Exploding Appendix

16/08/2024

🤭Our art salons are back!

September is around the corner and with it comes a new season for Exploding Appendix. We are inagurating the Summer-Winter season with an interactive session: “Work in progress: A sharing session” and we want you to take charge.

In this session we invite you to come and share an artistic project of any discipline you are currently working, or or that you want to go back to, and get feedback from the attendees about it. Anything is welcome!

We will have 8 presentation places:
💡15 minutes long including the feedback time.
⚔️They are chosen on a first-come first-serve basis - so hurry up!
🪧You need to fill out the form in bio before Friday 30th of September.

This is a great opportunity to dust off some old projects or hare the first steps of a news one! You can also just come to enjoy, meet new artist and give feedback.

Come join us and DM’s if you have any questions!

👋🏼See you on Tuesday 3rd of August from 7PM for a 7:30PM start
Online and in person at the Southern Belle, Hove
Tickets and form in the link in bio!

📸Photos from the Disrupted Rhythms Project by

29/07/2024

🥸It’s Q&A time🥸

We hope you are having a great summer so far! As we prepare for the end of the year at EA we wanted to reintroduce ourselves and give you the opportunity to ask any questions about who we are, our sessions and projects or anything else that is popping in your head! 

As we love a great collaboration, we will then gather all the questions and create a video answering them for you! 

Don’t by shy and write it in the comments or you can also send us a DM!

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03/06/2024

We come to the end of our dancing cycle with our penultimate Exploding Appendix Art Salon before the summer break!

For this interview session, we invited Arabella Stanger who is a senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance and Joint Head of Subject for Drama at the University of Suss*x. In her book called “Dancing on Violent Ground”, Arabella challenges us to critically interrogate the apparent utopianism of dance and to look deeper at the geographies of exclusion that underpin it. We will be discussing her book, dance theories, art history, decolonialism and much more!

Come along tomorrow 4th of June, it’s FREE!
Online on Zoom & In-person at
Doors open 7pm for a 7:30pm start
Booking recommended https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-on-violent-ground-tickets-916101623617

Image: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Cargo X, 1989 Photography by Jed Downhill

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03/06/2024

🎉We come to the end of our dancing cycle with our penultimate Exploding Appendix Art Salon before the summer break!

🕺🏻For this interview session, we invited Arabella Stanger who is a senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance and Joint Head of Subject for Drama at the University of Suss*x. In her book called “Dancing on Violent Ground”, Arabella challenges us to critically interrogate the apparent utopianism of dance and to look deeper at the geographies of exclusion that underpin it. We will be discussing her book, dance theories, art history, decolonialism and much more!

☺️Come along tomorrow 4th of June, it’s FREE!
💻Online on Zoom (link on the Eventbrite page)
🍷In-person at
⏰Doors open 7pm for a 7:30pm start
🔗Booking is recommended via the link in bio!

Image: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Cargo X, 1989 Photography by Jed Downhill

*xUni

30/05/2024

🤩Our live show tomorrow will be a bit different than the previous one. We will start the event with a 45-minutes panel with some of the collaborators for the show and our guest speaker Marcus Bell from Goldsmiths University in London. Marcus is a q***r dance scholar investigating tragedy, choreography and decolonial q***r performance practices.

🥸Joining Marcus in the panel we will have charcoal artist Gemma Cook , music composer Nick Hudson (online) and Bradley Tuck , led by Caroline Oulton, who’s currently studying an MA at Suss*x University.

You will get the chance to know more about the project and how it links to all our individual and collaborative practises.

🍷There will be a free bar and snacks on the night
🔗Get your tiks in the link in bio from £6 for students
🎭Friday 31st May 7pm
📍The Meeting House, Falmer, Suss*x University

*x ***rdance ***r

24/05/2024

For the last 5 years (2020 onwards), I have been collaboring with an amazing selection of dancers, poets, photographers, cinematographers, fine artists and musicians to think through and explore rhythms and their disruption. It has been a labour of love. Over the next two weeks we are doing a number of shows. Come if you can. It is going to be amazing.

Disrupted Rhythms is a collaborative multimedia project suited to an era of disrupted rhythms, economic crises, pandemics, social upheavals and global political uncertainty.  Disrupted Rhythms is a poetic phenomenological investigation into this sense of disruption.

Since 2020, a group of musicians, dancers, essayists, filmmakers, fine artists and photographers began a collaborative venture to explore the nature of rhythms, and their disruption, by creating a series of dance inspired happenings, and documenting them via film, photography and essays.

Tonight, they will be bringing all aspects of this project together: Film, photography, live performance, and a live improvised score. Expect a multisensory, multimedia event involving live dancing, live drawing, live violin, and projected film.

*x *x

21/05/2024

Meet our collaborators part 3/3

☺️Last but not least… unfortunately not everyone will be physically present on our live shows but they form part of our previous dance encounters and they helped shape the project to what it is today. You will have to come to the show and try to spot them in the film!

🥺We are so lucky to have worked with so many different and talented artists since we started!

Come support our project on:
🤩Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of May, for , 8pm at St. Mary’s Church in Kemptown
🧐Friday 31st of May, live panel and show at 7pm at the Meeting House in the *xuni

🔗Get your tickets in the link in bio, invite your friends and share so we can get everyone to hear about our project!

📸Photo credits:
1,3,5,6,7,8
2,4

20/05/2024

Finally I can talk about this!

A new project with texts by Chris Kelso, recited by Elle Nash, Timothy Jarvis, Brian Evenson, Graham Rae and Stuart Dahlquist.

Music by me, Stuart, Christopher Manning, Lizzy Carey, Kianna Blue and a Tbilisi choir.

Mastered by Toby Driver.

To be released on vinyl on Merrigold records with artwork by Carmen Palth and Edging On Death.

Some of you in Tbilisi may have heard early versions of this when I got buried alive onstage at Junkyard.

Hugely excited for this release. It’s the first in a projected series of Vantablack pieces too.

https://edgingondeath.myspreadshop.com/vantablack+merch?idea=66450ab378ca8464ac64483e

29/04/2024

🌤May is almost here and our calendar is full of amazing events for you!

🧩We start the month with a brand-new workshop on how to use rhythm analysis creatively for your own business. This will take place on the 14th of May from 11am - 1pm at Business & IP Centre Suss*x This workshop is FREE! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-rhythms-for-business-tickets-890224464337

🎻Later that day at, 7pm, we have our usual Exploding Appendix salon for which you can join us at The Southern Belle or online. This month, we bring you a listening session and discussion of Tzadik Records' experimental albums. This talk is FREE! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tzadik-records-listening-session-tickets-891919995717

🎪As we previously announced, we are taking part in Brighton Fringe again this year with our Disrupted Rhythms multimedia show, on two consecutive dates! Come along on the 24th and 25th of May to explore rhythms with us at the amazing venue St. Mary’s Church at 8pm! https://www.brightonfringe.org/events/disrupted-rhythms/

🎉And lastly, we will be closing the month with a panel and performance of Disrupted Rhythms at the beautiful Meeting House building at the University of Suss*x. It’s a great chance to get to know more about the project from the mind behind it Bradleigh Tuque. This event will start at 7pm and we are offering discounted student tickets! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/892278778847

Can’t wait to see you this upcoming month. We would love to know which events will you be attending 😍

*x

27/04/2024

16 track album

01/04/2024

How is your bank holiday weekend going? 🐣

We have been diving into the “Anthology of Black Humour” by André Breton and preparing the presentation for tomorrow’s Exploding Appendix session.

👀Here’s a short extract:

‘It is now time,’ says Freud, ‘to acquaint ourselves with some of the characteristics of humour. Like wit and the comic, humour has in it a liberating element. But it has also something fine and elevating, which is lacking in the other two ways of deriving pleasure from intellectual activity. Obviously, what is fine about it is the triumph of narcissism, the ego’s victorious assertion of its own invulnerability. It refuses to be hurt by the arrows of reality or to be compelled to suffer. It insists that it is impervious to wounds dealt by the outside world, in fact, that these are merely occasions for affording it pleasure.’ Freud gives this common, but adequate, example: the condemned man being led to the gallows on a Monday who observes, ‘What a way to start the week!’

This is the perfect topic after coming back from holidays! We will have a good laugh! 😆

🥸 See you tomorrow 🥸

🎟️FREE - Tuesday, 2nd April 2024
Doors 7PM - Start 7:30PM
🪰In person at
💻Online via Zoom (link in the Eventbrite description)
Head to the link in bio to reserve your spot!

15/02/2024

Grab your calendar and pencil down these dates!

Here's our FREE hybrid upcoming events program from February until June 2024! Come along in person at or online via Zoom and join our relaxed conversations and discussions using cultural fragments and artistic expressions to explore philosophical, political and cultural ideas which respond intellectually and critically to the vital needs of our time.

Our mission in Exploding Appendix is to create accessible ways to bring topics you might have not come across otherwise or you were curious about and challenge these ideas collaboratively.

Swipe to get the vibe of our sessions at our cozy space in Hove from our 2023 program.

All events are free but booking is recommended!

See you next Tuesday!

05/02/2024

Our first session of 2024 is here!

We invited Rachel Stenner for this interactive conversation where we will explore interplay between the printing press and literary works. Drawing upon her concept of the Typographical Imaginary we will explore how writers imaginatively and self-consciously explored the materiality of the book.

Her innovative perspective highlights the way writers during the late medieval and early modern periods utilised imaginative portrayals of the print trade to dissect their evolving media landscape and comment upon it.

FREE but booking is recommended!
Tuesday 20th February
Online (details on Eventbrite) & In person
The Southern Belle, 3, Waterloo Street, Hove.
Door open at 7PM, session starts at 7:30PM
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-typographic-imaginary-in-early-modern-english-literature-tickets-818949057677

13/01/2024

Happy New Year 2024!

We have a great year ahead filled with more talks, workshops, performances and shows! We started the year reflecting on our values and how we want to approach this new chapter.

This year we will be approaching our online community from an encyclopaedic point of view, bringing a set of different fragments into a unified totality. We will be introducing new elements and literally revisiting old encyclopaedias and dictionaries, like the one in this post, and appendixes.

Is there something you are curious about that you would like us to explore? Let us know in the comments.

Photo: Nuttall's Standard Dictionary of the English Language, 1893

18/12/2023

As the end of the year approaches we look back to our last Exploding Appendix session The Dada Cabaret earlier this month 👯
Thank you so much for everyone who came perform, show work and improv, all the attendees and for the photos!

We will be back in January with the new talks and events. Our fundraiser is still open (head to link in bio) and you can now sign up to our newsletter to be the first one to read our news!

Have a great end of 2023! 💥

10/11/2023

Next week is packed with interesting talks.🤓 Next Saturday, our founder Bradley will be travelling to Lewes to discuss the play and graphic novel about Troussant L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution.

Joined by Nic Watts , Sakina Karimjee , the artists behind the graphic novel published by ; and Christian Høgsbjerg, they will discuss the play and its adaptation.

The discussion will take place at across the street from Sweetshop windows, where some images of the book have been exhibited.

Free - book in advance is recommended
Saturday, 18 November 2023
16:00 - 17:30
Symposium Wine Emporium, Lewes.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sweetshop-exploding-appendix-present-artists-talk-on-toussant-louveture-tickets-752392495207?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2A1k932m6%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2ANzg3NTg0OTAzLjE2OTk2MzU4OTI.%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AMTY5OTYzNTg5MS4xLjEuMTY5OTYzNTkwOC4wLjAuMA..

05/11/2023

This will be our last talk of the year! 🤩

Come along for an enlightening live conversation that delves into the intriguing realm of the Oulipo and its profound impact on modern thought. We are delighted to have a special guest, coming down from London, Dennis Duncan!

In his 2019 book, "The Oulipo and Modern Thought," Dennis Duncan explores the way Oulipo’s activities were influenced by the intellectual currents around them, reading the Oulipo alongside psychoanalysis, structuralism, analytic philosophy and Surrealism.

📚You are in for a treat!

Join us in person & online:
Tuesday 14th November
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Southern Belle, 3, Waterloo Street, Hove
Book your free space https://loom.ly/2Vwow2Q

Join us for an enlightening live conversation that delves into the intriguing realm of the Oulipo and its profound impact on modern thought. Established in 1960 […]

23/10/2023

📽️Sneak peek into the film screening we are putting together on Sunday 12th of November at 6 pm to fundraise for our project "Disrupted Rhythms"

Go to the link in bio to read more about it and to get your tickets! 🍿

🍰The Cake Tasting Society - Trailer🍰
Staring: Oliver Gibb, Ioanna Alexia Pitsillou-Kruizenga, Sam Ross, Marc Muir, Veronika Teo, Jojo Denovan, Daniel & Clara, Adi Sybelika, Kai Fiain, Alex Canwell, Lucy Le Brocq, Vicky Huggins, Natatia Robinson, Vanessa Tudor, Jothi, Delphine du Barry, Janet Lalla-Hamblin, Nick Hudson, and Bradley Tuck.

Written, directed, and produced by Bradley Tuck.
Director of Photography - Kai Fiain
Second Camera - Sara Budd
Composed by Nick Hudson
Edited by Bradley Tuck and Daniel & Clara
Production Assistant - Gary Huggins

Musicians: Nick Hudson (Piano, Analogue synth, Vocals), Lizzy Carrey (violin), Juliet Russell (Vocals), Wolfgang Dubieniec (bass drones).

14/10/2023

You are all invited for an evening of film and celebration!

As part of a fundraiser for our current dance project, Disrupted Rhythms, we will present two films that transport you into a world of surrealism and enchantment.

Join us on Sunday 12th of November at The Actors Pub for the screening of "The Cake Tasting Society." A 50mins surreal fantasy about a mysterious cake-tasting society, the seven people drawn into it and the criminal underworld out to thwart it. Directed by Bradley Tuck (Exploding Appendix, Disrupted Rhythms). Cinematography Kai Fiáin. Music composed by Nick Hudson (The Academy of Sun). Content warning: Nudity

The film will be accompanied by a short experimental piece from the Disrupted Rhythms project. Disrupted Rhythms is a collaborative multimedia dance project exploring rhythms and their disruption. Proceeds from the event will go to funding future Disrupted Rhythms shows.

Come along and help us make those shows possible!
Sunday 12th November 2023
18:00 - 20:00
The Actors Pub, 4 Prince's St, Kemptown, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 1RD.
Entry £5 - Get your ticket here: https://loom.ly/97v4474

10/10/2023

The next Exploding Appendix session will now be on Clausewitz for Artists.
*The Typographic Imaginary In Early Modern English Literature: A Live Conversation with Rachel Stenner had to be rescheduled for next year's programme.

What can artists learn from military theory? How can strategic thinking inform socially engaged art? How can we transform strategy into an artistic practice?

Drawing specifically on Carl von Clausewitz's classic theory of Napoleonic warfare, On War, we will explore what military theory can teach us about artistic practice. In this session, we will...

●Summarise the Clausewitz's On War.
●Explore how military theory has influenced art history, especially the history of avant-garde art.
●Explore how the ideas might be deployed in relation to socially engaged art.
●Explore how we might apply this to our own art practice.

Join us for free online or in person at Southern Belle, 3, Waterloo Street, Hove.
Door open at 7 pm - Session starts at 7:30 pm until 10 pm
To book your free ticket and find more info:https://loom.ly/PEae2iA

29/09/2023

Not long now!

Get your tickets, and join us this coming Tuesday with 🍸🎭

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cocktails-as-theatre-an-interview-with-the-society-of-cocktails-tickets-697298898777?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

22/09/2023

Some photos from our most recent event '¬¬SEX: A Workshop on S*x Double Negativity'

Another fun and insightful evening. We'll see you at the next one!

20/09/2023

🌟 UPCOMING EVENT 🌟

📅 Thursday, 5th October

📍 BIPC, Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street

📎 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manifesto-workshop-for-creative-industries-and-social-enterprises-tickets-718448808727

Manifesto Workshop for Creative Industries and Social Enterprises

The session will be run in conjunction with Defending Arts and Culture in Brighton, which was set up in response to the many cuts and crises facing arts, education, and culture in this city. One of our aims is to create a repository of all the different manifestos for the city of Brighton and Hove. This will help us understand people’s key demands for Brighton as a cultural space. We see the manifesto workshop as a step towards this, and we welcome people submitting their manifestos to this collection.

17/09/2023

We're so excited for our next event with Society of Cocktails !

The Society of Cocktails is a trailblazing force in the realm of libations, redefining the art of drinks through a captivating lens of theatricality and immersion. With a flair for crafting experiences that transcend the ordinary, they ingeniously meld mixology and gastronomy with a cocktail of artistic elements, resulting in unparalleled sensory journeys.

In this conversation, we will discuss the fascinating realm of their work and how they orchestrate moments of sheer enchantment and immersion.

To get your tickets, and for more information, head to https://linktr.ee/explodingappendix

14/09/2023

🚨Lobby the Academic Board special meeting

⏰8am Mon 18 Sept (meeting starts at 9am)

📍Checkland Building, Falmer Campus

📢Tell the VC what you think of her 'strategy' for the University

08/09/2023

08/09/2023

Upcoming events for Exploding Appendix. Starting Tuesday with a session on s*x and double negativity, as well as sessions on Cocktails as Theatre, the typography imaginary, the Oulipo and Dada cabaret.

01/09/2023

UPCOMING EVENT 📅

Join us as we dive into the paradoxes of s*x and its puzzling ambiguities.

Classical logicians tell us that a double-negative is a positive, yet in the intricate realm of our daily lives, clarity often eludes us. On this night full of contractions, we will explore an act of s*x that is not s*x, but also not not s*x, which means that it is s*x, but it is also not s*x at the same time - sort of.

Head to the link in our bio for tickets and more information.