Ken Hollings is a writer based in London. His work draws freely upon trash culture, weird science, political intrigue and strange connections to reconfigure reality and demolish common assumptions.

From digital imagery to occult symbolism, from flying saucers to the theatre of cruelty, his work embraces text, spoken word, music and multi-media performances to create ideas and images for the 21st century.

Ken’s novel Destroy All Monsters combines the fall-out from Operation Desert Storm with Japanese monster movie iconography to reveal how cybernetic culture is creating a new world order of apocalyptic, warring communities.

‘Genuinely and spookily prescient’ – Toby Litt

His writing has appeared in a wide range of magazines and periodicals including The Wire, Sight & Sound, Bizarre, Frieze, Gargoyle and CTHEORY as well the anthologies Digital Delirium and The Last Sex from St Martin’s Press and Undercurrents from Continuum. He has presented texts at the ICA in London, the Transmediale Festival in Berlin, The CIM Festival in Holland, Sónar in Barcelona and the 2002 Sydney Biennale. He has also edited books by John Cage, Jean Cocteau and Hubert Selby, together with two volumes by Georges Bataille for which he also supplied introductory essays.

Ken has collaborated with a number of musicians and performances on live events, most notably Dutch composer Huib Emmer on opera and live multimedia performances, ‘electro mavericks’ Biting Tongues on video and album releases, Mangina and members of Berlin Techno crew Rechenzentrum. He has given lectures, readings and performances in clubs, cinemas and galleries and presented work on radio and television, both participating in documentaries and giving interviews.

As well as numerous live events, lectures and performances, Ken Hollings also has worked as a consultant on Clive Barker’s A to Z of Horror for BBC2, The Devil’s Juke Box, on Satanic influences on Western Music, for ZTD and Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man Alive for Channel 4.

He has taped interviews for Sci Fi Channel, LWT and Canadian cable channel N3TV, Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’ and appeared on various radio phone-in and interview shows. His live work has also included Q&As at the ICA, The Ritzy Cinema and the London Film Festival with such names as Alexandro Jodorowsky, The Danish Dogme filmmakers, US porn star Annabel Chong and African-American actor Forest Whitaker.

Special radio adaptations of his novel Destroy All Monsters have been presented by Festival Productions on the totallyword radio site and on Resonance FM. He is currently writing and researching a broadcast feature on the original 1960 ‘phone phreaks’ for Radio Three.