Karen Eliot

Karen Eliot, also Karen Elliot is occupied by various artists, collective pseudonym. The author Stewart Home suggested the name in 1985 before. It should be taken up by various " cultural workers ", to create a body of work that Karen Eliot. Since then, hundreds of authors and artists who used the pseudonym.

This work should be allocated to any single person. According to the inventor, " you have no family, no parents, no birth " when Karen Eliot is. The own past is only from what others have created as Karen Eliot. In 1989, the pseudonym for the Neoists was widespread, then used between 1990 and 1993 almost exclusively followers of this direction Karen Eliot, especially in order to propagate the Art Strike. Eliot was the female counterpart of Monty Cantsin, who played a similar role for the Neoists. Home, the inventor of Eliot was previously already occurred as Cantsin, and saw a similar role for Eliot ago. While Cantsin but should embody a real person and also appeared personally, Eliot was always disembodied. As the identification Cantsins started with some real people, Eliot could take on the role as multiple personality over time. Simultaneously with the invention of Eliot gave Home also known that anyone could give out the art journal SMILE he founded.

From Cantsin and Eliot turn the pseudonym Luther Blissett developed. Using it worked similar to Eliot, but Blissett was not connected so much an artistic direction and should be as open to use.

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