ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paul Rucker - Visual artist, cellist
Paul Rucker creates art that explores issues related to mass incarceration, racially-motivated violence, police brutality and the continuing impact of slavery in the US.

Why you should listen

Paul Rucker is a visual artist, composer, and musician who often combines media, integrating live performance, sound, original compositions and visual art. His work is the product of a rich interactive process, through which he investigates community impacts, human rights issues, historical research and basic human emotions surrounding particular subject matter. Much of his current work focuses on the Prison Industrial Complex and the many issues accompanying incarceration in its relationship to slavery. He has presented performances and visual art exhibitions across the country and has collaborated with educational institutions to address the issue of mass incarceration. Presentations have taken place in schools, active prisons and also inactive prisons such as Alcatraz.

His largest installation to date, REWIND, garnered praise from Baltimore Magazine awarding Rucker "Best Artist 2015." Additionally, REWIND received "Best Solo Show 2015" and "#1 Art Show of 2015" from Baltimore City Paper, reviews by The Huffington Post, Artnet News, Washington Post, The Root and The Real News Network. Rucker has received numerous grants, awards and residencies for visual art and music. He is a 2012 Creative Capital Grantee in visual art as well as a 2014 and 2018 MAP (Multi-Arts Production) Fund Grantee for performance. In 2015 he received a prestigious Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant as well as the Mary Sawyer Baker Award. In 2016 Paul received the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, for which he is the first artist in residence at the new National Museum of African American Culture.

Residencies include MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Ucross Foundation, Art OMI, Banff Centre, Pilchuck Glass School, Rauschenberg Residency, Joan Mitchell Residency, Hemera Artist Retreat, Air Serembe, Creative Alliance and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.  In 2013-2015, he was the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Artist in Residence and Research Fellow at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He was most recently awarded a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2018 TED Fellowship and the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation and Artist Trust. Rucker is an iCubed Visiting Arts Fellow embedded at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Rucker's latest work, Storm in the Time of Shelter, an installation of 52 custom Ku Klux Klan robes and related artifacts, is featured in the exhibition "Declaration," on view at the new Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia through September 9, 2018.

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Paul Rucker: How my mom inspired my approach to the cello

بول راكر: كيف كانت أمّي مصدر إلهامٍ لعزف التشيللو بأسلوبي الخاص

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قام الفنّان متعدّد المواهب وزميل TED، بول راكر، بتطوير أسلوب خاص لعزف التشيللو فنراه يمرّر عصي الأكل بين الأوتار، يستخدم الآلة الموسيقية كالطّبول أو يجرّب العزف بالآلات الإلكترونية مثل دوّاسة الغيتار اللولبيّة. يشارك معنا راكر مصدر إلهامه عبر سرد قصص معبّرة تارة وتقديم أداء موسيقي تارة أخرى...ومن المؤكد أنه لا يتّبع نفس الأسلوب الكلاسيكي للعازف والمؤلف باخ.
- Visual artist, cellist
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(Celloالتشيلو musicموسيقى)
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(عزف التشيللو)
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(Musicموسيقى endsنهايات)
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On the flightطيران here,
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أثناء قدومي إلى هنا،
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I was remindedذكر about my momأمي.
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تذكّرت أمّي.
لم أحضر أبدًا دروسًا لتعلّم عزف التشيللو
بل تمرّنت بمفردي.
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I'm a self-taughtالعصاميين cellistعازف التشيلو,
I've never had a lessonدرس.
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I studiedدرس doubleمزدوج bassصوت عميق, but I just
pickedالتقطت up the celloالتشيلو and startedبدأت playingتلعب
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في البداية تعلمت العزف على الكمان الأجهر
لكن انتهى بي المطاف باختيار التشيللو
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because I love doing it.
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بسبب شغفي الكبير به.
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But my momأمي was an inspirationوحي to me.
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لقد كانت أمّي مصدر إلهام لي،
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I did not realizeأدرك she was an inspirationوحي,
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ولم أدرك ذلك أبدًا،
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because she got her musicموسيقى degreeالدرجة العلمية
throughعبر a mail-orderالبريد النظام courseدورة,
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لأنها حصلت على شهادة الموسيقى
بحضور درس كان يُرسل لها عبر البريد،
من قبل المدرسة الأمريكية للموسيقى.
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the US Schoolمدرسة of Musicموسيقى.
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While raisingمقوي two kidsأطفال,
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أثناء اعتنائها بطفليها،
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she receivedتم الاستلام a lessonدرس a weekأسبوع in the mailبريد,
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كانت تستلم درسًا في الأسبوع عبر البريد،
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and practicedتمارس.
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وتتدرَّب على العزف.
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And at the endالنهاية of a coupleزوجان of yearsسنوات,
she put on a recitalالحيثيه.
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هكذا تمكنت من تقديم أداء موسيقيّ
بعد سنوات معدودة.
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And I'll be 50 this monthشهر,
and it tookأخذ me that long to realizeأدرك
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سيصبح عمري 50 عامًا في هذا الشهر
وقد أمضيت كل تلك المدة لإدراك حقيقة
أن أمي كانت مصدر إلهامي
طوال كل تلك السنين.
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that she was that bigكبير of an inspirationوحي.
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I'm just going to keep --
yeah, thanksشكر, momأمي.
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سأواصل العزف بدون توقف...
أجل، شكرًا أمّي.
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(Applauseتصفيق)
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She's alsoأيضا one of the mostعظم
extraordinaryاستثنائي people I know,
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هي أيضًا من أعظم الأشخاص الذين أعرفهم،
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beyondوراء beingيجرى a wonderfulرائع musicianموسيقي او عازف.
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فضلًا عن كونها موسيقية مُبهرة.
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I want to playلعب a little bitقليلا for momأمي
and your momsالامهات as well, actuallyفعلا.
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أريد أن أعزف قليلًا من أجل أمّي
و كل أمّهاتكم كذلك.
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(Celloالتشيلو musicموسيقى)
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(Musicموسيقى endsنهايات)
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(انتهاء الموسيقى)
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You know, when you normallyبشكل طبيعي
hearسمع a celloالتشيلو, you think of this.
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في العادة عند سماع عزف
التشيللو يخطر على بالكم هذا.
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(Playsيلعب Bachحياة العزاب Celloالتشيلو Suiteجناح No.1)
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(يعزف معزوفة التشيللو رقم 1 للعازف باخ)
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We're not going to do that todayاليوم.
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في الواقع لن نعزف بهذا الشكل اليوم.
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(Laughterضحك and applauseتصفيق)
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(Drumsطبول)
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(Celloالتشيلو)
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Hey!
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أجل!
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(Loopedيحلق samplesعينات of onstageعلى المسرح soundsاصوات)
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(Celloالتشيلو musicموسيقى and loopedيحلق samplesعينات)
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(Musicموسيقى endsنهايات)
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(Applauseتصفيق and cheersفي صحتك)
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(تصفيق وهتاف)
Translated by sheyma Boutar
Reviewed by Fatima Zahra El Hafa

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paul Rucker - Visual artist, cellist
Paul Rucker creates art that explores issues related to mass incarceration, racially-motivated violence, police brutality and the continuing impact of slavery in the US.

Why you should listen

Paul Rucker is a visual artist, composer, and musician who often combines media, integrating live performance, sound, original compositions and visual art. His work is the product of a rich interactive process, through which he investigates community impacts, human rights issues, historical research and basic human emotions surrounding particular subject matter. Much of his current work focuses on the Prison Industrial Complex and the many issues accompanying incarceration in its relationship to slavery. He has presented performances and visual art exhibitions across the country and has collaborated with educational institutions to address the issue of mass incarceration. Presentations have taken place in schools, active prisons and also inactive prisons such as Alcatraz.

His largest installation to date, REWIND, garnered praise from Baltimore Magazine awarding Rucker "Best Artist 2015." Additionally, REWIND received "Best Solo Show 2015" and "#1 Art Show of 2015" from Baltimore City Paper, reviews by The Huffington Post, Artnet News, Washington Post, The Root and The Real News Network. Rucker has received numerous grants, awards and residencies for visual art and music. He is a 2012 Creative Capital Grantee in visual art as well as a 2014 and 2018 MAP (Multi-Arts Production) Fund Grantee for performance. In 2015 he received a prestigious Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant as well as the Mary Sawyer Baker Award. In 2016 Paul received the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, for which he is the first artist in residence at the new National Museum of African American Culture.

Residencies include MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Ucross Foundation, Art OMI, Banff Centre, Pilchuck Glass School, Rauschenberg Residency, Joan Mitchell Residency, Hemera Artist Retreat, Air Serembe, Creative Alliance and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.  In 2013-2015, he was the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Artist in Residence and Research Fellow at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He was most recently awarded a 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2018 TED Fellowship and the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from the Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation and Artist Trust. Rucker is an iCubed Visiting Arts Fellow embedded at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Rucker's latest work, Storm in the Time of Shelter, an installation of 52 custom Ku Klux Klan robes and related artifacts, is featured in the exhibition "Declaration," on view at the new Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia through September 9, 2018.

More profile about the speaker
Paul Rucker | Speaker | TED.com