ABSTRACT
This is a story about stories and the way they emerge from the field between psychology and performance. In this chapter, I am exploring and witnessing story from the perspective of an active aesthetic in the way that story lives within my specific performance practices. The chapter follows the premises that Experience Bryon sets in her introductory chapter, in the sense that interdisciplinarity is active, dynamic and processual and knowledge from one discipline floats in the space between psychology and performance. Here, I problematise and question the notion of story as used in psychology and in performance, aiming to acknowledge and encounter not only literal and linear stories but also those that emerge out of self-manifestation, through one’s imagination, movement, sounds, touch or other senses. Story is not examined in service of a narrative but rather as an active event that emerges in the place between one and another in the way of storying. The meaning is created and generated in that middle field. What happens when we witness the stories that are created in the act of storying?
