A Way to Work on My Problem without Knowing What It Is

The article outlines the background, development, method and impact of performance encyclopaedia, an iterative performance work co-created by Ame Henderson and Evan Webber. performance encyclopaedia, proposes that reading and writing are convivial, choreographic actions that produce not objects but temporal, collective, and embodied experience. The inception of this project is connected to a reading of Artistic research: theories, methods and practices by Mika Hannula, Juha Suoranta, and Tere Vadén, which was a major influence on the creators’ thinking.