cultural encounters shaped understandings of #homosexuality from the 19th century to the aftermath of the Arab Spring. 📅 Tue, 9 June, 7pm 🌍The Southern Belle & Online 🎟 #Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-bu...
021
Reposted by Exploding Appendix
Feras Alkabani @ferasalkabani.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Delighted to announce that my first monograph, Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire, is now available in paperback 🎊 Get your copy for only £23.19 📕📘 📚 (with this discount code: GLR BD8) directly from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/richard-b...
053
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
In 2023, we talked to Fidge Bibblyotek Never Work Zine, MNamug & Nuria Castro @aghhzine.bsky.social & @soofiya.bsky.social about the multifaceted nature of zines as cultural artefacts, and the creative, political, and social dimensions of zines as intimate, DIY, and community-driven publications.
100
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
📽️Here’s a snippet of the podcast where we talk with Sussex English faculty professor Helen Tyson about how early #20th-century writers imagined the act of reading itself, & how reading became a site of transformation, conflict, & meaning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvD2... #Modernism #Literature
010
Reposted by Exploding Appendix
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In celebration of International Workers' Day, we've discounted everything on our website, including books on the histories of revolution and revolt that radically imagine what our futures can hold. Shop our Red May Sale, with up to 40% off all books!
versobooks.com
Red May Sale | Up to 40% off all books
“Not a penny off the pay, not an hour on the day!” This was the slogan that galvanised the 1926 General Strike, a moment where workers moved to take control of their workplaces, communities and lives....
0176
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Next session we turn to the lesser-known stage and film work of the #Bauhaus, exploring how movement, rhythm, and abstraction reshape the human figure. From "Triadic Ballet" to early abstract cinema. 📅 Tue 19 May, 7pm 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online 🎟 Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bauhaus-fi...
010
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
✒️Watch Charlotte Head 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 being incarcerated. 🎧Watch the full podcast on YouTube: youtu.be/stGuIKjNuE4?... #Poetry #BookLaunch #Reading
080
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🎬 What does it mean to grow up after Hiroshima? We explore the cinema of #Nobuhiko #Obayashi. Surreal, shifting, anti-war #films where youth becomes a way of thinking through history. 📅 Tue 28 April, 7-9:30pm 🌍The Southern Belle & Online 🎟 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coming... #Cinema #Event
020
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
📚Thank you to everyone who has come today and specially to Charlotte Head for sharing her words and experience so honestly with us💕 ✒️It's been such a powerful evening and we are so honoured to be able to hold spaces for these important conversations. #poetry #booklaunch #reading
080
Reposted by Exploding Appendix
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
openculture.com
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human carelessness, earthquakes and the grim efficiency of the United States Air Force. The first films of hug...
06719
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🎨Join us for a conversation with Tash (Radical Brighton) & Rifa Thorpe-Tracey, exploring how community, resistance and creative expression are being sustained in an increasingly challenging landscape. 📅 Tue, 7 April, 7-9:30pm 🌍The Southern Belle & Online 🎟 Free #Brighton #Free #Culture #Arts
100
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Second book launch this month: A Voice Is A Delicate Thing” by Charlotte Head.  Charlotte Head has written these poems in this book whilst in prison for trying to stop weapons from being made in the UK for Israel’s g€nocide in Gaza.  📅 31 March, 6-7pm
 🌍The Southern Belle, Hove & Online  
🎟 Free
100
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Next Tuesday, we'll explore the suffrage era as a moment of artistic and political experimentation. We’ll trace how struggles to extend the vote to women & the working classes intersected with modernist aesthetics, revolutionary politics & lived experience. Free www.eventbrite.com/e/1981998677...
000
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
✒️Chris Dobson, our Publishing Director, shares his process about how published our first poetry chapbook by Palestinian poet Roba Al-Sharif. 📚Support to Chris & Roba by getting a copy of the book and coming to our launch this evening to hear directly from Roba herself!  #Publishing #Poetrybook
100
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Join us for this online launch with readings from Palestinian poet Roba Al-Sharif, joining us from Gaza. Roba will be reading poems from “Daughter of Death”, which is our latest publishing venture led by Chris Dobson. 📅Tue, 10 Mar, 7pm 🌍Online 🎟Free www.eventbrite.com/e/online-lau... #launch
000
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🤩Our February-July programme is now live! All events are: 📆On Tuesdays 🆓Free and open to all ⏰7pm 📖Both online & in-person at The Shouthern Belle, Hove(unless specified). 🔗Book your tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/exploding-... 👀Let us know which sessions you are looking forward to attending #Free
000
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🎙️ Podcast 52: We speak with Esther Leslie & Sam Dolbear about their book “Dissonant Waves” on Ernst Schoen (radio producer, composer, and friend of Walter Benjamin), tracing exile, politics, and sound across the twentieth century. 🎧 Out now on YouTube + SoundCloud. #Posdcast #Sound #ErnstSchoen
100
Reposted by Exploding Appendix
Marxism and Disability Network (MDN) @marxdisability.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Our Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb! marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/m... From our archives - Scott Ritchie: Holding mad kids in community: Resisting Capitalism’s Disabling Processes in a Primary Grades Classroom marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2023/09/16/s...
Printscreen of the video recording's cover page with the title of the presentation on a yellow background, alongside HM's logo
011
Reposted by Exploding Appendix
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 17/02/2026
Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.
truthout.org
The Web Is Not Enough — Why These Left Media Workers Are Opening Physical Spaces
Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.
016645
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🗣️Next week! We’ll review the year, share plans, introduce publishing updates, and invite proposals as we shape the future of EA together. 📅 Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 7 pm 🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove. Online only upon request. 🎟 Free, all welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/exploding-... #Brighton
000
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📚What we got up to last Tuesday at our manifesto workshop. We looked into the structure and guide questions we could answer in a manifesto, examples throughout history, different formats, and then we made our own. ✂️We also played with different creative ways to create a collaborative manifesto #art
030
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🤗We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow for our first session of 2026 ✒️Bradley tells you more about what we’ll be doing at the manifesto workshop tomorrow. If you were to write a manifesto what will it be about? 🤩 📅 Tue, 3 Feb 2026, 7 pm 🌍 The Southern Belle, Hove & Online. 🎟 Free #Art
140
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
🎙️In 2018, a 12-part interview series with @danielandclara.bsky.social was left unfinished. This podcast becomes the long-awaited final chapter, reflecting on their work, tracing their return to the UK and a growing focus on the British countryside across their projects. Listen now on YT and SC
111
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
What would your manifesto say? Come explore the history of manifestos and make your own using the creative technique of your choice 🎨 Materials provided 📅 Tuesday, 3 February, 7pm 🌍 The Southern Belle & Online. 🎟 Free www.eventbrite.com/e/manifesto-... #manifesto #creativeworkshop #free
000
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🌆 Deadline extended - Manifestoes for the City We’re creating an anthology of new manifestoes for Brighton and inviting artists, writers, thinkers & troublemakers to respond. Poems, images, sound, collage, all welcome. 🌀 Deadline: 16 Feb 2026, 11:59pm GMT forms.gle/RdJzXbcc3z6y... #Brighton
000
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🎙️New podcast is out! It’s been almost a year since we talked w Simon James @simonsound.bsky.social about his career as a working-class artist, the Neolithic Cannibals project with young artists in Whitehawk, and the importance of the Class Divide, co-founded by his brother Curtis James. #soundart
150
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We believe in gatherings, half-formed ideas, bodies in rooms and voices online. In thinking together & undoing it. In free, accessible education for all. 💥 Thank you for being part of the experiment this year. Here’s to more mess, imagination & creative sabotage in 2026. Happy holidays from us!
021
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🎙️New podcast episode is out! Last year we were joined by Lucy Jefferies, Susie Deadman, Jenny Staff and Kasia for an informal conversation about arts and culture on London Road: what’s happening, what’s at risk, and how we strengthen it together. 🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/explodingapp...
soundcloud.com
Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton & Hove #4: Creativity on London Road
In this session, we will be joined by Lucy Jefferies (Quiet Down there), Susie Deadman (Sew Fabulous), Jenny Staff (artist at the Phoenix), Kasia Zermon (The Rose Hill) to have an informal discussion
020
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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!
010
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
😍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.
120
Reposted by Exploding Appendix
University of Sussex @sussex.ac.uk · 01/12/2025
Today is World AIDS Day, marked annually to unite people in the fight against HIV and AIDS. It was founded in 1988 and continues as a way to show strength and solidarity against HIV stigma and to remember lives lost. Find out more about resources and support: ow.ly/i6yC50XA2LY
ow.ly
World AIDS Day 2025
World AIDS Day is marked annually on 1 December to unite people in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
011
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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
120
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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
010
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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...
eventbrite.com
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.
000
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
📢 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
010
Exploding Appendix @explodingappendix.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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
030