My concept for my part of the project was to create a collage of news reports that were absurd. For this I tuned to the current news and started to observe and analyze it’s content. Two main things impressed me about the news. The first one was how normalized tragic news are, they where so frequent and people didn’t seem to react about them. The second was about the abundant negativity in every news, almost every article had a negative outcome, no matter what the category. This inspired me to include among absurd news, normalized tragedies and negative news. With this creating a parody of modern news and trying to expose its absurd nature.

I started my piece with a report about African refugees crossing the mediterranean for life opportunities in Europe. Then this report faded away into reverb followed by my first absurd news. The second report was about a group of youths asking for social media followers in a court case prosecuted against them. Both news juxtaposed very extremely and that was just my objective. Later on I continued juxtaposing extreme news with really absurd ones, even sampling news from cartoons to combine reality with fiction, trying to make the piece somehow surreal. At the end I included some news of Mexico, to make the piece more intimate with myself. I ended the composition with news about the horrible insecurity problems of Mexico, juxtaposing them with gossip news about the Mexican celebrities. I wanted to expose how modern news give more importance to superficial news for example celebrities having kids, instead of national problems.