yon natalie mik

A woman is ill and cannot leave her home. Through the internet, she begins to build a network with other people, finding ways to carry and be carried across the distance between them. As she creates the infrastructure that makes these encounters possible, her house becomes a place of unexpected movement, intimacy, and dependence. u_me_e/o follows her through a dancerly diary of sounds, gestures, and fragments of everyday life, where the smallest actions acquire new weight. Drawing on crip knowledge and the artist’s lived experience, the work explores the difficult tenderness of needing others. It asks what becomes possible when a body must learn its world, and its ways of moving through it, all over again.

About the Project: Studies on Carrying explores ideas of dependency, surrender, and labor through the movement of carrying. The project translates carrying gestures that are sometimes illegible or hidden inside private or intimate spaces into public performances, texts, video, and sound works. The project stems from the artist’s experience undergoing breast cancer treatment, a period during which she had to relearn her body and rewrite ideas of agency and labor.

Concept/Performance/Video: Yon Natalie Mik

Support: Ob/scene Festival