Author: Emily Gastineau

Emily Gastineau is a choreographer, writer, performer, and editor based in Minneapolis. Her recent research focuses on the generic: the objects and ideas that are so pervasive we become unable to see their specificity. Recurring themes in her body of work include neoliberalism and endurance, spectatorship and revulsion, desire and language, and how to wade through the mess of existing culture. She is committed to collaboration, collective structures, and reorganizing the structures of making and relating across the field.

Her work has been supported, developed, or presented at Frascati (Amsterdam), Studio 303 (Montreal), On the Boards (Seattle), workspacebrussels, Garage29 (Brussels), The Luminary (St. Louis), SE.S.TA (Prague), Walker Art Center, Red Eye Theater, Soap Factory, Southern Theater, Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis), Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and Minnesota State Arts Board, among others. She created over a dozen collaborative works and toured nationally with Billy Mullaney (US/NL) as part of the performance duo Fire Drill. Emily co-founded the performance writing platform Criticism Exchange (2014-2016), and her writing on performance has also been published on Mn Artists, MARCH, Temporary Art Review, Culturebot, and others.

Emily worked with Mn Artists at the Walker Art Center from 2014 to 2023, supporting almost every aspect of the program and most recently serving as the editor of the interdisciplinary arts writing publication. She completed a master’s from DAS Choreography, Amsterdam University of the Arts, in 2019. Emily is a Co-Artistic Director of Red Eye, a collectively-run performance space in South Minneapolis.

www.emilygastineau.com