Jacques Derrida was, remarkably, another of the mistaken identities of the neoist artist Karen Eliot -- whose faceless art effaces the authorial propriety and lust for originality pervasive in contemporary art.
Karen Eliot is the artist and neoist who started the Art Strike of the early 1990s (though credit for same was quickly falsely usurped by a person going by the name of Jacques Derrida).
Karen Eliot was born in 1951 in New York City, though one of her biographers ('kareneliot') claimed that she was born the daughter of scientists in a remote research station in Akademgorod, Siberia. There is very little evidence for this claim, but when asked about this rumor in an interview in 1996, Karen Eliot whispered, "What would you count as evidence? What is the theory that guides your birth? Where was I born presumes that I am who I am, that there ever was some me there who could be born. And the falsification of this birth presumes furthermore that there would be something there to falsify, or to steal, to rob me of, for instance, my age, or my name, or my face. But I have already given these things up, I have already come back from having an identity."
Artists and others worldwide have assumed the name "Karen Eliot" for various projects, some assuming the name for years on end, some using it temporarily for certain activities. It is difficult to put a number to how many "Karen Eliot"s are practicing worldwide, though there were probably around fifty or so active in the mail art network of the 1980s. In comparison, there was only ever one Pablo Picasso and only two Andy Warhols.
In 1983, she attempted to falsify her own suicide (though few call it a 'suicide') in Dallas. This was in response to her misappropriation in the University, the Museum, the Catalog, and elsewhere. (The event was also an explicit reference to conceptual artist Christopher Burden's 1971 performance piece "Shoot" in which he had a friend shoot him in the arm.) In the performance, Eliot stunned the spectators by being shot in the chest. Her left lung was pierced by the bullet, just as Andy Warhol's had been. Eliot survived the injury but left the public eye entirely, preferring to spend time writing deconstructionst texts and pornography in a remote cabin in Wyoming.
After living in near-seclusion for years, Eliot resurfaced in 1990 to declare an Art Strike and to designate the years 1990-1994 "The Years Without Art." The stated purpose of the strike was to use the absence of art to draw attention to how neccesary art truly is in society as well as to put gallery owners out of business. Apparently neither goal was particularly realised, though the strike did offer an opportunity for those artists who participated to discover other means of self-expression and self-discovery than through creation of art. Among these was the painter Jacques Derrida, who is now a famous philosopher on the outskirts of Paris.
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