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

保罗·拉克: 家母如何启发我接触大提琴

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多学科艺术家和TED研究会员保罗 · 拉克形成了自己的大提琴风格;他把筷子放在琴弦之间,把大提琴当成鼓,拿电子器材(如环形踏板 )来做实验。他忽而说着发人深省的故事,忽而演奏,分享着他的灵感来源,演奏当然也十分新颖。
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(Cello大提琴 music音乐)
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On the flight飞行 here,
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在来这里的航班上,
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I was reminded提醒 about my mom妈妈.
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我想起了我的母亲。
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I'm a self-taught自学成才 cellist大提琴家,
I've never had a lesson.
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我是自学的大提琴手,
从来没受过专业训练。
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I studied研究 double bass低音, but I just
picked采摘的 up the cello大提琴 and started开始 playing播放
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我学过低音提琴,但我
更喜欢拿起大提琴演奏,
因为我更钟爱大提琴。
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because I love doing it.
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不过我的母亲也鼓舞了我。
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But my mom妈妈 was an inspiration灵感 to me.
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但我一开始并未意识到这一点,
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I did not realize实现 she was an inspiration灵感,
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因为我母亲是通过邮购
美国音乐学院的课程
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because she got her music音乐 degree
through通过 a mail-order邮购 course课程,
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来获得音乐学位的。
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the US School学校 of Music音乐.
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While raising提高 two kids孩子,
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在抚养两个孩子的同时,
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she received收到 a lesson a week in the mail邮件,
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她通过邮箱每周上一次课,
然后加以练习。
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and practiced.
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And at the end结束 of a couple一对 of years年份,
she put on a recital演奏.
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几年之后,她举办了自己的独奏会。
这个月我就满50岁了,
我花了很久才意识到,
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And I'll be 50 this month,
and it took me that long to realize实现
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that she was that big of an inspiration灵感.
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她是我的灵感和动力的源泉。
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I'm just going to keep --
yeah, thanks谢谢, mom妈妈.
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我会一直——谢谢你,妈妈。
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(Applause掌声)
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She's also one of the most
extraordinary非凡 people I know,
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除了杰出音乐家的身份之外,
我母亲也是我所认识的
最不平凡的人之一。
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beyond being存在 a wonderful精彩 musician音乐家.
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I want to play a little bit for mom妈妈
and your moms妈妈 as well, actually其实.
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我想为我母亲,
也为各位的母亲们演奏一段。
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(Cello大提琴 music音乐)
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You know, when you normally一般
hear a cello大提琴, you think of this.
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通常当你听到大提琴的时候,
你会想到这个。
(演奏巴赫大提琴组曲1号)
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(Plays播放 Bach过独身生活 Cello大提琴 Suite套房 No.1)
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We're not going to do that today今天.
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我们今天不弹这个。
(笑声与掌声)
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(Laughter笑声 and applause掌声)
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(Drums)
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(鼓声)
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(Cello大提琴)
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(大提琴声)
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Hey!
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嘿!
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(Looped samples样本 of onstage在舞台上 sounds声音)
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(舞台声音的环形样本 )
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(Cello大提琴 music音乐 and looped samples样本)
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(大提琴音乐与环形样本 )
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(Applause掌声 and cheers干杯)
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(掌声与欢呼)
Translated by february Z

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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