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Julie Tolentino is an artist, dancer, choreographer, and performance artist.
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- Julie tolentino raul and julio series untitled diaspore
- Julie tolentino and stosh fila aka pigpen it will all end in ultra red tears
- Life
- Work
- References
Julie tolentino and stosh fila aka pigpen it will all end in ultra red tears
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.
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. Tolentino posed with Madonna in a series of homo-erotic photos in the book, SEX, and was a featured artist for an artist book by Rodarte photographed by Catherine Opie. From 1990–1999, Tolentino regularly danced in David Rousseve's Dance Theatre Company, 'Reality.
Tolentino founded the Clit Club, a queer and pro-sex lesbian nightclub which was operational from 1990–2012. 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." 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.
Since 1998, Tolentino's solo and group installations and performance work have been presented at the New Museum, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; La Batofar, Paris, France; Participant Inc, Performa05 Biennial; Momenta and Monkey Town Gallery;The Kitchen; Madre Museo, Naples, Italy; Walker Arts Center; the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions;
In 2012, Tolentino created Raised by Wolves at Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles which consisted of over 50 intimate performances.