Yon Natalie Mik is a multidisciplinary artist and performance artist who works at the intersection of dance, poetry, sound and installation. Her works invite the audience to unlearn and re-imagine social choreographies. She uses performance as both theory and practice to explore themes such as labour, migration, spirituality and illness. Since 2018, her work has been funded by Akademie Schloss Solitude, Taipei Performing Arts Centre, esea contemporary, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, among others. Her work has been presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, the Berlin Performing Arts Festival and the ifa Gallery Berlin. Mik has also taught performance as a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and the Korea National University of Arts.