Asim Butt is a multiple identity, a nom de plume that anyone is welcome to use for activist and artistic endeavour. Other multiple identities in use include Luther Blissett, Monty Cantsin, Karen Eliot and Michael K. These multiple names were developed and popularized in artistic subcultures of the 1970s to 1990 like Mail Art, Neoism and post-situationist discourse, with the pseudonym Rrose S�lavy jointly used by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp and the surrealist poet Robert Desnos forming a historical pretext. The first notable Luther Blissett is the footballer. ... Monty Cantsin is a multiple identity that anyone can adopt, but has close ties to Neoism. ... Karen Eliot is a multiple identity, a nom de plume that anyone is welcome to use for activist and artistic endeavour. ... Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. ... Street action at the 6th Neoist Apartment Festival in Montreal, 1983 Neoism refers both to a specific subcultural network of artistic performance and media experimentalists and more generally to a practical underground philosophy. ... Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design. ... Marcel Duchamp (July 28, 1887 – October 2, 1968) was a French/American artist. ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious. ... Robert Desnos (July 4, 1900 - June 8, 1945) was a French surrealist poet. ...

Asim Butt, the multiple identity is named after the cricketer Asim Butt who used to play for Scotland amongst other teams and was banned in 2005 for taking the drug Ecstacy. Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country in northwest Europe, occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain. ... ecstasy (drug) and religious ecstasy Ecstasy, from the Greek ekstasis, to be outside oneself, is a category of trance or trancelike states in which an individual transcends ordinary consciousness and as a result has a heightened capacity for exceptional thought or experience. ...

Butt, the cricketer, is known to be aware of people taking his name but reports differ widely in saying whether he likes the attention he receives because of them. Some reports have said he is flattered by the attention, others claim he is very upset about it.