新SAT阅读必备名人演讲：Raghava KK: Shake up your story
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新SAT必读演讲：Raghava KK: Shake up your story.文中附有翻译讲解，欢迎大家学习。
今日名人
Raghava KK
Raghava KK's paintings and drawings use cartoonish shapes and colors to examine the body, society, our world.
Why you should listen
Raghava KK began his career in art as a newspaper cartoonist, and the cartoonist’s bold line -- and dead-on eye for truth -- still powers his art. His work spans painting, sculpture, installation, film and iPad art, always linked by his challenging opinions on identity, conformity, gender, celebrity, ceremony. (He even views his lavish Indian wedding as a piece of performance art.)
His early work as a painter made a complete break with his cartoon career -- he painted watercolors on canvas using only his hands and feet. Since then, his work has grown to knit together aesthetics from both worlds, as collage and complication play against flat color and precise lines. He shows in galleries and performance spaces around the world and often collaborates with other artists, most recently with musicians Paul Simon and Erykah Badu. In 2011, he launched his children's iPad book, Pop-it, shaking up the concept of an ideal family. He is currently working on a project that promises to shake up everything! From news to education.
新SAT必读演讲英语字幕
00:11
Hi everyone. I'm an artist and a dad -- second time around. Thank you. And I want to share with you my latest art project. It's a children's book for the iPad. It's a little quirky and silly. It's called "Pop-It," And it's about the things little kids do with their parents.
00:31
(Music)
00:33
So this is about potty training -- as most of you, I hope, know. You can tickle the rug. You can make the baby poop. You can do all those fun things. You can burst bubbles. You can draw, as everyone should.
00:54
But you know, I have a problem with children's books: I think they're full of propaganda. At least an Indian trying to get one of these American books in Park Slope, forget it. It's not the way I was brought up. So I said, "I'm going to counter this with my own propaganda." If you notice carefully, it's a homosexual couple bringing up a child. You don't like it? Shake it, and you have a lesbian couple.(Laughter) Shake it, and you have a heterosexual couple. You know, I don't even believe in the concept of an ideal family.
01:25
I have to tell you about my childhood. I went to this very proper Christian school taught by nuns, fathers, brothers, sisters. Basically, I was brought up to be a good Samaritan, and I am. And I'd go at the end of the day to a traditional Hindu house, which was probably the only Hindu house in a predominantly Islamic neighborhood. Basically, I celebrated every religious function. In fact, when there was a wedding in our neighborhood, all of us would paint our houses for the wedding. I remember we cried profusely when the little goats we played with in the summer became biriani. (Laughter) We all had to fast during Ramadan. It was a very beautiful time.
02:06
But I must say, I'll never forget, when I was 13 years old, this happened. Babri Masjid -- one of the most beautiful mosques in India, built by King Babur, I think, in the 16th century -- was demolished by Hindu activists. This caused major riots in my city. And for the first time, I was affected by this communal unrest. My little five-year-old kid neighbor comes running in, and he says, "Rags, Rags. You know the Hindus are killing us Muslims. Be careful." I'm like, "Dude, I'm Hindu." (Laughter) He's like, "Huh!"
02:44
You know, my work is inspired by events such as this. Even in my gallery shows, I try and revisit historic events like Babri Masjid, distill only its emotional residue and image my own life. Imagine history being taught differently.
03:01
Remember that children's book where you shake and the sexuality of the parents change? I have another idea. It's a children's book about Indian independence -- very patriotic. But when you shake it, you get Pakistan's perspective. Shake it again, and you get the British perspective.
03:16
(Applause)
03:21
You have to separate fact from bias, right. Even my books on children have cute, fuzzy animals. But they're playing geopolitics. They're playing out Israel-Palestine, India-Pakistan. You know, I'm making a very important argument. And my argument [is] that the only way for us to teach creativity is by teaching children perspectives at the earliest stage. After all, children's books are manuals on parenting, so you better give them children's books that teach them perspectives. And conversely, only when you teach perspectives will a child be able to imagine and put themselves in the shoes of someone who is different from them.
04:00
I'm making an argument that art and creativity are very essential tools in empathy. You know, I can't promise my child a life without bias -- we're all biased -- but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.
04:14
Thank you very much.
04:16
(Applause)
新SAT必读演讲参考翻译
00:11
嗨 大家好 我是名艺术家和两个孩子的父亲 谢谢 我想把我最近的艺术作品分享给大家 是iPad上的一本儿童书刊 是本新奇古怪的书 叫做"戳一下" 这是关于孩子和他们父母的故事
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(音乐)
00:33
这是在教孩子上厕所-- 你们大概都知道 你能挠地毯痒痒 你能叫孩子便便 你能做任何好玩的事情 你能戳泡泡啊 你还能画画 相信大家都会
00:54
但是 我对儿童读物有一点不满意 我觉得它们在宣扬偏见 印度人别指望能在在Park Slope买到本美式的书籍至少我不是这样长大的 所以我决定 "我要用我的书来抗争主流" 如果你有仔细观察的话 会发现是一对男同性恋在抚养小孩 不喜欢这样? 摇一下 他们就变女同性恋了 (笑声) 再摇一下 就变成了异性的夫妻 我其实不相信世上有完美家庭
01:25
我来说说我的童年吧 我上的是一个很正统的基督学校 由修女 神父 兄弟 姐妹教授课 他们要把握培养成合格的撒马利亚人 而且我也做到了 每晚我都会去到传统印度教的屋子 那可能是在伊斯兰教区附近 仅有的一间印度教的房子 我庆祝每个宗教节日 如果我们有邻居结婚的话 我们都会把房屋粉刷一新 我记得我们号啕大哭过那是为夏天和我们一起玩的小羊羔 被做成比尔尼亚菜饭而哀悼 (笑声) 在斋月的时候 我们都要斋戒 那真是段美妙的回忆
02:06
但我得说 我不会忘怀13岁那年发生的事情 Babri Masjid-- 印度最有名的清真寺 由Babur国王于16世纪建造寺庙 居然被印度教狂热份子拆毁 这在我的城市引起轩然大波 这也是我第一次 感受到集体暴乱 的影响 我邻居家五岁小孩 跑进我家 叫道 "Rags Rags 你知道吗 印度教的在残杀我们穆斯林教的人了 当心点" 我回应说 "小家伙 我就是印度教的" (笑声) 他惊呼 "啊!"
02:44
要知道 我的工作灵感就源于 这种类似的事情 甚至在我的画展中 我也试着回顾那些历史事件 如Babri Masjid一样 提取情感碎片 以及生活中的片段 试想若历史能用一种新方式教
03:01
还记的那本儿童读物 你摇一下就能换父母性别 我有个主意 做一本关于印度独立的书 很爱国吧 摇一下 就变巴基斯坦的视角 再摇一下 就变成英国人的视角
03:16
(掌声)
03:21
你得把事实和偏见分开 我的书上画着 可爱的毛绒动物 但是它们代表着地区政治的意义 代表着以色列和巴基斯坦 印度和巴基斯坦 我要作出一个很重要的论证 我的论证就是 我们教授创造性的唯一方式 是在幼年时期就教孩子 从多角度的看待问题 毕竟孩子从儿童书籍吸取知识 所以要选能教会他们多角度看问题的书 反之只有当你教孩子用不同的角度看问题 孩子才能发挥想象 并设身处地的考虑 那些有别与他们的人
04:00
我觉得 艺术和创造力 是共鸣的支柱 我不能保证自己的孩子 一辈子没有偏见-- 我们都是有偏见的-- 但我保证会从多个角度去教导孩子
04:14
谢谢大家
04:16
(掌声)
