One year of turning the world inside out | JR

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

Translator: Mergim Gashi Reviewer: Dita Bytyci

Twelve years ago, I was in the street writing my name

12 vjete më parë, une isha ne rruge duke shkruar emrin tim

to say, "I exist."

per te thene, "Une ekzistoj".

Then I went to taking photos of people to paste them on the street

Pastaj fillova t'u beja foto njerezve per t'i ngjitur ato ne rruge

to say, "They exist."

per te thene, " Ata ekzistojne."

From the suburbs of Paris to the wall of Israel and Palestine,

Nga periferia e Parisit tek muri i Israelit dhe Palestines,

the rooftops of Kenya

çatitë e Kenisë

to the favelas of Rio,

deri tek favelat e Rios,

paper and glue -- as easy as that.

leter dhe ngjites -- aq e thjeshte.

I asked a question last year:

Une bera nje pyetje vitin e kaluar:

Can art change the world?

A mundet arti ta ndryshoje boten?

Well let me tell you,

Me lejoni t'u tregoj,

in terms of changing the world there has been a lot of competition this year,

ne termat e te ndryshuarit te botes ka pasur shume konkurrence kete vit

because the Arab Spring is still spreading,

sepse pranvera Arabike eshte ende duke u shperndare,

the Eurozone has collapsed ... what else?

Eurozona eshte shembur -- çfare tjeter?

The Occupy movement found a voice,

Levizja "Occupy" gjeti zerin,

and I still have to speak English constantly.

dhe une ende duhet te flas Anglisht rregullisht.

So there has been a lot of change.

Keshtu, ka pasur shume ndryshime.

So when I had my TED wish last year,

Kur shpreha deshiren time ne TED vitin e kaluar,

I said, look, I'm going to switch my concept.

thashe, shiko, une do te ndryshoj konceptin tim.

You are going to take the photos.

Ti do ti besh fotografite.

You're going to send them to me.

Do te mi dergosh mua.

I'm going to print them and send them back to you.

Une do t'i printoj dhe do t'i dergoj perseri te ti.

Then you're going to paste them where it makes sense

Pastaj ti do t'i ngjisesh aty ku ka kuptim

for you to place your own statement.

per ty per te shprehur ate qe do te thuash.

This is Inside Out.

Ky eshte projekti Inside Out.

One hundred thousand posters have been printed this year.

100 mije postera jane printuar kete vit.

Those are the kind of posters, let me show you.

Keto jane llojet e posterave, me lejoni te ju tregoj.

And we keep sending more every day.

Dhe ne vazhdojme te dergojme me shume çdo dite.

This is the size.

Kjo eshte madhesia.

Just a regular piece of paper with a little bit of ink on it.

Vetem nje cope letre e thjeshte me pak ngjyre ne te.

This one was from Haiti.

Kjo ishte nga Haiti.

When I launched my wish last year,

Kur une nisa deshiren time vitin e kaluar,

hundreds of people stood up and said they wanted to help us.

qindra njerez u ngriten dhe thane se deshironin te na ndimojne.

But I say it has to be

Por une thashe se duhet te jete

under the conditions I've always worked:

vetem sipas kushte te mia:

no credit, no logos, no sponsoring.

pa kredite, pa llogo, pa sponzorime.

A week later, a handful of people were there ready to rock

Nje jave me vone, njerez te mrekullushem ishin aty gati te punojne

and empower the people on the ground

dhe te fuqizojne njerezit ne bote

who wanted to change the world.

qe deshironim ta ndryshonin boten.

These are the people I want to talk about to you today.

Keta jane njerezit per te cilet dua te flas sot.

Two weeks after my speech, in Tunisia,

Dy jave pas fjalimit tim, ne Tunizi,

hundreds of portraits were made.

qindra potrete ishin bere.

And they pasted [over] every single portrait of the dictator

Dhe ate ngjiten mbi secilin portret te diktatorit

[with] their own photos.

fotografite e veta.

Boom! This is what happened.

Boom! Kjo ndodhi.

Slim and his friends went through the country

Slimi dhe shoket e tij shkuan perreth vendit

and pasted hundreds of photos everywhere

dhe ngjiten qindra fotografi kudo

to show the diversity in the country.

per te treguar diversitetin e vendit.

They really make Inside Out their own project.

Ata vertete e bene Inside Out projekt te vetin.

Actually, that photo was pasted in a police station,

Ajo fotografi ishte ngjitur ne statcionin e policise,

and what you see on the ground

dhe çfare shikoni ne toke

are ID cards of all the photos of people being tracked by the police.

jane leternjoftimet e gjithe fotografive te njerzeve te ndjekur nga policia.

Russia. Chad wanted to fight against homophobia in Russia.

Rusia. Çad deshironte te luftone kunder homofobise ne Rusi.

He went with his friends in front of every Russian embassy in Europe

Ai shkoi me shoket e tij para çdo ambasade Ruse ne Evrope

and stood there with the photos

dhe qendruan atje me fotografite

to say, "We have rights."

per te thene, "Ne kemi te drejta."

They used Inside Out as a platform for protest.

Ata perdoren projektin Inside Out si platforme proteste.

Karachi, Pakistan.

Karachi, Pakistan.

Sharmeen is actually here.

Sharmeen eshte aktualisht ketu.

She organized a TEDx action out there

Ajo organizoi nje aksion TED-i atje

and made all the unseen faces of the city

dhe vendosi te gjitha fytyrat e papara te qytetit

on the walls in her town.

ne muret e qytetie te saj.

And I want to thank her today.

Dhe une dua te falenderoj ate sot.

North Dakota. Standing Rock Nation,

Dakota veriore. Standing Rock Nation.

in this Turtle Island, [unclear name] from the Dakota Lakota tribe

ne kete ishull Turtle, fise nga Dakota Lakota

wanted to show that the Native Americans are still here.

deshironin te tregonin se Amerikanet vendas jane ende ketu.

The seventh generation are still fighting for their rights.

Gjenerata e shtate eshte ende duke luftuar per te drejtat e tyre.

He pasted up portraits all over his reservation.

Ai ngjiti portrete gjithandej "rezervacionit" te tij.

And he's here also today.

Edhe ai eshte ketu sot.

Each time I get a wall in New York,

Sa here qe gjej nje mur ne New York,

I use his photos to continue spreading the project.

une i perdori fotografite e tij per te perhapur projektin.

Juarez: You've heard of the border --

Juarez: Keni degjuar per kufirin --

one of the most dangerous borders in the world.

nje nga kufijtë me te rrezikshem ne bote.

Monica has taken thousands of portraits with a group of photographers

Monika ka bere mijera portrete me grupin e fotografeve

and covered the entire border.

dhe kane mbuluar gjithe kufirin.

Do you know what it takes to do this?

A e dini sa duhet per ta bere kete?

People, energy, make the glue, organize the team.

Njerez, energji, ta bejne ngjitesin, ta organizojne grupin.

It was amazing.

Ka qene e mrekullueshme.

While in Iran at the same time

Per derisa ne Iran ne te njejtin kohe

Abololo -- of course a nickname --

Abololo--- natyrisht nje nofke--

has pasted one single face of a woman

ka ngjitur nje fytyre te vetme te nje gruaje

to show his resistance against the government.

per te treguar rezistence kunder qeverise.

I don't have to explain to you what kind of risk he took for that action.

Nuk kam nevoje t'ua sqaroj ju se çfare rreziku ka marre ai per ate aksion.

There are tons of school projects.

Ka perplot projekteve te shkollave.

Twenty percent of the posters we are receiving comes from schools.

20 perqind e posterave qe kemi marre jane nga shkollat.

Education is so essential.

Edukimi eshte esencial.

Kids just make photos in a class, the teacher receives them,

Femijet vetem bejne fotografi ne klase, mesuesi i merr ato,

they paste them on the school.

dhe i ngjesin ato ne shkolle.

Here they even got the help of the firemen.

Ketu ata madje morren edhe ndihmen e nje zjarrfiksi.

There should be even more schools doing this kind of project.

Duhet te kete madje me shume shkolla qe bejne kete lloj projekti.

Of course we wanted to go back to Israel and Palestine.

Natyrisht ne deshironim te ktheheshim Izrael dhe Palestinë.

So we went there with a truck. This is a photobooth truck.

Keshtu ne shkuam atje me kamion. Ky eshte kamioni yne.

You go on the back of that truck, it takes your photo,

Shkon prapa ne kamion, bene potografine tende,

30 seconds later take it from the side, you're ready to rock.

30 sekonda me vone e merr nga njera ane, dhe je gati.

Thousands of people use them

Mijera njerez i perdorin ato

and each of them signs up for a two-state peace solution

dhe secili nga ata nenshkruan per zgjidhjen paqesore mes dy shteteve

and then walk in the street.

dhe pastaj ecin ne rruge.

This is march, the 450,000 march -- beginning of September.

Ky eshte marshimi, marshimi i 450,000 njerezve -- ne fillim te shtatorit.

They were all holding their photo as a statement.

Ata te gjithe mbanin fotot e tyre per te shprehurqendrimin e tyre.

On the other side, people were wrapping up streets, buildings.

Ne anen tjeter, njerit kishin mbeshtjellur rruget, ndertesat.

It's everywhere.

Ishim kudo.

Come on, don't tell me that people aren't ready for peace out there.

Prandaj, mos me thoni se njerezit nuk jane te gatshem per paqe.

These projects took thousands of actions in one year,

Keto projekte morren mijera aksione brenda nje viti,

making hundreds of thousands of people participating,

duke bere qindra mijra njerez te merrnin pjese,

creating millions of views.

duke pasur miliona shikues.

This is the biggest global art participatory project that's going on.

Ky eshte projekti me i madh ne boten globale te artit qe eshte duke ndodhur.

So back to the question, "Can art change the world?"

Keshtu te kthehemi tek pyetja, "A mundet arti ta ndryshoje boten?"

Maybe not in one year. That's the beginning.

Ndoshta jo brenda nje viti. Ky eshte fillimi.

But maybe we should change the question.

Por ndoshta duhet ta ndryshojme pyetjen.

Can art change people's lives?

A mundet arti te ndryshoje jetet e njerezve?

From what I've seen this year, yes.

Nga çfare kam pare kete vit, po.

And you know what? It's just the beginning.

Dhe e dini çfare? Eshte vetem fillimi.

Let's turn the world inside out together.

Le ta ndryshojme boten se bashku.

Thank you.

Faleminderit.

(Applause)

(Duartrokitje)