Artist | Yannick Eike Mirko | New York

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yannick-robin e. mirko

Multi-Disciplinary Artist + Vejigante. Licensed Cremator, Death Doula, Hospice Bereavement + Grief Counselor...
[he just, they work a lot in service of death/end-of-life care]

the surgery is never going to happen

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two images of yannick-robin sitting on a fire escape (one with book in hand staring into camera, the other without the book and he's facing away) overlay atop each other.

[image description]: yannick-robin rolls down a long winding road. there are duplicates of him in different places on the road and surrounding pavement. he is enjoying his way down, with arms up like wings.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits center stage, script on lap, with director L Morgan Lee sitting at his left, and a line-up of stellar actors spread across the stage.

jasper's patches by @the_dead_poets_ on Instagram

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[image description]: This actor whirls in his wheelchair,
shimmies on his cane, quicksteps
on his feet. In the program,
they/he announce. Openly disabled.
Meet "Jasper, the Wheelchair,"
Meet "Gloria, the Cane."
I'm transfixed. His grace.
The ease with which his fellow
actors wield his weight
so that on his feet or in his chair
he's moving. Rhythm.
Magnetism. Attitude.
Nothing to fear but fear itself.
He's taken FDR's words to heart./
But not that iconic president's dictate:
No audience should se him wheeling.
or bowed and restricted in his chair.
That weakness
FDR could not overcome.
All of us salvaging. Our frailties,
anxieties, missing parts,
convinced we're at our best
when we hide. Our cracks.
Our scars. Our chasms.
In this play, can you
see yourself?

[image description]: yannick-robin sits at the drum kit during rehearsal for Mr. Holland's Opus. They're smiling, and wearing an outfit that makes them happy.

[image description]: yannick-robin plays Bobby Toti, holding a recently-played trumpet, sat beside Akron Watson [playing Mr. Holland] on stage during a scene in Ogunquit Playhouse's world premiere production of BD Wong's writing and directorial debut musical, Mr. Holland's Opus.

[image description]: an edited image shows two cut-outs of yannick-robin playing an electric guitar on stage, overlayed and in moody lighting. They riff to a Joan Baez song.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits in jasper, while playing a bright red Fender strat.

[image description]: yannick-robin plays Ricky Potts, playing the accordion on stage during a number in Princeton's McCarter Theatre production of Ride The Cyclone.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits in jasper, his chair, holding a glockenspiel facing the sky with a smile, daydreaming on stage as Ricky Potts.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits in jasper, his chair, in front of a filming set up. They make eye contact with the lense,using a dissociated thousand-yard stare.

[image description]: robin stands afront a wall covered in projections of moving cars, single eye lit by the motion hovering in an otherwise black silhouette.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits afront a sheet of plexi-glass, and breaths a deep breath of suspicion/hesitancy onto the glass.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits afront a dark background in a navy button down with small pink polka dots. He is posed facing left, smiling shyly.

[image description]: yannick-robin sits in a garden to the left of Jacks Muniz. They are singing passionately into microphones in their hands while wearing floral jackets. There are green plants in the background.

[image description]: yannick-robin stands wearing a silk paisley shirt, in the middle of an empty subway station, surrounded by clear glass tiles, with an ominous light above him casting a shadow on their face.

[image description]: yannick-robin stands in front of a microphone on stage at Rockwood Music Hall. They are wearing a black sleeveless shirt, and is mid-phrase, leaning into the microphone on his left.

[image description]: yannick-robin stands on stage in front of sparkling red lights. He is singing into a microphone on his right, arm raised above a guitar. He is playing while singing.

[image description]: robin sings looking downward, in an overlayed video that laps with a camera facing down the center of an empty trail in the forest. stills from videos past, 2_

[image description]: yannick-robin sits underneath a tree in the Boston Public Garden, knitting, with patches and wires that are stuck to his exposed chest skin, leading to a heart monitor.

[image description]: yannick-robin laughs in a candid photograph on the shore of revere, where he holds a bucket with gloves in one hand, and puts trash in it with the other. he's mid-chortle.

[image description]: yannick-robin stands on stage in front of sparkling red lights. He is singing into a microphone, arm raised above a ukulele. They are playing while singing.

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