Songs from the Navel to the Spine (Studies on Squats III), 2022




Performance

Songs from the Navel to the Spine (Studies on Squats III)
Yon Natalie Mik










Artist: Yon Natalie Mik
Curated by Zasha Colah
Commissioned by Archive Ensemble, Pirelli HangarBicocca
Performed by Yon Natalie Mik and students of Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), with public audience participation
Choreopoethics Program, Milano Re-Mapped Summer Festival
Photos by Lorenzo Palmieri

Role (Isabella Pirro):Participant Performer, supporting the lead performer within the choreographic framework.

Studies on Squats examines the bodily posture of the squat as a performative archive of cultural, affective, and political data. Using the “Asian squat” as a central mode, the work approaches posture as an embodied information system through which histories of migration, illness, resilience, and collective survival circulate. Through choreographic and relational practices, the project positions movement as a form of knowledge production—one that resists and expands dominant sociotechnical frameworks.