‘Activate Only When Absolutely Necessary: Utopian Memories in the Documentary Films of Mika Taanila’
Essay for the exhibition catalogue, Mika Taanila, Human Engineering, published by the Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich.
‘Robot Power, Robot Pride: A Vindication of the Rights of Machines’ Essay for Strange Attractor Journal Two, published by Strange Attractor Press, London.
‘Entertaining, informative, evocatively scripted’ – Time Out
‘A Muscular Joy: Tod Dockstader in Conversation, Westport Connecticut April 2005’
Late-night radio mystique and the science of tape manipulation, cartoon soundtracks and computer software with one of the pioneers of electronic music in the US, originally published in The Wire, issue 256 for June 2005. To read this essay online click here.
‘King Kong Appears in Edo: A Literal Translation’
Specially commissioned essay, published in the critical anthology King Kong Cometh! edited by Paul A. Woods and published by Plexus Books, London.
‘Godzilla Has Left The Building – A Personal Reflection’
Issue 7 of Nude magazine for Winter 2005. ‘Godzilla has always been good to me over the years, the way only a bad dream can be.’
About Me
- Ken Hollings
- Ken Hollings is a writer based in London. His work appears in a wide range of journals and publications, including The Wire, Sight and Sound, Strange Attractor, Frieze, Noon and Satori, and in numerous anthologies and collections. His novel Destroy All Monsters was hailed by The Scotsman as ‘a mighty slab of trippy, cult, out-there fiction, mind-bending reading’. He has written and presented critically acclaimed programmes for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, Resonance FM, NPS in Holland and ABC Australia. Ken is the author of Welcome to Mars, The Bright Labyrinth, The Space Oracle, Inferno and Purgatory - all available from Strange Attractor Press/MIT. His latest book 'Paradise: The Trash Project Volume Three' will be published by Strange Attractor Press/MIT in the autumn of 2024. His album with Howlround as The Howling, Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway, is currently available from The Tapeworm.