Artists use sketchbooks to collect their ideas and thoughts for future creative realizations. Ideally, their attentive perception and examination of the world will result in new perspectives that lead to new solutions. Or to new questions.

And that's what you expect from a think tank like Agenda Austria, which accompanies Austria's social, political and economic reality in a critical and constructive manner. So it makes sense to open up to art and its proverbial freedom and to have the annual activity report accompanied and commented on by an artist.

Rosebud provided the concept, which was developed in close collaboration with Aldo Giannotti, the editorial design and the coordination of the print production.

Aldo Giannotti, born in Genoa and living in Vienna for many years, uses a wide variety of forms of expression such as drawing, photography, video, performance and installation for his mostly site-specific works.
With his minimalist, sketchy drawings, he explores and questions common social and political concepts. By transforming the space into a system full of meanings, he challenges the viewer – for example by giving playful instructions – to deal with their environment, their social »infrastructure«. And suddenly the supposedly most natural social habits and circumstances are in question.