Sylvia Solakidi: The Pulse of Love and Grief

From sensory experience to emotions, from the crossing over of tactility and aurality to the crossing over of love and grief.This itinerary is explored through lonely train journeys that encounter Susan Sontag’s 'In America', Pablo Picasso’s 'Science and Charity'; Connie Palmen’s 'Logbook of a Merciless Year', Nick Cave’s Skeleton Tree Live Tour and the philosophy of tactility of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Luce Irigaray.It all begins with taking the pulse: listen to your heartbeat by placing two fingers on your wrist.Sylvia Solakidi is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Performance Philosophy, University of Surrey. She writes about experiences of time with the help of theatre and music performances, visual arts and literature, as well as through the writings of phenomenologists, anthropologists and performance scholars; she never forgets her experiences from Greek medical laboratories, where she used to work as a Biologist.