Dr. James Riley is a researcher whose interests range from Beat poetry to ufology, and who is currently collaborating in the organisation of Peter Whitehead’s archives. This illustrated lecture will explore the apocalyptic imagery that permeates the representation of certain late-sixties events and artefacts. With excerpts of film music and visual art, Riley will discuss the symbolic status of 1969 as a terminal point at which the decade’s earlier optimism gives way to death, violence and ‘bad craziness'.