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Karen Eliot is a name that refers to an individual human being who can
be anyone. The name is fixed, the people using it aren't. The purpose of many
different people using the same name is to create a situation for which no one
in particular is responsible and to practically examine western philosophical
notions of identity,
individuality, originality,
value and truth.
Anyone
can become Karen Eliot simply by adopting the name, but they are only Karen
Eliot for the period in which they adopt the name. Karen Eliot was
materialised, rather than born, as an open context in the summer of 1985. When
one becomes Karen Eliot one's previous existence consists of the acts other
people have undertaken using the name. When one becomes Karen Eliot one has non
family, no parents, no birth. Karen Eliot was not born, s/he was materialised
from social forces, constructed as a means of entering the shifting terrain
that circumscribes the 'individual' and society. http://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/eliot_index.html |
