Puppets and perception | Russell Dean | TEDxGuildford

What masks and puppets can teach us about how we really perceive the world and the tricks our brain plays to convince us that what we see is ‘real’.

Russell Dean is artistic director of Strangeface Theatre Company. He is a writer and maker with a particular interest in cognition and what masks and puppets reveal about the way we perceive the world. He has made masks and puppets for Trestle, Geese, Vamos, ITV, Channel 4, and is responsible for the large Mrs Thatcher puppet in Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot. After touring nationally and internationally with Strangeface, his recent work has focused on using puppets in workshops with vulnerable adults, families with children in hospices and fathers in prison. He designs and sells masks that are used around the world. Currently he is engaged on a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance via a semi clothed puppet hitman with obsessive compulsive disorder.

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