The Psychoanalysis of Trash
by Ken Hollings
£17.99
ISBN: 9781913689858
352 pp. | 130x 182mm
30+ illustrations
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The follow up to Inferno and Purgatory is the final volume in Ken Hollings’ The Trash Project, a three-part series of personal reflections on Trash and Trash Aesthetics.
All copies of Paradise bought from our web site will come with a free copy of The Trash Concordance, a 136pp book highlighting some of the structural and thematic correspondences between The Divine Comedy and The Trash Project.
“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.”
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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.
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Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster based in London. As well as the first two volumes of his Trash Trilogy, he is the author of The Bright Labyrinth, Welcome to Mars, The Space Oracle and Destroy All Monsters. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies as well as in features and series for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and Resonance 104.4 FM. He teaches at the Royal College of Art and Central St Martins College of Art and Design.
Ken Hollings is a master of connecting the dots between avant-garde art history, outré culture and weird science.
David Pescowitz Boing Boing
Ken Hollings has been described as both a genius and an alien. He is the kind of writer who looks up at a million points of light in the sky and starts to connect the dots.
Toby Amies BBC Radio 4
