Creative Constraints

Two speakers, two worlds and one fantastic conversation!

with

Paul Taylor - musician / writer

&

Fatima Maria Felisberti - artist / researcher

Join us for our first talk of the New Year when we'll be upstairs at The Devereux in London on Wednesday Jan 21st, digging deep into creativity.

First up, we'll have the musician and writer Paul Taylor talking with us about his creative process and how he combines his work across multiple fields to create his core project, Trombone Poetry, and the production of a diverse collection of books of poems and photographs. A key element in Paul’s process is defining a set of rules to frame the way he works and, influenced by OuLiPo, the Workshop of Potential Literature founded in Paris in 1960, Paul will show how he’s drawn inspiration from this group’s continued work in rules-based creativity and used it to invent his own set of constraints to playfully engage with everything from art and music to architecture, urbanism & media while touching upon many other themes along the way.

Following Paul, Fatima Maria Felisberti will approach creativity from a different direction as she engages us in an exploration of the brain and the different ways it processes sensory input. As a neuroscientist and artist, Fatima Maria’s research investigates how perception, emotion, and imagination shape our experience with art and nature. She’ll be introducing some of the remarkable ways our brain interacts with the world - not just passively observing, but actively shaping what we see and how we imagine. With some hands-on demonstrations in optical illusions and colour adaptation she’ll uncover how perception bends reality and will show how the delicate dance between the two deepens our connection to the world around us—and to ourselves.

What makes Tickbird&Rhino two-speaker evenings such a good time is never knowing how different worlds will collide until the conversation begins. So, grab a seat and join the fun, this is bound to be an inspiring night.

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Fatima Maria Felisberti holds dual PhDs in neuroscience - one in Experimental Psychology from the University of São Paulo and the other in Biological Cybernetics from the Max Planck Institute, Tüebingen. She did her postdoc research at Nottingham University, City University and Royal Holloway University, London. Currently a visiting Associate Professor at the University of Bristol she is also studying Fine Art (Painting).

Fatima Maria’s collaborations span national and international research teams and cultural institutions, including the Stanley Picker Gallery, Hayward Gallery, The Cultural Capital Exchange (TCCE), and Fundacion Iturria.

researchgate.net/profile/Fatima-Felisberti/research

linkedin.com/in/dr-fatima-maria-felisberti-6a18a727/

research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/fatima-m-felisberti/publications/

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Paul Taylor occupies diverse niches in the worlds of writing and music. Performing traditional jazz and free improvisation, he can also be found masquerading as a Colombian in salsa and Latin jazz bands or performing solo as Trombone Poetry. A bibliomaniac interested in philosophy, engineering, history (and too many other things) he has published several books of his poetry, including Better Late Than Sorry and Otherhithe.

trombonepoetry.com

substack.com/@trombonepoetry

instagram.com/trombonepoetry

facebook.com/trombonepoetry

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above image - detail of 'The Poetess', Joan Miro, 1940