his PhD project (carried out from 2018-2024 at The Artistic Faculty, University of Gothenburg) explored how site-specific performance practice can be addressed through an embodied and documentary approach. By employing the notion of agency, it examined how we can enter, access, and uncover the multiple layers of a specific place to collect and generate a performance and/or documentary material. In this process, a special emphasis was placed on grasping and sort of excavating the hidden narratives of a place which in short, refer to all the potential narratives that may be untold, unmanifested or unexpected. With such an emphasis, Nathalie S. Fari designed a series of performance laboratories in collaboration with artist-researchers from the performing arts field. Using approaches from place-based research, posthumanism and performance documentation, these laboratories developed a series of exercises for the specific places we were dealing with. With the focus on extending a studio practice to the public space, these exercises proposed on the one hand, different ways of mapping, sensing, and documenting the myriad events and manifestations of a place. On the other, they explored how and where we could place the camera in the space to generate as much as possible, a diverse and rich audiovisual material. The claim that by challenging and expanding the documentary status (or truthful meaning) of such a material, new forms of narrativisation and agency may arise, operated here as an approach to site-oriented screen performance as research. As a result, this artistic research project culminated in a COMPILATION THESIS in which the different materials that came out of the performance laboratories such as articles, video-essays, questionnaires, laboratory reports, and film, are presented and discussed.