Markus Skraba

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The Popular Way

The Popular Way
2025
interactive live performance

The Popular Way is an interactive live performance exploring the topic of democratic backsliding which refers to the gradual erosion of democracy and its institutions, often happening slowly and legally. If you put a frog in boiling water, it will immediately jump out to escape, but if you put it in cool water and slowly heat it up, the frog won't feel the danger and will stay in the water until it boils to death.

A custom web application leads the audience through a speculative storyline set in 2035, where they encounter fictional political scenarios and are asked to vote on different polls. The results of the votes shape the composition in real time by directly altering sound parameters. Can people choose and change the course of transforming democracy, or is the outcome predetermined anyway?

Presented at Aalto Media Lab Demo Day 2025 in Espoo, (FI).