About

Yoni Tamang is a writer, critic, and performance-maker whose work moves between theory, literature, and live art. They write essays, serial novels, and plays that treat criticism as a creative act, blurring boundaries between scholarship and storytelling. Their performances often stage bodies at the edge of breakdown as sites where politics, care, nature and aesthetics collide.

Tamang’s work was forged in the pulse of the underground, in DIY art spaces, experimental theaters, guerrilla zines, and punk-house basements. Their practice draws on queer theory, multi-species collaboration, and improvosiational somatics while insisting on lived experience as method. What emerges is not simply “autotheory” or “performance art” but a hybrid form that collides the intimacy of storytelling and the rigor of philosophy.

Their performance work has been shown at the Guthrie Theater and many smaller venues across the country. They were a resident columnist at the Brooklyn based Mask Magazine from 2015-2019. Their critical essays have been shown in the Walker Art Center’s journal MNartists and they were a frequent contributor of book reviews to the the Minneapolis based Rain Taxi. They helped produce Steve Paxton’s massive movement study Material For the Spine and was Artistic Co-Director of Lightning Rod, an experimental theater company for early to mid career trans artists.