Alter Ego performance in the net

There is a nice performance going on 5.5.-1.6.:

Alter ego is a durational online performance to be seen in May during four weeks in these web pages. Performance artist Leena Kela will spend that time in the character of her alter ego Elena Elak. Elena has her own apartment, where she has her own furniture, objects, clothes and the every day routines. She has her own life.

Elena’s life will become half public, since her apartment is equipped with four surveillance cameras, through which the audience can watch Elena’s life in real time. Every day at 6pm she will have a different visitor, who will either talk with her for example about politics or philosophy or teach her new skills as baking, meditation, tap dancing or singing. Through these encounters Elena will widen her social network, learn new skills and at the same time her personality is shaped by these meetings.

Elena’s Facebook profile and her phone number are also public (see the link ‘Elena Elak’). So if the spectator wants, she or he can talk with Elena, who might also meet some of the people she’s been in touch with. Elena will start her own life, which in all of its privacy is public at the same time. For the time of the performance Leena Kela will detach herself from her own social and everyday life, she won’t meet her family or friends and won’t answer her phone or emails. In a sense she doesn’t exist anymore, but her characters will change into Elena’s, who has completely own social networks.