Creative Acts

using these alias that you mention above sounds interesting. Doing this enables you too work as a collective under one name, even if you dont know the rest of the collective... :)

I was thinking a bit lately around names and identity too...

I was reading a text by yoko ono which encourages you to change your name after your age, your mood and your dress. I am in general trying to come up with opportunities to escape identity, but it seems impossible. Having no identity, means having an identity. To change your name on a daily, hourly or random basis will for sure mess up your surroundings and maybe your mind too. I am not sure what you will gain by doing this but it is a nice experiment. Maybe I will try it. :)

This kind of thoughts led me to passports and official papers. If we all change our name to the same name, it will sooner or later fuck up the system. But I suppose the system will then fast be replaced by another system. In Sweden for example your personal identification number (personal number) is more important than your actual name. Living in Sweden no one ever had problems with me spelling my name different at different places, but living in Germany it is important all of a sudden. The past two years I barely used my personal number at all, when in Sweden I hardly can rent a video without giving them my code. My personal number says a lot more than my name. It reveals my birth date, what town or hospital I was born, and what gender I have. In addition to that my current address is registered with my code, my bank card is linked to it, my library card and my doctor. I can even apply for university studies by filling in my personal number on a website. Then they automatically send me a log in number to my home address (which they know from the number only) and I can log in at their page. Doing this they already know who I am and have my previous grades stored under my personal number. It is very easy, customer friendly and systematized, but it makes me paranoid...