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

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to say, "I exist."

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

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to say, "They exist."

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

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the rooftops of Kenya

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to the favelas of Rio,

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paper and glue -- as easy as that.

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I asked a question last year:

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Can art change the world?

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Well let me tell you,

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

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because the Arab Spring is still spreading,

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the Eurozone has collapsed ... what else?

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The Occupy movement found a voice,

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and I still have to speak English constantly.

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So there has been a lot of change.

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So when I had my TED wish last year,

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

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You are going to take the photos.

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You're going to send them to me.

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

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

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for you to place your own statement.

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This is Inside Out.

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One hundred thousand posters have been printed this year.

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

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And we keep sending more every day.

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This is the size.

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

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This one was from Haiti.

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When I launched my wish last year,

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

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But I say it has to be

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under the conditions I've always worked:

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no credit, no logos, no sponsoring.

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

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and empower the people on the ground

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who wanted to change the world.

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

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Two weeks after my speech, in Tunisia,

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hundreds of portraits were made.

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

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[with] their own photos.

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Boom! This is what happened.

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Slim and his friends went through the country

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and pasted hundreds of photos everywhere

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to show the diversity in the country.

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They really make Inside Out their own project.

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Actually, that photo was pasted in a police station,

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and what you see on the ground

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

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Russia. Chad wanted to fight against homophobia in Russia.

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

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and stood there with the photos

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to say, "We have rights."

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They used Inside Out as a platform for protest.

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Karachi, Pakistan.

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Sharmeen is actually here.

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She organized a TEDx action out there

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and made all the unseen faces of the city

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on the walls in her town.

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And I want to thank her today.

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North Dakota. Standing Rock Nation,

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

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wanted to show that the Native Americans are still here.

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The seventh generation are still fighting for their rights.

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He pasted up portraits all over his reservation.

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And he's here also today.

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Each time I get a wall in New York,

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I use his photos to continue spreading the project.

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Juarez: You've heard of the border --

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one of the most dangerous borders in the world.

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Monica has taken thousands of portraits with a group of photographers

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and covered the entire border.

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Do you know what it takes to do this?

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

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It was amazing.

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While in Iran at the same time

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Abololo -- of course a nickname --

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has pasted one single face of a woman

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to show his resistance against the government.

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

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There are tons of school projects.

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

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Education is so essential.

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

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they paste them on the school.

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Here they even got the help of the firemen.

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

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

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

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

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

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Thousands of people use them

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

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and then walk in the street.

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

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They were all holding their photo as a statement.

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

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It's everywhere.

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

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These projects took thousands of actions in one year,

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making hundreds of thousands of people participating,

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creating millions of views.

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

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

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

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But maybe we should change the question.

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Can art change people's lives?

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From what I've seen this year, yes.

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

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Let's turn the world inside out together.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)