Probelauf : Performative Szenen zum parlamentarischen Betrieb

The Parliament – a mise-en-scène To mark the return of parliamentary business to the renovated Austrian parliament building, this book documents an artistic and photographic examination of parliamentary processes, and of parliament as a stage and a core institution of the democratic system. Employees of the Parliamentary Administration, the ministries, and others tested the various processes according to a script.

In this cooperative project, students from the University of Applied Arts Vienna created numerous works of art in the building that interrogate and reconsider social orders in a performative manner. A cooperative project between the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Austria’s Parliamentary Administration to mark the reopening of parliamentary business after renovation Following on from the publication Temporäre Unordnung (2020), with 782 images from the vacant parliament building With numerous large-format photographs