ALL

ALL was a video-project, dealing with the bilingualism of the Vaasa (Finland). In October 2012 (right at the time of the municipal elections), a video-recording-studio was installed for two weeks in the lobby of the local museum for modern art, Kuntsi. The citizens of Vaasa were asked to participate in the project. When sitting down in front of the camera they would hear a series of questions (in either Finish or Swedish) on headphones, which they were asked to answer. The questions were inspired by the Schengen-immigration-form and the form for the Finish citizenship declaration.
The 27 video- and audio-tracks were over layered to a composite-video.

See the temporary video-recording installation at: http://floriantuercke.net/all.html


political background of the work:

Vaasa (Finland) is a bilingual city. 25% of the citizens are native swedish speaking. In the surrounding region of Ostrobothnia, the rate of swedish-speaking population  is even higher.

In the 2011 parliamentary elections, the True Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset) won 19% of the votes, which made them the third strongest party in the finish parliament. This party is rather nationalistic and populistic. One of their political goals is the Abolition of the obligatory swedish language-education in schools. Amongst other traditionalistic political goals, one is the preference of „traditional art“ to „post-modernistic art“ for state subsidised institutions.