Here is an overview of my recent and upcoming activities. I try to write this page in clear and accessible language. If you have any feedback on language accessibility, I would be very happy to hear from you. 최근 제 활동을 간단히 정리해봤어요. 이 페이지는 최대한 쉽고 편하게 읽히도록 써보려고 했어요. 읽어보시고 표현이나 이해하기 어려운 부분이 있다면, 편하게 의견 주시면 정말 감사하겠습니다.

2026-10

  • I will share the Massage Shop Codes project as part of an event showcasing Politics of Touch funded by ARKO Inbound International Exchange & Networking program. Arts Council Korea의 Inbound 국제 교류 및 네트워킹 프로그램의 지원을 받아 제작된 Massage Shop Codes 프로젝트를 Politics of Touch 행사에서 선보일 예정입니다.

2026-9

  • A new work called The Task of the Dancer (working title) that explores experiences of fragility, dependency, and self-regulation in times of anxiety and stress will be presented in the form of an performative installation. Its movement vocabulary draws, for example, on stimming, understood not as pathological behavior but as a meaningful, embodied practice of self-regulation and resistance to normative demands for controlled and “proper” bodily conduct. 불안과 스트레스의 상황 속에서 나타나는 취약성, 의존성, 그리고 자기 조절의 경험을 탐구하는 신작 The Task of the Dancer를 수행적 설치미술작품으로 선보일 예정이다. 움직임 어휘는 예컨대 ‘스티밍(stimming)’에서 영감을 받았으며, 이는 병리적 행동이 아니라 자기 조절의 의미 있는 신체적 실천이자, 통제되고 ‘적절한’ 신체 행위를 요구하는 규범에 대한 저항으로 이해된다.

2026-6

  • The project Massage Shop Codes will premiere in Seoul as part of the Bad Boundaries: Bodies in Tension international apexart New York group exhibition. The project is the outcome of two years of non-extractive fieldwork conducted with massage shops and grassroots community movement groups led by elderly women. Alongside three videoworks and sculptural works, I will also share a live performance during the opening of the group exhibition. 프로젝트 Massage Shop Codes는 뉴욕 apexart의 국제 그룹전 Bad Boundaries: Bodies in Tension의 일환으로 서울에서 초연된다. 이 프로젝트는 노년 여성들이 이끄는 마사지숍과 지역 커뮤니티 운동 그룹과 함께 진행한, 비착취적 방식의 2년간의 현장 연구의 결과물이다. 세 편의 비디오 작업과 조각 작업과 더불어, 그룹전 오프닝에서는 라이브 퍼포먼스도 선보일 예정이다.

2026-4

  • During the residency at forever gallery, I will translate a past live performance into a participatory performance that audiences can receive as a letter and experience in their homes, or at any time and place of their choosing. The project asks how performance can expand—becoming more porous and fragile—and seep into people’s everyday lives. The project also carries a desire to share performance across dispersed spaces and uneven temporalities, connecting it to discussions of accessibility, mobility, and crip time. forever gallery에서의 레지던시 기간 동안, 저는 기존의 라이브 퍼포먼스를 관객이 편지의 형태로 받아 각자의 집이나 원하는 시간과 장소에서 경험할 수 있는 참여형 퍼포먼스로 번역할 예정이다. 이 프로젝트는 퍼포먼스가 어떻게 확장되어—더 다공적이고 취약한 형태가 되며—사람들의 일상 속으로 스며들 수 있는지를 질문한다. 또한 서로 다른 공간과 불균등한 시간성 속에 퍼포먼스를 나누고자 하는 바람을 담고 있으며, 이를 접근성, 이동성, 그리고 크립 타임에 대한 논의와 연결한다.

2026-3/4/5

  • From March to May I will be hosting the project “Just Dance Club” at the Korea National University of Arts. Just Dance Club is open to dancers and non-dancers outside of the university. It also aims to create space for movement as well as exchange between students, dance professional and people from all disciplines who are interested in movement. Among others, we will explore movement and choreography connected to ideas of fragility, dependency, distribution of exhaustion, self-regulation of stress and anxiety. 3월부터 5월까지 저는 Korea National University of Arts에서 “Just Dance Club” 프로젝트를 진행할 예정이다. Just Dance Club은 대학 외부의 무용수와 비무용수 모두에게 열려 있으며, 움직임을 위한 공간을 마련하는 동시에 학생, 무용 전문가, 그리고 움직임에 관심 있는 다양한 분야의 사람들이 교류할 수 있는 장을 만드는 것을 목표로 한다. 이 프로그램에서는 특히 취약성, 의존성, 소진의 분배, 스트레스와 불안의 자기 조절과 같은 개념과 연결된 움직임과 안무를 탐구할 예정이다.

2026-2

  • My essay titled “On the Movement of Calibration” has been published on the website of the Performance Art Museum Los Angeles. I am reflecting on Lee Yanghee’s performance titled Shimmering at the Performing Arts Market in Seoul.

2026-1

  • I’m in Brussels for a research residency developing my latest project Massage Shop Codes supported by the Bâtard Festival and Beusschouwburg.

2025-10

  • My essay on Choy Ka Fai’s project Soft Machine The Return will be published on Esplanade Offstage. The essay is titled “On the Movement of Return”. You can read the essay here.

2025-9

  • Artist Jay Afrisando invited me to perform a collaborative work at Galerie im Turm. The performance uses stimming and fidgeting movements and sounds to explore neurodivergent hearing-listening experiences from a performative point of view.

  • The Invisible Archive is participating in the Book Book Independent Publishing Network Festival in Asia organized by Common Imprint and The Book Society.

  • I’m starting my guest professorship at the Korea National University this semester teaching Contemporary Dance at the School of Dance.

2025-7

  • A performative tea ceremony titled Until the Tea Strainer Gets Dry with the artists Iden Iden Sungyoung Kim, Yon Natalie Mik und Minh Đức Phạm at the Museum Ostwall, Dortmunder U. We will explore the histories of contract and guest workers from Vietnam and Korea.

  • Join me for a lecture performance titled Performative Writing, Friendship, Archiving and Fragile Legacies at Common Imprint in Berlin.

  • Schwellenräume: Ein Workshop von Isabel Mehl und Lisa Paland mit Anke Dyes, Marie von Heyl und Yon Natalie Mik. Graduiertenkolleg Normativität Kritik Wandel, Freie Universität Berlin.

2025-6

  • The Invisible Archive is participating in the Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This year’s table partner is Discoteca Flamingstar and guest artist is Takuya Usami. We’re excited to present some new publications including the soft-launch of Miriam Gatt’s new TIA issue on Krista Papista.

2025-5

  • I am presenting my research project Choreography of the Ghost (2021-2025) at the conference 404 Not Found at the Ruhr University Bochum.

  • A new work titled Unworking Movement / Migrating Bodies (2025) will be performed at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA). A video work and notation drawings are exhibited at the Looking After Each Other group exhibition at the same museum. It’s a collaborative project with artist Taeyoon Choi and aims to inspire new conversations around the disability, migration and a practice of empathy through movement.

  • I’m doing a durational, participatory performance for five days each one hour at the MMCA Seoul using key movement from the Unworking Movement / Migrating Bodies choreography.

2025-4

  • Offset Memory exhibits a dialogue between my new poetry book Studies on Squats and its memory. It invites the audience to trace the fragile anatomy of a book by looking at it together with its material that had emerged before the ink dried. The exhibition is part of einBuch.Haus program Month of Listening.

2025-3

  • A cordial invitation to the public defense of my doctoral dissertation “Choreography of the Ghost - Dancing Resistance and Transcultural Archives” at the Freie Universität Berlin.

2025-1

  • I am teaching a seminar titled Dance and Resistance at the Fine Arts Academy Stuttgart, MFA program ‘Body, Theory and Poetics of the Performative.

2024-11

  • I am teaching a seminar titled Dance and Resistance will be held at the Fine Arts Academy Stuttgart, MFA program ‘Body, Theory and Poetics of the Performative.

2024-10

  • Artist Talk with choreographer Isabel Lewis at Kunstraum Mitte for the program DIFFRACTIONS: Collecting&U/learning

2024-9

  • Open Studio program at Forever in Seoul. I’m showing my new work in progress Sound Dance.

2024-8

  • I’ll be in Taipei as part of the ADAM artist lab, a residency program organized by the Taipei Performing Arts Center. During the Adam Gathering, I’ll also be joining a panel titled “Choreographing Politics with & for many other Bodies”

  • Doing an improv performance in collaboration with percussionist Joss Turnbull and curator/sound artist Isak Han in Berlin organized by KTB.

  • The Invisible Archive is launching its latest issue on the Nodeul School for the Disabled (written by Paolo Caffoni) at AGIT in collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room.

2024-8

  • I’ll be in Taipei as part of the ADAM artist lab, a residency program organized by the Taipei Performing Arts Center. During the Adam Gathering, I’ll also be joining a panel titled “Choreographing Politics with & for many other Bodies”

  • Doing an improv performance in collaboration with percussionist Joss Turnbull and curator/sound artist Isak Han in Berlin organized by KTB.

  • The Invisible Archive is launching its latest issue on the Nodeul School for the Disabled (written by Paolo Caffoni) at AGIT in collaboration with Hopscotch Reading Room.

    2024-7

  • Joining an academic panel to introduce my research project “Choreography of the Ghost – Dancing Transcultural Archives and Resistance” at the Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet in Duesseldorf.

2024-6

2024-5

  • I’m sharing my work at the Dutch Art Institute as part of Archive Sites’s program choreopoethics. My three part session titled Dance and Resistance explores ideas of support structures, violence and dependency with regard to choreographic plurality.

  • Gayageum musician YouJin Sung and I present an improv collaboration at Project Space Kimgo, Berlin.

2024-4

  • I am giving a workshop titled Choreography of Care during my short residency at esea contemporary in Manchester, UK. The workshop will focus on ideas of expanded choreography, notation and the role of muism in the process of archiving movements.

2024-3

  • The Invisible Archive launches the Seoul Volume. The inaugural issue of the Seoul Volume features the politico-cultural practice of the Nodeul School for the Disabled and is written by Paolo Caffoni. The launch event takes place at Forever, Seoul.

  • Studies on Touch: Massage Shop is a choreographic archive project that researches and documents the movements of massage therapists in Seoul, Bangkok, and Taipei. I will present my findings in Seoul at the Momuro Salon through an installation and performance.

2024-2

  • ABK Stuttgart and Akademie Schloss Solitude are co-presenting a workshop sharing titled ‘What they say about bodies’ created in collaboration with the students of the MFA program ‘Body, Theory and Poetics of the Performative’. The sharing is performed by the students at the Experimentierbühne Heusteigtheater in Stuttgart.

2024-1

  • Join me for a lecture performance with the Miss Read Talks audience in Wedding, Berlin. The work is part of my current project “Parts of Dance” and is titled ‘I got a million dreams’. I will think about choreography as an expanded practice of publishing and how a sculptural approach to notation systems can open up new relationships to time, space, and the self.

  • I’m sharing my work at the Dutch Art Institute as part of Archive Sites’s program choreopoethics.

  • I’ve started working on a publication about the Studies on Squats project. It will be supported/co-published by ABK Stuttgart and I’m looking for a small-sized publisher to help with distribution.



2023-12

  • A selection of my visual poems and dance notations (No Tomorrow – Scores for the Unreliable Body) as part of the ongoing series ‘Parts of Dance’ will be shown at the accompanied during the Winterfest mit Open Studios at the Akademie Schloss Solitude. My lecture performance Farewell to I - Archiving through Dissolution is also part of the evening program at the Guibal Saal.

2023-11

2023-10

  • The artist residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, DE) and a cooperation fellowship with abk Stuttgart have started. As part of the cooperation fellowship, I’m co-teaching in the MFA program ‘Body, Theory and Poetics of the Performative’ with Discoteka Flamingstar.

2023-9

  • I’m giving a lecture series on vulnerability and social choreography in personal/public space at the dance department, Korea National University of Arts (Seoul, KOR).

  • The Invisible Archive is launching a new issue at the Miss Read art book fair (Berlin, DE): Volume Berlin, Issue No.3 on Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens written by Saskia Vogel; edited by the Invisible Archive team (managing editors Yon Natalie Mik & Paulina Gimpel); peer-reviewed by Tobias Wieland & Jess Aszodi.

2023-8