Offset Memory
Yon Natalie Mik
Exhibition ⎢ Thurs. April 24, 18 - 21 hr
einBuch.haus / Florastr.61, 13187 Berlin
Offset Memory exhibits a dialogue between a book and its memory. It invites the audience to trace the fragile anatomy of a book by looking at it together with its material that had emerged before the ink dried.
Visual and performance artist Yon Natalie Mik’s long-term multimedia project Studies on Squats (2020-2024) has culminated in a same-titled publication—her debut poetry collection, interwoven with images made during the book’s creation. At its core, the project explores embodied resistance—using the bodily posture of the “Asian Squat” as a radical lens to examine themes of migration, illness, and resilience. It explores how dance and choreographic thinking become tools for imagining alternative futures that defy social and cultural oppression. The book was co-published by Archive Books and the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design.
For Offset Memory, the book sits alongside its own ghosts: memories of conversations that dissolved into performances, choreographies that hardened into notations, and printing plates—stripped off function—still sweating ink and catching light like liquid mirrors.
Offset Memory is an invitation to think about displacement as relocation. It’s about memories that are never a perfect copy, always offset from the experience it refers to. Always becoming.
Yon Natalie Mik
Yon Natalie Mik is a multidisciplinary artist whose work invites audiences to unlearn and reimagine dance. Her most recent work has employed expanded choreographies to explore themes like labor, migration, and illness. She activates traditional art spaces, educational institutions, and community settings to offer social support while critically engaging public systems. Mik is the co-founder of The Invisible Archive and works in Berlin, Los Angeles and Seoul.
