Ken Hollings CV

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Lectures 2012

Most of my lectures took place in academic environments during the course of 2012. Over seven weeks between October and December 2012 I was again asked to present my lecture series to MA Communication Design students at Central Saint Martins. The themes were Media, Machines, Networks, Spaces, Dreams, Events, Cognition, following the same basic pattern as in previous years, but the lectures were also greatly expanded incorporating screenings of extended movie and documentary clips, breakout discussions and seminars. To expand the depth these still further I also presented a series of ‘Networks’ workshops to students on the Central St Martins MA Innovation Management course. Other lectures were given at Middlesex University and the University of Brighton School of Art. In addition to these I was also invited to speak at the following events:

October 11

‘The Psychoanalysis of Trash’

A lecture on Ludwig II of Bavaria, alchemy, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson as part of the English Heretic AGM held at the Masonic Hall in Bath

Events and Performances 2012

Most of 2012 has been spent completing work on The Bright Labyrinth, my new book for Strange Attractor Press. The book is based on lectures and readings I have been giving over the past four or five years – however, the material also required a great deal of my time and effort so I made a decision to forego my usual live schedule and work in private for greater part of this year. The following events proved to be exceptions.

November 5

‘Ideas Are One Thing, And What Happens Is Another’

A live reading specially created for The Cage Rattling event at Kings Place to commemorate the centenary of John Cage’s birth. This text was commissioned for the event and was completed but for last-minute scheduling reasons was not performed.

June 9

Welcome to Mars

A live reading of material from Welcome To Mars with audiovisual accompaniment at the Café Teater in Oslo as of ‘Only Connect’, organized by Ny Musikk for the promotion of avant-garde music and performance in Norway

May 5

‘Radiant Static: Seven Short Texts on Space

A reading of a new text sequence, taken from The Bright Labyrinth, as part of the Sonores festival in Guimaraes, Portugal

See also: Alien Transmissions at Sonores

May 3

‘Invading Present Time’

Reading from The Bright Labyrinth, organized as part of the opening to the Savage Objects conference, at the Sociedate Martins Sarmento, Guimaraes, Portugal

April 26

Public appearance with Tony White

To launch Tony White’s new book Dicky Star and the Garden Rule (published by Forma Arts and Media) to commemorate the 25^th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, KH was in conversation with the author at the Free Word Centre, London

Sunday, 24 February 2013

Print Media 2012

December

‘Spaceship UK’

KH’s essay ‘Spaceship UK’ appears in a limited-edition booklet The Twilight Language of Nigel Neale, designed by Rob Carmichael and edited by Sukhdev Sandhu published in conjunction with the Cathode Ray Séance event in New York on November 17, 2012. The volume is now available via mail order from Strange Attractor Press.

August

‘Spirit Horns’

Online publication as a PDF download from Metasound of KH’s ‘Spirit Horns, Parts One and Two’, originally composed as blog posts describing an afternoon spent with some Edison phonographs in the company of Michael Esposito and Aleksander Kolkowski. A direct link to the PDF can be found here. The author profile on the Metasound platform can be found here.

Audiovisual 2012

January

‘Cage Post Cage’ Lecture

The video of KH’s lecture on John Cage’s influence on language and sound originally delivered at the Off The Page in February 2011 at the Palace Theatre as part of the Off the Page Festival is finally made posted on Vimeo. After Boing Boing posts a link to it on their site, the video receives over 5,000 hits. To watch the film, please click here.

Print Media 2011

December

‘The Storm Towers of Atlantis’

Short story about the Kennedy family, the Space Race and the Nazis included in the New English Heretic Library anthology,Wyrd Tales 2

October

‘Parasitic Infestation: Some Notes on the Audiocassette Considered as a form of Technological Infection’

Introductory essay for the volume The Art of Worms, published by Touch/Bookworm to catalogue the designs for their Tapeworm cassette-only release label – cover art by Savage Pencil.

Audiovisual 2011

November 23

‘Ghost Blood Spectrum’

Hour-long live broadcast from the Resonance FM studios of readings from The Bright Labyrinth’ with music from My Cat Is An Alien

May 27

‘Which Way to Techno-Utopia’ Podcast

Available online as a podcast from Little Atoms: the recording of the panel that took place at the Free Word Centre featuring KH, Angela Saini, Becky Hogge and Gia Milinovitch

May 16

‘Invading Present Time: The Politics of Simulation’

A two-camera film of KH’s lecture delivered at the Ecole des Recherches Graphiques in Brussels on February 2 is posted on Vimeo as ‘Politiques de la Simulation’. To see the full video click here.

Events and Performances 2011

December 10

Wyrd Tales 2 Launch Event

Backed by electronic sound artist Asterism, KH presents a reading of extracts from ‘The Storm Towers of Atlantis’, a short story published in the New English Heretic Library anthology Weird Tales 2, at Luminous Books in London

November 10

‘The Fear Factor’
Panel convened at the Bishopsgate Institute featuring KH, David Aaronovitch, Julie Bindel and Timandra Harkness, chaired by Little Atoms’ Neil Denny as part of the Institute’s ‘Whose Mind Is It Anyway? series

October 20

Worm Eats Bear

Special live music and spoken-word event at South Bank’s Bear Garden to celebrate the publication of Touch’s The Art of Worms booklet, featuring a specially commissioned essay by KH, ‘Parasitic Infestation: Some Notes on the Audiocassette Considered as a form of Technological Infection’