Can we choose to fall out of love? | Dessa | TEDxWanChai
The singer and rapper Dessa had been writing songs about heartbreak for years as she waded through a volatile relationship and a protracted breakup. One night, inspired by a TED Talk, she decided to design a case study in which she'd be the only participant. With the help of an fMRI machine, a team of willing scientists and a neuro-feedback practitioner, she turned to neuroscience to see if it could help her, finally, fall out of love. In this talk, she shares the journey and results of this unique endeavour. Dessa’s project may not be an official scientific study, but it is a lens for examining the big questions on love and loss, mind and body, art and science.
Singer, rapper, and writer Dessa has made a career of bucking genres and defying expectations—her resume as a musician includes performances at Lollapalooza, Glastonbury and the Minnesota Orchestra, co-compositions for a hundred-voice choir and a top-200 entry on the Billboard charts for her album Parts of Speech. As a writer, she’s been published by The New York Times Magazine and broadcast by Minnesota Public Radio. She has self-published two literary collections of her own and is set to release her first hardcover collection with Dutton Books in the fall of 2018. On the stage and on the page, her style is defined by a ferocity, wit, tenderness and candor.
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