Strange Attractor Press invite you to join us in celebrating the publication of Paradise, the final volume in Ken Hollings’ epic Trash Trilogy. The event will also celebrate 20 years since SAP’s first book event at The Horse Hospital.
doors: 7pm
Ken will read from the book, and copies of all three volumes will be on sale, along with the companion volume The Trash Concordance.
“What first attracted me to the prospect of creating one work in the shadow of another was Dante’s inflexible commitment to proportion, symmetry and uniformity in the depiction of his spiritual journey through the afterlife.”
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.