WIENER FESTWOCHEN: Box of Truth

WIENER FESTWOCHEN
Box of Truth

Fri 14.06., 17h l MQ Forecourt, free admission
 

The Box of Truth is a glass container in the courtyard of Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier. It contains two chairs and a lie detector. Every Vienna Trial weekend will start with two public figures being attached to the lie detector and subjected to a public hearing by actor Bibiana Beglau. The thirty-minute sessions will examine particular moral and political constellations that lie behind the scandals of the Vienna Trials. Setting out from life stories, experiences and decisions taken by the prominent participants, the Box of Truth will become a place of political contradictions and ethical dilemmas.

About the Box of Truth – Attacks on Democracy:
Shortly before the European elections, all poll results point to a progressive trend towards right-wing parties. Weekly polls currently appear to place the FPÖ (the Austrian Freedom Party) in the clear lead for national parliamentary elections. Is this party ‘against the system’, which plays on Nazi fantasies of a ‘people's chancellor’, an expression of an endangered, weakened democracy? Is the FPÖ, which styles itself the guardian of anti-corruption measures and security in a fortress Austria, not in itself corrupt and a security risk, as demonstrated by many scandals from Ibiza to questionable Russian connections?

Cemetry of the Republic
Outside the Box of Truth performance, the glass container in front of the MQ will be transformed into the Cemetery of the Republic by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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