This session draws from Cori Olinghouse’s living archives methodology that uses a poetics of language to enrich the descriptive text used in performance archives. Utilizing methods of oral history gathering, visual mapping, thick description, and access work, this approach is meant to expand accessibility to the embodied practices that inform an artist’s work. Together we will move and write, drawing from Jane Bennett’s notion of “words as sticky substances,” as a way to approach words at the “level of their sensuous specificity." We will also experiment with Laura Mark’s notion of haptic visuality, where the “eyes themselves function like organs of touch,” inviting a tactile relation—a touching, more than looking. The session will end in a collective discussion, reimagining one of the glossary terms generated on behalf of Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum.