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HISTORY The name was coined in 1978 by the critic, prankster and Mail Artist David Zack as a Nom De Plume for the Latvian -born poet and singer Maris Kundzins . It further alludes to:
Zack called upon his correspondents to adopt the name Monty Cantsin. His suggestion was taken up in 1979 by the Hungarian-Canadian performance artist Istvan Kantor who amalgamated the name into Neoism . As the shared identity of all Neoists , Monty Cantsin was transformed from a "pop star" to a radical identity experiment occupying the everyday life of Neoists and culminating in frequently extremist ways at Neoist Apartment Festivals ("APTs"). The open "pop star" concept lived on in a series of Electropop and Industrial Music albums and performances of, mainly, Istvan Kantor . INFLUENCES Later multiple names like Karen Eliot and Luther Blissett drew inspiration from Monty Cantsin and Neoism , but intentionally avoided association with physical persons, being conceived either as mere signatures (Eliot), collective media phantoms (Blissett) or multiple single collective experiments. |
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