Unworking Movement / Migrating Bodies, 2025
Live Performance, 1h
Unworking Movement / Migrating Bodies was a collaborative project with artist Choi Taeyoon, consisting of a live performance, a durational performance, drawings, and a video piece. For the live performance, Yon Natalie Mik and her five performers explored the relationship between migration, labor, free time and transfer of movement from body to body. Eight key movements used in the choreography were previously developed through a field study and kinetic interviews with four migrants with different experiences of migration. These movements were treated as lived data, transferred to the performers’ bodies. The performance was presented as a relaxed event, with minimal disturbance from light and sound elements. The audience could freely walk around, enter and exit the performance as well as make noises. Creative audio description as well as captions were integral parts of the work.
Commissioned by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (MMCA)
Choreography by Yon Natalie Mik
Performed by Esl Kim, Sooyoung Park, Hyeontaek Oh, Daelan Yoon, Kwonkeum Ko, Yon Natalie Mik
Music Composer by Gregory Lenczycki and Christopher Davidson
Audio-Description by Yon Natalie Mik, Ko Kwonkeum
Photo documentation by MMCA