A one-day programme of readings, screenings and performances focused on radical perception and associated countercultural legacies.
The programme refers to the cosmic horror story by H. P. Lovecraft, as well as its subsequent film adaptation directed by Richard Stanley and starring Nicolas Cage. It examines how narrative shifts when reality itself becomes unstable and, like the work of the programme’s participants, engages with psychedelia, spirituality, pharmacology and the aesthetics of altered experience.
Curated by Susan Finlay, Didi Wambugu and Matt Williams to celebrate the launch of Finlay’s latest novel, The Ultraviolet Catastrophe, with contributions from Stephen Barber, Dave Green, John Higgs, Amber Husain, Kenichi Iwassa, Susan Finlay, Mariel Franklin, Jamie Sutcliffe, Zoë Taylor, Richard Stanley and Carl Williams.
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