An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate self, which is distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other self, one with a different personality. Artists have long employed themselves as the subjects of their work, whether real or imagined, exploring multiple interior lives and modes of being in the world. An EcoSystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Every factor in an ecosystem depends on each other, either directly or indirectly: a change in an element in an ecosystem will affect the existence of its individual members, and the continuity of the ecosystem itself. For this block, we will look at examples of alter ego and ecosystems to explore the process of discovering alternative versions of ourselves, how to build worlds with them, and to propose approaches to the ongoing dramas of survival or extinction.

This Block will conclude with a performance for Art Palace on Saturday, October 24, at 2:00 PM.