Paul Rucker: The symbols of systemic racism -- and how to take away their power
ポール・ラッカー: 社会全体に及ぶ人種差別を象徴するものを無力化する方法
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. Full bio
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to mark slaves as property.
それからー
that attended these lynchings,
that portray black people as criminals
黒人を犯罪者として もしくはー
ある物をお持ちしました
烙印こてです
焼印するのに使われました
when they were marked.
were going to be slaves
my imagination when I was younger
クラン・ローブです
Ku Klux Klan rallies occasionally,
KKKの集会を時折ー
よく見ました
never really left my mind.
with that imagery until 25 years later.
どうすることもできませんでした
I started researching the Klan,
KKKの研究をし始め
had more than five million active members,
500万人以上に達し
of the population at the time,
すなわちー
of New York City at the time.
相当するほどの数です
neighborhood of Georgia was so busy
彼らの衣装製造工場は大忙しで
to keep up with orders.
24時間体制で稼働し
to keep up with the demand.
and as an artist,
to be part of my collection,
クラン・ローブを加えたくなりました
and objects tell stories,
様々なことを語りかけてくるからです
that was really good quality.
見つけることができませんでした
上質なクラン・ローブを探して
Klan robe that he's looking for?
the best quality Klan robes in America.
作ることにしました
you would see at any KKK rally.
このような衣装を着たメンバーはいません
satins and different patterns.
シルクにサテン布 様々な柄
I make them for young kids
the Klan had in place
a hundred years ago
あり続けていることに気づきました
neighborhoods, workplaces,
人種差別を行ってきましたがー
that are keeping these policies in place.
そうしてきたわけではないのです
the long-term impact of slavery.
影響に関する研究です
with the residue of systemic racism.
単なる残留物についてではありません
of every single thing we do.
基礎にあるものです
segregated neighborhoods,
人種差別を行ってきました
of minorities incarcerated.
不当な割合で投獄されます
We have police brutality.
警察の残虐性も
you're being discriminated against.
証明できるとは限りません
in America is slavery.
奴隷制度であり
資本主義における資本だったのです
Nathan Bedford Forrest,
ネイサン・べドフォード・フォレストは
and a millionaire slave trader.
奴隷貿易で巨万の富を得た人物でした
from chattel slavery --
驚かされます
would boggle the mind.
奴隷たちなのです
equalled 200 million dollars.
綿の売り上げは当時２億ドル
five billion dollars today.
through generational wealth.
今日の世代まで受け継がれています
忘れていました
for the entire year.
１週間に１つのローブを作りました
ひらめいたのです
that white supremacy is there,
of white supremacy is not the KKK,
over me at all.
なんの力もありませんでした
クラン・ローブを見て
are part of our history,
no more power over us.
至る道を見つけられます
and acknowledge
of who we are as a country,
縫いこまれていると認めることができれば
about the intentional segregation
neighborhoods and workplaces.
何か行動を起こすことができるかもしれません
can we actually address
それが出来て初めて
取り壊すことができるのです
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Paul Rucker - Visual artist, cellistPaul 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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