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