Julie Tolentino

Julie Tolentino is an artist, dancer, choreographer, and performance artist.

Life

Tolentino was born and raised in San Francisco in a Filipino/El Salvadorian family. She began her formal dance training in ballet, modern, jazz and contemporary dance, as well as Afro-Haitian and Flamenco. In 1987 Tolentino moved to New York and in 2009 she moved to Los Angeles. She currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Joshua Tree.[1]

Work

Tolentino has collaborated with Stosh Fila, Ron Athey, Catherine Opie, and many others. She was a figure in the 1989 "Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do" campaign by the AIDS awareness artist-activist collective Gran Fury.[2] Tolentino posed with Madonna in a series of homo-erotic photos in the book, SEX,[3][4] and was a featured artist for an artist book by Rodarte photographed by Catherine Opie.[5] From 1990–1999, Tolentino regularly danced in David Rousseve's Dance Theatre Company, 'Reality.[6][6]

Tolentino founded the Clit Club, a queer and pro-sex lesbian nightclub which was operational from 1990–2012, which was referenced by Primus on their song De Anza Jig. She is an AIDS activist, caregiver, events coordinator, and prominent supporter of lesbian visibility. In her own words, "My work has an inherent base in the experience of being a survivor, activist, and friend/helper/caregiver ... as I focus on the accumulation of 'small' moments and the simplicity, tenderness, reverence of these experiences as well as how they grow into sometimes overwhelming and chaotic times."[7] Tolentino literally co-wrote the Lesbian AIDS Project's Women's Safer Sex Handbook, and was a founding member of ACT UP New York's House of Color Video Collective. Currently, she is the Provocations co-editor for The Drama Review (TDR) with MIT Press.[8]

Since 1998, Tolentino's solo and group installations and performance work have been presented at the New Museum,[9] the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin;[10] La Batofar, Paris, France; Participant Inc, Performa05 Biennial;[11] Momenta and Monkey Town Gallery;The Kitchen; Madre Museo, Naples, Italy; Walker Arts Center;[12] the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions;[13]

In 2012, Tolentino created Raised by Wolves at Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles which consisted of over 50 intimate performances.[14][15][16]

References

  1. ↑ "Julie Tolentino Wood | The National Archives". Discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  2. ↑ "MoMA". Moma.org. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  3. ↑ "Julie Tolentino Wood". Nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  4. ↑ "Madonna, Money and 'Sex' - The Untold Story : Entertainment Weekly (November 06 1992) - all about Madonna". Allaboutmadonna.com. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  5. ↑ "The Art of Rodarte: The Mulleavy Sisters and Catherine Opie on Their Experimental New Fashion Book - BLOUIN ARTINFO". Artinfo. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  6. 1 2 "Review/Dance - A Reality Piece in Two Parts and Places - NYTimes.com". Nytimes.com. 2 June 1991. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  7. ↑ "Julie Tolentino". The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  8. ↑ "The Drama Review". Mitpressjournals.org. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  9. ↑ "PERFORMANCE ARCHIVING PERFORMANCE". Newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  10. ↑ Haus der Kulturen der Welt. "HKW - Julie Tolentino". HKW.de. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  11. ↑ Ellen Pearlman. "Performa 05". Brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  12. ↑ "Blood artist Ron Athey performs "Resonate/Obliterate" - artnet Magazine". Artnet.com. 20 December 2011. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  13. ↑ "GUTTED 2011". Welcometolace.org. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  14. ↑ "Julie Tolentino "Raised by Wolves" at Commonwealth & Council : Cartwheel Art". Cartwheelart.com. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  15. ↑ "Julie Tolentino / Raised by Wolves: An offering, a question to experience". Notesonlooking.com. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
  16. ↑ "Commonwealth and Council". Commonwealthandcouncil.com. 2013-05-04. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
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