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

Paul Rucker: Jak moje máma inspirovala můj přístup k cellu

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Multidisciplinární umělec a člen TED Fellows Paul Rucker vyvinul svůj vlastní styl hraní na cello. Vkládá hůlky mezi struny, používá nástroj jako buben a experimentuje s elektronikou. Pohybujíc se mezi zamýšlením nad vlastním příběhem a vystoupením, Rucker se dělí o svou inspiraci - a rozhodně nehraje stále toho stejného Bacha.
- Visual artist, cellist
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(CelloVioloncello musichudba)
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On the flightlet here,
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V letadle cestou sem
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I was remindedpřipomněl about my mommaminka.
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jsem si vzpomněl na svoji maminku.
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I'm a self-taughtsamouk cellistvioloncellista,
I've never had a lessonlekce.
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Na cello jsem se naučil sám,
nikdy jsem neměl učitele.
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I studiedstudoval doubledvojnásobek bassbaskytara, but I just
pickedvybral up the cellovioloncello and startedzačal playinghraní
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Studoval jsem kontrabas,
ale jednou jsem vzal cello
a začal na něj hrát.
Protože to miluju.
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because I love doing it.
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But my mommaminka was an inspirationinspirace to me.
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Moje máma mi byla inspirací.
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I did not realizerealizovat she was an inspirationinspirace,
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Neuvědomil jsem si, že byla inspirací,
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because she got her musichudba degreestupeň
throughpřes a mail-orderpoštovní zakázka coursechod,
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protože ona svůj hudební titul získala
přes poštovní kurz
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the US SchoolŠkola of MusicHudba.
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z US School of Music.
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While raisingzvedání two kidsděti,
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Zatímco vychovávala dvě děti,
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she receivedobdržel a lessonlekce a weektýden in the mailpošta,
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přišla jí každý týden poštou lekce
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and practicedpraktikuje.
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a ona cvičila.
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And at the endkonec of a couplepár of yearsroky,
she put on a recitalBod odůvodnění.
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Na závěr po letech uspořádala recitál.
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And I'll be 50 this monthMěsíc,
and it tookvzal me that long to realizerealizovat
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Tento měsíc mi bude 50 a
tak dlouho mi trvalo si uvědomit,
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that she was that bigvelký of an inspirationinspirace.
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že pro mě byla obrovskou inspirací.
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I'm just going to keep --
yeah, thanksdík, mommaminka.
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Prostě to řeknu: Jo, díky, mami.
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(ApplausePotlesk)
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She's alsotaké one of the mostvětšina
extraordinarymimořádný people I know,
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Nad rámec toho, že je úžasná umělkyně,
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beyondmimo beingbytost a wonderfulBáječné musicianhudebník.
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je taky jeden z nejvýjimečnějších lidí,
které znám.
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I want to playhrát si a little bitbit for mommaminka
and your momsmaminky as well, actuallyvlastně.
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Teď zahraji trochu pro svou mámu
a vlastně i pro vaše mámy.
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(CelloVioloncello musichudba)
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(cello hraje)
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You know, when you normallynormálně
hearslyšet a cellovioloncello, you think of this.
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Víte, když obvykle slyšíte o cellu,
napadne vás tohle:
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(PlaysDivadelní hry BachBach CelloVioloncello SuiteSuite No.1)
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(hraje Bachovu Cello Suite No.1)
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We're not going to do that todaydnes.
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Tohle ale dneska dělat nebudeme.
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(LaughterSmích and applausepotlesk)
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(smích a potlesk)
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(DrumsBicí)
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(bubnuje o cello)
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(CelloVioloncello)
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(cello hraje)
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Hey!
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Hej!
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(LoopedSmyčce samplesVzorky of onstagena scénu soundszvuky)
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(hraje smyčka zvuků, které nahrává)
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(CelloVioloncello musichudba and loopedsmyčkou samplesVzorky)
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(hraje cello a smyčka nahraných zvuků)
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(ApplausePotlesk and cheersZdravím)
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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