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Third and final day of Episode 2 sees further conversations with Evan Calder Williams and Eugene Thacker (both on Zero Books), an absurdist performance from Taku Unami and a solo vocal performance from Keiji Haino.

Sunday 22

All the Colours of the Dark, Except Black

Evan Calder Williams

Sunday 26 Feb/3.30pm/ Day or Festival Pass

In which Mute and Film Quarterly’s correspondent on ornament, dialectics, melodrama, and pessimism argues that horror, especially the horror of darkness, is not a depth lurking under the surface of our banal, repetitive lives, as maybe H.P. Lovecraft or Hammer horror would have it. The real darkness is in coming face to face with what has no profundity whatsoever: there is no depth, just layers and layers of surface…

Cosmic Pessimism

Eugene Thacker

Sunday 26 Feb/5.00pm/ Day or Festival Pass

On a planetary scale, over deep time nothing could be more insignificant than the human: is reality then un-human? Is this the horizon of thought as it confronts the unthought? Does this relate to Renaissance occult (musical) thinkers of the cosmic and the "disharmony of the world"? Can we rethink the world as unthinkable, and without us? Mute Magazine’s "Occultural Studies" columnist, philosopher and occasional noise artist Eugene Thacker attempts to avoid the usual philanthropic pep-talk…

Performance by Iain Campbell F-W

Inhuman Grand-Guignol Theatre

Taku Unami

Sunday 26 Feb/7.30pm/ Day or Festival Pass

Inspired by the supernatural horror of H. P. Lovecraft, black metal, philosophical horror, self-destruction and/or removal and ‘non-live’ objects, as much his routes in minimal Japanese improvisation, Taku’s performances seem to increasingly be about a kind of existential absurdity: life is cosmologically meaningless, and action, any action seemingly pointless. But (pompously, absurdly), still we do stuff. Why?

Performance by Iain Campbell F-W

Keiji Haino

Sunday 26 Feb/9.15pm/ Day or Festival Pass

Wherein one of the greatest experimental, noise, rock musicians of the last 30 years collapses his performance down to a vocal introspection, (both whispered and horrific). And during which you are welcome to join us in thinking about Haino’s interests in the half-spaces between life and non-life, existence and non-existence, Cf.: nijiumu, a term coined by Haino, which means something like "the blurring of that which is and that which is not”.