December 06
‘Ego In Exotica Sum: In memoriam Martin Denny 1911-2005’
Text for spoken word/audiovisual piece, performed with Graham Massey at the Green Room Theatre in Manchester on June 24, 2005, appears in Strange Attractor Journal Three from Strange Attractor Press. ‘We rob ourselves of paradise by our very presence there: to see it with our own eyes is to see it vanish before our eyes.’ A studio recording of the oration is available from SoundMuseum FM.
‘One of the most weirdly beautiful, beautifully weird magazines of the past hundred-odd years’ - The Independent on Sunday
September 06
‘Countdown Suspended: Space Soon and What Comes After’
Key note essay published as part of the programme to Space Soon: Art and Human Spaceflight, conference organized by Arts Catalyst at the Round House 9-13 September.
‘Where Are We Going? And What Are We Listening To? Merce Cunningham in Conversation, NYC July 2006’
Profile of Merce Cunningham, based on a visit to Westbeth in New York in July 2006, published in issue 271 of The Wire for September 2006
August 06
‘An Inventory of Other Islands’
Catalogue copy for Aleksandra Mir’s exhibition, Switzerland and Other Islands , at the Kunsthaus, Zurich. The text, in forty parts, is reproduced in English and German on a special foldout map, taking up over 18 A4 sides.
London Noir: Capital Crime Fiction
First UK publication by Serpents Tail of the London Noir anthology, edited by Cathi Unsworth, which includes the KH story ‘Betamax’. To order the book from Amazon click here.
April 06
‘London Noir’
First US publication by Akashic of the London Noir anthology, edited by Cathi Unsworth, which includes the KH story ‘Betamax’.
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.