KEN HOLLINGS & FRIENDS: AT THE GATES OF
PURGATORY
On Wednesday 5 April, we'll be presenting a
unique, long-form reading event at one of London's finest experimental music
and arts spaces, Iklectik Arts Lab.
Wednesday 5 April 2023 | Doors: 7:30pm | Start: 8pm
Our Kiosk opens 1 hour before doors. Tickets: £11 Advance / £13
OTD DICE TICKETS
More details and tickets are
available
here
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Ken Hollings will read from his latest book Purgatory – The
Trash Project Volume II: Towards the Decay of Meaning, accompanied by live
music from Lori E Allen, Martin McCarrick, Mark
Pilkington and Howlround, in solo performances incorporating voice, cello,
electronics and tape loops.
Ken writes: "In the past I have always given short readings based on
extracts from my work, but increasingly I have had members of the audience
coming up to me afterwards saying that they would have liked to hear a little
more. So, I thought I would give them a lot more.
At The Gates of Purgatory is a special ‘live audiobook’ adaptation of the first nine essays from my latest book for Strange Attractor: Purgatory – The Trash Project Volume II. This will be a continuous performance with no breaks or intervals featuring musical support and additional reading from Lori E Allen, Martin McCarrick, Mark Pilkington and Howlround.
I have worked with each of these amazing performers before, but this is the first time I’ve collaborated with all four of them at once. Expect a long deep dive into digitally looped cello, shimmering electronics and raw analogue tape effects. This is going to be a unique spoken-word experience. This may be a long reading for me, but it’s going to get very weird very quickly."
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Ken
Hollings' The Trash Project is a three-part work modelled upon
Dante’s Divine Comedy. Inferno, the first volume, deals
with US underground and exploitation movies made during the 1960s, while
Purgatory examines how nineteenth-century European attitudes towards
Beauty and Morality still influence our attitudes towards Trash today. The first
nine essays of Purgatory correspond directly to Dante’s account
of the journey made by the dead to reach the gate to Mount Purgatory, where they
will eventually atone for their sins.
Wednesday 5 April 2023 | Doors: 7:30pm | Start: 8pm
Our Kiosk opens 1 hour before doors. Tickets: £11 Advance / £13
OTD DICE TICKETS
More details and tickets are available here