Among the many works of Barbara Rosenthal – an American avant-garde artist, writer and performer (b. 1948) who sometimes goes by the name of Homo Futurus or Cassandra-on-the-Hudson – is a slim text called “The Allan Project”. This was published 22 years ago as a second part to a longer work called ‘Names/Lives’. In a preface to the 11-pages of “The Allan Project”, Rosenthal explains that in the early 1990s, she began to notice that there were
This is fun, but for sheer entertainment value I think I prefer the contemporaneous adventures of comedian Dave Gorman who, after a drunken bet, hunted down people sharing his own name (including two women who changed their name by deed poll), which became the stage show "Are You Dave Gorman?" (broadcast by BBC as "The Dave Gorman Collection" in 2001).
yes I like that one too. notable that the hunted name needs to have a particular unglamorous quality for the project to be interesting -- allan is good, as is dave, as would be keith or derek or perhaps stuart.
This is fun, but for sheer entertainment value I think I prefer the contemporaneous adventures of comedian Dave Gorman who, after a drunken bet, hunted down people sharing his own name (including two women who changed their name by deed poll), which became the stage show "Are You Dave Gorman?" (broadcast by BBC as "The Dave Gorman Collection" in 2001).
Mike
yes I like that one too. notable that the hunted name needs to have a particular unglamorous quality for the project to be interesting -- allan is good, as is dave, as would be keith or derek or perhaps stuart.