SPK Dokument. 1 & 2
- Bib ID:
- 6608771
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
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- Dokument 1
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- Dokument 2
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- Dokument 1
- Description:
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- [London] : SPK, [1981-1982]
- 2 volumes ([9], [14] unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Summary:
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Two zines issued in very limited numbers as manifestos by SPK to accompany the original releases of their first two albums. Dokument 1 introduces these publications "as the first in a series of Dokuments, with the intention of providing a visual interpretation of SPK to accompany standard aural output." Dokument 1, "expressly intended for use with the first LP by SPK, Information Overload Unit," outlines a "project ideal to express the content of various psycho-pathological conditions," supersede "rational thought structures" and share "mental experiences through sound." Dokument 2 was compiled as SPK's second album, Leichenschrei (1982), was being prepared for release in April 1982, and discusses topics such as the "sounds of emotional disturbance" and "behaviour changes produced by acoustic stimuli." The booklets are very much of their time and resemble earlier work by COUM, Jon Savage and Linder Sterling, in their use of pornographic magazines cut up and juxtaposed with the products of industrial society. SPK, like COUM, were particularly interested in the darker, more violent, graphic sources culled from psycho and neuro-surgery, and medico-historical records of genetic mutation, mutilated bodies and biological aberration. They were undoubtedly motivated by a Brechtian attempt to shock the audience into a feeling of alienation and questioning of the social order, as SPK/Revell revealed in a major ReSearch interview (#6/7, April 1982): "I would hope that this whole "Industrial Counterculture" can actually have the ability to actually become a guerrilla movement in some way."
- Full contents:
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- Dokument one
- Dokument II.
- Biography/History:
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SPK was an influential Australian industrial music group formed in Sydney in 1978. They took their name from German radical Marxist revolutionary terrorist group Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK), which encouraged psychiatric patients to "turn illness into a weapon" against capitalist society, although the acronym at various times also stood for Special Programming Korps, System Planning Korporation, Surgical Penis Klinik, Selective Pornography Kontrol, SoliPsiK, and SepPuKu. "Owing to the instability of personalities associated with SPK," the line-up varied, but the main creative force was the New Zealand-born Graeme Revell, who drew on his experiences working as a psychiatric orderly at Callan Park Hospital in Sydney. The group travelled to London in 1980 where they issued their debut album, Information Overload Unit (1981). Dominik Guerin is rumoured to have been responsible for much of SPK's graphics. The group disbanded in 1988.
- Notes:
- A4 sheets folded into A5 format booklets (#2 slightly wider), illustrated with photomontages throughout, printed in black & white and olive (#2), original illustrated paper wrappers, #1 stapled, #2 loose leaves, Xerox and offset.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- SPK (Musical group), issuing body
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2052 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1982
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