Yen Noh

Yen Noh is an artist, writer, and educator affiliated with the Academy of Theatre and Dance at Amsterdam University of the Arts. Her practice focuses on social aesthetic pedagogy and explores the intersections of racialized/gendered identity, disability justice, and mental health through artistic research. Currently, she investigates illness as a pedagogical method and communal recovery process, challenging capitalist medical systems' limitations.

Research Interests: Noh’s work critically examines the performativity of language, displacement, and the transformative potential of suffering bodies. Key themes include decolonial theory, climate crisis, and the radical unsettlement of selfhood through illness. She draws on disability justice frameworks to reimagine social relations beyond individualized notions of health and identity.

Awards:

• Recipient of the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice (2021-2022)

Labs/Teams: Active in the THIRD Cohorts research collective, focusing on embodied knowledge in theatre and dance. Engaged with the ATD Lectorate’s interdisciplinary projects like Diseuse(d), Diseased, Disused, which frames illness as a collective practice of resistance.