In Massage Shop Codes: Lecture Performance, dancer and choreographer Yon Natalie Mik will share her artistic research on the movements of migrant women who perform therapeutic massage work in Seoul despite legal restrictions that render their labor invisible and precarious.

Through choreographed movement, sound, and spoken words, Yon isolates and closely studies individual massage movements she previously collected through kinetic interviews conducted at massage businesses. She treats each massage movement as a portal to oppressed histories and overlooked socio-political realities.

The work is part of the ongoing project Massage Shop Codes, which builds embodied archives to document the movements of migrant massage workers engaged in intimate forms of care labor.

Yon Natalie MIK is an artist, dancer, and choreographer who creates performances, videos, and notations in the form of images and sculptural objects. Grounded in crip theory and feminist discourse, her practice explores performative ways to archive embodied knowledge that persists outside institutional recognition.