Luther Blissett (5)

Luther Blissett was a multi-use name, an open reputation informally adopted and shared by hundreds of artists and social activists all over Europe since Summer 1994. For reasons that remain unknown, the name was borrowed from a 1980's British soccer player of Afro-Caribbean origins. In Italy, between 1994 and 1999, the so-called Luther Blissett Project (an organized network within the open community sharing the Luther Blissett identity) became an extremely popular phenomenon. In 1999, following the self-dissolution of the Luther Blissett collective, they released The Open Pop Star. In January 2000, some of them regrouped as Wu Ming Contingent.