藝術家實驗室

Yon Natalie Mik is a multidisciplinary artist and dancer who is working at the intersection of performance and poetry. Drawing from the knowledge of disobedient and marginalized bodies, Mik’s expanded choreographies are anchored on the subversive power of fragility. Her practice often manifests in in-depth studies of kinetic thinking that range from individual gestures to larger social movements. Some of her latest projects exposed the body politics in the lives of Asian migrants shaped by ableism, racism, and classism. She considers her practice as a choreographic approach to archiving overlooked or oppressed forms of bodily knowledge. 

Her own body serves as a living archive, ever transforming, unreliable yet resilient, kinetically rewriting socio-cultural landscapes distorted by hate, greed, and fear. She founded The Invisible Archive in 2019, a publication and multi-authored archive project that explores art and activism through the lens of embodiment and performativity. Her ongoing Ph.D. project titled Choreography of the Ghost – Archiving Bodily Knowledge in Expanded Asia is funded by the German Research Foundation.

Photo (c) Rina Nakano