Anahita Razmi
TUTTI
A Score for 19 Vloggers
Words by
Viktor Orbán
Mohamed Morsi
Angela Merkel
Kim Jong Un
Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei
Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
Vladimir Putin
Winston Churchill
Benigno S. Aquino III
Hugo Chávez Frías
George W. Bush
Erich Honecker
P.W. Botha
Published by
Kunststiftung Erich Hauser
Edition Taube
Printed in Germany
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o, what could be the conclusion?
All major systems need to be deeply
restructured. We should encourage even
families and communities to change their
life strategies. It has to be realized whether
we like it or not: the illusion of a society
based on entitlements and unaffordable
social expenditures is over. All right,
this sounds brutal. And this leads to
the essential question: will the European
political elite be brave enough to be
honest and to tell the people about this?
And here we have arrived at the necessity
of traditional values, because we could
consider honesty as a traditional value.
Without honesty not only are we going
to be unable to overcome the crisis,
but we will hardly be in a position
to raise the adequate questions either.
All in all, long live honesty.
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rothers and sisters, if the road before
us is still long, and the challenges
are still getting bigger, our collective will
should be bigger and our determination
should be stronger, Insha’Allah, we
will manage to realize our goals and
aspirations for the good and welfare
of our peoples.
adies and gentlemen, I don’t ever
want to leave this house. I am
convinced that there is no better place
for us to live than in our shared European
home! We are now in the process of
fitting it out. We are extending it. We
are renovating parts of it. Sometimes
I think we are so busy extending and
renovating the building to allow almost
half a billion Europeans to make their
home there, that we could easily overlook
its greatness and uniqueness in the midst
of all the construction work. Then we are
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hardly able to see what is special about
the building and what is at its heart.
dynamic mass-based drive for
increasing livestock production
should be waged. Collective livestock
farming at cooperative farms and private
livestock farming at rural households
should be developed. These types of
livestock farming hold no small share
in the country’s livestock production.
To develop these types of livestock
farming is a major way for increasing
livestock production without large
investment from the state. All
cooperative farms should build up their
stockbreeding workteams and animalfattening subworkteams and ensure
profitability of their operation. It is
important to give them assignments
for the production of the young
and meat and make them fulfil these
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assignments without fail. Private
livestock farming at rural households
should be encouraged. Every house
teeming with domestic animals adds
to the socialist rural scenery. Rural
households should be encouraged to
raise large numbers of pigs, goats, rabbits,
chicken and other kinds of domestic
animals so as to augment their income
and enrich their lives. Livestock farming
should be undertaken at all units.
f course, it goes without saying
that justice cannot be administered
in the absence of spirituality and
rationality. I have stressed this point
in the past as well. In the absence of
spirituality, justice turns into hypocrisy.
In addition, rationality is a necessity
for the administration of justice, because
in the absence of rationality genuine
justice may be replaced with what is only
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so-called justice. Therefore, rationality
and spirituality are both a prerequisite
for the administration of justice. Progress
would lose its meaning in the absence
of justice, as would justice in the absence
of progress. Justice and progress must
go hand in hand. If we are to turn into
a model for other Islamic countries, the
promotion of justice and progress must
be our lofty aspiration and it must be
of central concern. The twenty-year
strategic plan would provide us with
the necessary direction. The strategic
plan must not be disregarded.
rothers and Sisters! I have
intentionally avoided going into
details of the problems we are facing
today. I will take the nation into
confidence soon and present the salient
features of the promising future which
I foresee. Today, I want to tell you that
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despite some difficulties, we are hopeful
for a better and prosperous future. The
leadership is united. We have enough
to build our country and Insha’Allah
we will come out of the difficult situation
as we have the necessary wherewithal
for the new journey. God be our saviour
and guide!
et me say in this respect that I will
also not let you down and will speak
directly and frankly. Some of what I say
might seem a bit too harsh, but if we
do not speak directly and honestly
about what we really think, then there
is little point in even meeting in this way.
It would be better in that case
just to keep to diplomatic get-togethers,
where no one says anything of real sense
and, recalling the words of one famous
diplomat, you realise that diplomats have
tongues so as not to speak the truth. We
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get together for other reasons. We get
together so as to talk frankly with each
other. We need to be direct and blunt
today not so as to trade barbs, but so as
to attempt to get to the bottom of what
is actually happening in the world, try
to understand why the world is becoming
less safe and more unpredictable, and
why the risks are increasing everywhere
around us. Today’s discussion took place
under the theme: New Rules or a Game
without Rules. I think that this formula
accurately describes the historic turning
point we have reached today and the
choice we all face.
e shall go on to the end, we
shall fight in France, we shall
fight on the seas and oceans, we shall
fight with growing confidence and
growing strength in the air, we shall
defend our Island, whatever the cost
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may be, we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds, we
shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never
surrender, and even if, which I do not for
a moment believe, this Island or a large
part of it were subjugated and starving,
then our Empire beyond the seas, armed
and guarded by the British Fleet, would
carry on the struggle, until, in God’s
good time, the New World, with all its
power and might, steps forth to the
rescue and the liberation of the old.
or example, the coconut sector.
According to research conducted in
2009, coconut farmers make up one of
the poorest sectors in the country. Let us
look at the process of growing coconuts:
Once planted, farmers wait seven years
for the coconut tree to bear fruit; but
after this, two generations will be able
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to benefit without doing anything
else apart from harvesting the fruit.
We have the potential to vastly increase
the income of this sector if we can
foster a culture that truly encourages
hard work and productivity.
e need to plant ideological
trees all over the world. Against
the attempts to uproot ideologies and
love, we need to refill the world with
love,with new and old ideas. The desert
is also related to this. A desert of values,
a desert of love, a desert of principles.
These deserts are more dangerous than
the geographical ones.
nd we have a great opportunity
during this time of war to lead the
world toward the values that will bring
lasting peace. All fathers and mothers,
in all societies, want their children to be
educated and live free from poverty and
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violence. No people on Earth yearn
to be oppressed or aspire to servitude
or eagerly await the midnight knock of
the secret police. If anyone doubts this,
let them look to Afghanistan, where
the Islamic ‘street’ greeted the fall of
tyranny with song and celebration. Let
the skeptics look to Islam’s own rich
history, with its centuries of learning
and tolerance and progress. America
will lead by defending liberty and justice
because they are right and true and
unchanging for all people everywhere.
he situation in the world today is
complex and dangerous, though
not unalterable. Everything depends on
the united and resolute actions of those
who sincerely want peace. The Soviet
Union and the other countries of the
socialist community have time and
again proved their roles as the strongest
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and most influential bulwark in this
struggle. People in this country are
well aware of the fact that the best
way to serve the safeguarding of peace
is to further strengthen the GDR in
every possible way, thus contributing
to the consolidation of socialism’s
international positions. This attitude
has typified the run-up period towards
the GDR’s 35th anniversary and will
be the guiding motive of future efforts.
The peoples of the world can always
count on the first socialist workers’
and farmers’ state on German soil in
the struggle for secure peace, for the
strengthening of socialism, for progress
and a happy life.
have applied much self-discipline
during the past weeks and months.
I have been lenient and patient. Don’t
push us too far in your own interests,
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I tell them. Reform through a process
of negotiation is not weakness. Talking,
consulting, bargaining with all our
peoples’ leaders is not weakness. Mutual
acceptance of and joint responsibility
for the welfare and stability of our
country is not weakness. It is our
strength. Our strength is the courage
to face and accommodate the problems
bequeathed to us by history. The
reality of our diversity is a hard reality.
We face it, because it is there. How do
we accommodate it? How do we build
a better future out of cultures, values,
languages which are demonstrably real
in our heterogeneous society? We are
resolved, we are committed, to do so
in two fundamental ways. Firstly – by
letting the people speak. By letting the
people speak through their leaders.
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TUTTI
19 YouTube Vloggers reading excerpts from 13 political speeches.
The video readings are put together into a timed choir on 19 monitors,
which are arranged in the exhibition space.
tutti (it.), literally meaning ‘all’ or ‘together’. Used as a musical term,
for the whole orchestra as opposed to the soloist. Applied similarly
to choral music, where the whole section or choir is called to sing.
This book has been published on the occasion of the award of the
Werkstattpreis, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser to Anahita Razmi and
the exhibition TUTTI, 2 October – 1 November 2015
Publisher: Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil
and Edition Taube, München
Exhibition and book: Anahita Razmi
Curator: Heiderose Langer
Secretariat: Karin Müller
Catalogue Design: Constanze Hein and Jan Blessing
Photographs: Stills from TUTTI, video installation
on 19 + 1 screens, 2015
Special thanks
Executive Board: Wilhelm Rieber – Spokesman of the Board;
Herbert Wagner – Vice Spokesman of the Board
Foundation Board: Wilhelm Freiherr von Haller – Chairman; Professor Dr
Hanns-Peter Knaebel – Vice Chairman; Jürgen Knubben – Vice Chairman;
Mayor Ralf Broß, Dr Andrea Hauser, Professor Ottmar Hörl, Dr Herbert
Köhler, Professor Dr Robert Kudielka, Matthias Marquardt, Matthäus
Reiser, Günter Ritzi, Marco Schaffert M.A., Dr Harry Schlichtenmaier,
Dipl.-Ing. Siegfried Weishaupt; Dr Heiderose Langer – Managing director
Anahita Razmi thanks Heiderose Langer, Constanze Hein, Jan Blessing,
Edition Taube, Radio Häring / Karl-Theo Häring, Annemarie Podmenik,
Laura Welker, Carrie Roseland, Christian Malycha, Cornelis Knuth and
all participating Vloggers.
We would like to extend our sincere thanks for supporting the exhibition
and the book to Förderverein der Kunststiftung Erich Hauser e.V.
© 2015 Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil
Saline 36, 78628 Rottweil
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ISBN 978-3-945900-03-1
Excerpts
Vloggers
1 . Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary, 2010 – present
‘The Role of Traditional Values in Europe’s Future’
Chatham House, London, 9 October 2013 ,
Katie Bryson
youtube.com/channel/UCnAs1gQcwtm-A7w8 yEcZyCg
2 . Mohamed Morsi
President of the Arab Republic of Egypt from 2012 – 2013
Speech at the Inaugural Sitting of the 19 th Ordinary Session
of the African Union’s Summit, 15 July 2012
3 . Angela Merkel
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2005 – present
Speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, 17 January 2007
4 . Kim Jong Un
Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic
of North Korea, 2011 – present
‘Guidelines Set Forth to Develop Nation’s Animal Husbandry’,
28 January 2015
5 . Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1989 – present
Speech to Elites, 26 August 2008
6 . Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 2013 – present
Address on Independence Day of Pakistan, 14 August 2013
7. Vladimir Putin
President of Russia, 2012 – present
‘The World Order – New Rules or a Game Without Rules?’
Vaidai International Discussion Club, Russia, 27 October 2014
8 . Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1940 – 1945 and 1951 – 1955
‘We Shall Fight on the Beaches’, Speech to the House of Commons
of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 4 June 1940
9. Benigno S. Aquino III
President of the Philippines, 2010 – present
State of the Nation Address, Batasang Pambansa Complex,
Quezon City, 22 July 2013
10. Hugo Chávez Frías
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 1999 – 2013
Speech during the 6th Session of the UNCDD Havana,
1 September 2003
11 . George W. Bush
President of the United States of America, 2001 – 2009
The State of the Union Address, 29 January 2002
12 . Erich Honecker
General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party,
German Democratic Republic, 1971 – 1989
‘The GDR: A State of Peace and Socialism’, 1984
13 . P. W. Botha
Prime Minister 1978 – 1984 and the first executive State
President 1984 – 1989 of the Republic of South Africa
The ‘Rubicon Speech’, Opening of the National Party
Natal Congress Durban, South Africa, 15 August 1985
Nariah Ardour
youtube.com/channel/UCRko55 sRtggUoF9zD2WQy3 Q
Naader Reda
youtube.com/FreakEating
ThatBoySab
youtube.com/channel/UC1x-q7 LCaDOop0 CxuShzZHQ
Logan Kinnaird
youtube.com/LOGinHDi
Jared Koons
youtube.com/jaredkoons
Omar Oualili
youtube.com/omarinacitynearyou
Isabella Ricci, The Vlog Therapy Project
youtube.com/channel/UC6 UBDyTfmoNKuWrqN8TkdWw
Maggie Moon Tarot
youtube.com/channel/UCwYOVPOX9 v1 Sxf4 m2dXCczg
Dr Q Moayad
youtube.com/QMoayad
Elizabeth Carraro
youtube.com/lizzycantunes
Karim Belal
youtube.com/c/Karimchii
Sinmi Adekola, Sinmis Beautique
youtube.com/channel/UCh4Wl1 FwjmPSjoDH27 b0 oRQ
Lawrence Sebastian
youtube.com/channel/UCgDfMJ4 OY6 LXTo6 w5ZQoanA
Dominique G. Ringland, Peptalkempowerment
youtube.com/channel/UC7 PdzHKjLKyqeb9 -1 CwPT3A
Carlee A. Myers, apopfitness
youtube.com/channel/UCNg8 baV4T_qyvmyXRWyMk_A
Pilar Tisker
youtube.com/pilarsway
Megan Toenyes
youtube.com/mtoenyes
Soraya Beheshti
youtube.com/channel/UC4 pIPYxp6 jqxivcHZUAUGkw/