- Karen Eliot
Karen Eliot is a multiple identity, a
nom de plume , ormultiple-use name that anyone is welcome to use foractivist andart istic endeavours. It is especially popular within theNeoist movement. It was developed in order to counter the male domination of that movement, the most predominant multiple user-names beingMonty Cantsin andLuther Blissett . These multiple names were developed and popularized in artisticsubculture s of the 1970s to 1990 likeMail Art ,Neoism and post-Situationist discourse, with the pseudonymRrose Sélavy jointly used by Dada artistMarcel Duchamp and the surrealist poetRobert Desnos forming a historical pretext. The political references go back much further, egNed Ludd , while in poetry there are precedents such asTaliesin .In the 1960s
underground culture the multiple nameEmmett Grogan was adopted by San Francisco Diggers and in the 1970s the multiple nameWally was adopted by a group ofsquatters in aroundStonehenge .External links
* [http://www.earthlydelights.co.uk/netnews/wally.html Where's Wally] - The origins of the multiple identity Wally in 1970s pop festivals and underground culture.
* [http://www.andrewfox.co.uk/mnk/ Karen Eliot's MNK Investigation] - A fictional revolutionary organisation, theMNK , is investigated by a fictional Karen Eliot.
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