Songs from the Navel to the Spine (Studies on Squats III), 2022
Yon Natalie Mik
Commissioned and curated by Archive, Pirelli HangarBicocca
Performed by Yon Natalie Mik and students of Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) with public audience for the Choreopoethics Program presented as part of the Milano Re-Mapped Summer Festival.
Photos by Lorenzo Palmieri

The series Studies on Squats explores the social choreographies and kinetic tales of the Asian Squat, revealing layers of migration, race, diplomacy, sexuality and colonial historicities.

The third performative study examined the Asian Squat not just as a movement but as a conversation with the spirit it encapsulates, a deep dive into the well of collective memory and individual assertion that the Asian squat represents.