Margareta Ferek-Petrić: Doomscrolling for Future! So good

‘Doomscrolling for Future! So good.’ is a piece that can be understood as a satirical, critical commentary on world events.

The structure of Raphaela Edelbauer’s text can be divided into three clearly superordinate levels: news, advertising and a wide variety of personal, individual posts. The text addresses the fragmentation of consciousness that arises in social media through constant confrontation with information. The resulting overload and oversaturation manifest themselves in the fragmentation of identity and the constant increase in impressions. Social and political hot topics are addressed. The text deliberately works with associations from various subject areas that are recognisable to the recipient. Colourful, sometimes contradictory tones are heard, ranging from reporting to sensationalist chronicles, from apocalypse to banality, and repeatedly interrupted by trivial advertising breaks. Reference is made to the simultaneous existence of banality and ridiculousness in the content conveyed, as well as to the potential for brainwashing.

 

Abstract, creative, expanded sounds of the human voice and clichés ‘borrowed’ from other genres and eras form a contrasting principle and are the basis of the sound dramaturgy. The aim is to use minimal means to highlight the oversaturation and pitfalls of the social media world, to point out the absurdity of the content consumed and to emphasise it with humour. The aim is to create a humorous performance that has an ambivalent effect on the audience, on the one hand featuring comical elements, while on the other hand carrying a deeper, serious meaning that triggers a feeling of unease in the recipient.

(Margareta Ferek-Petrić)