On Friday 6 December, I'd be delighted if you could please join me and Strange Attractor Press in celebrating the completion of my monumental Trash Project with the publication launch for Paradise: The Psychoanalysis of Trash at The Horse Hospital. The event will also celebrate twenty years since Strange Attractor’s first book event at this most blessed and favoured venue.
I will be reading from Paradise, alongside a performance from Howlround’s Robin The Fog on reel-to-reel tape recorders. You will of course know us better as The Howling.
Copies of all three volumes – Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise – will be on sale, along with their companion volume The Trash Concordance; and I will be signing copies of all four titles while stocks last.
‘Virtuosic in its scope…never less that compelling in its sheer erudition’
Chris Hill, Fortean Times
‘Energetic and enthusiastic, Hollings’ conception of trash is poetic, exaggerated and true to the conceptual and ultimately confrontational nature of the underground.’
Laura Jacobs, Art Monthly
In the third and final volume of his personal reflections on Trash Aesthetics, Ken Hollings tells the story of three kings who squandered everything they had in a grandiose spectacle of waste. King Ludwig II of Bavaria, ‘King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, the ‘King of Pop,’ all shared the same doomed innocence. Their lives and early deaths were connected through individual displays of unfettered extravagance that brought them to the very edge of ruin. Each of them lived out their personal ideals of beauty and pleasure – even after the money was gone. In his reworking of Dante Alighieri’s Paradiso, Hollings presents Heaven as a place of rebellious but tragic self-indulgence.
Here are the details
December 6th
Doors 7pm
The Horse Hospital
Colonnade
London
Free Entry
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