A constant and chronic continuation of Tolentino's Cry of Love performance-installation-body art piece(s)
Julie Tolentino is based in New York City. Since 1998, she has created intimate movement-based installations including her solo time-based performances, sculptural endurance events and audio soundscapes. She has also performed with David Rousseve/REALITY Dance Theater, Ron Athey, Ibrahim Quarishi, Helen Paris and Leslie Hill, Margarita Guergue, Amy Pivar, Ori Flomin, Rob Roth and others.
Tolentino's solo performances include upcoming CRY OF LOVE - A Labyrinth (2009) and The Sky Remains the Same: Tolentino Archival Project with various artists. She is currently co-director, with Ron Athey: PRAXIS MOHAVE BOOTCAMP FOR PERFORMANCE ARTISTS, an annual summer ten-day intensive workshop for international artists based in Joshua Tree, California.
She devised Sleep Darling, i will be here when you wake (2007)-sound/performance installation and A TRUE STORY ABOUT TWO PEOPLE (24 hour performance) in the Nomadic New York program curated by Andre Lepecki at the Haus der Kulturen Welt - 50 year anniversary and re-opening in Berlin, Aug 2007. FOR YOU-a one-on-one performance event, at the NGBK Gallery, Berlin, Germany, August 2006; FLUXUS PARTY (2006): Alison Knowles' Wounded Furniture 1965 - recreation with Akiko Ichikawa at Monkey Town Gallery, A True Story About Two People created for Performa 05 Biennial in NYC commissioned by Participant Inc Gallery, NYC FOR YOU (2005) Participant Inc Gallery, NY; Bittersweet (film by David Rousseve) 2005; A Triumph of Night (film by John Brattin 2005); Lost and Found (2005) Curious.com and Lois Weaver, Fierce Festival, Birmingham, NY; The Point of Diminishing Return (2002) at The Kitchen, New York; The Bottom Project (2000) at The Green Room and Contact Theatre, Manchester, England, Somaarts Center, SF, CA, On the Boards, Seattle, WA and The Kitchen, New York
(premiere); Pieces of Mind/Mestiza as Landscape (1999), Birmingham, UK and
Mestiza-que bonitos ojos tienes (1998) at queerupnorth and The Green Room,
Manchester, England, and Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland.
Site-specific solo and large group works include: 10 States to Permanent Sleep
(2002) at The Green Room, Manchester, England; (Untitled) at Le Batofar, Paris,
France; DDSM (1999) at The Green Room, Manchester, England; Pieces of
Mind-Mestiza as Landscape (1999) with live DJ Aldo Hernandez at
DanceExchange, Birmingham, England; and Butterfly Box #3 (1996) at Mother;
Downtown Arts/Simon Says Festival, New York.
Tolentino collaborated with curious.com to create: Blind; Goodnight Larry Joe (dedicated to Lawrence Steger); and Travels/MapSuit (2001). Video appearances include:
Deserter, curious.com; POSITIVE LIFE—Living with AIDS (c. 1993) with Catherine Gund, Aubin Pictures, New York; and Walking with the Dead, c. 1994 - text for John Killacky.
She has collaborated with sound artists: Aldo Hernandez, F100, Bernard Elsmere, Julie Fowells, Johanna Fateman, as well as with Rob Roth/video.
Julie appeared in Red Hot and Blue's "Safe Sex is Hot Sex" poster and Gran
Fury's national bus campaign "Kissing Doesn't Kill" in the early 1990's. She was
highlighted as a Featured Artist in the the national Gay Games '94 ad
campaigns. She appears in Madonna's SEX Book, as well as editorial pages for
OUT Magazine, Visionnaire, The Pink Pages, DIVA, Tetu Paris, Time Out NY,
UK and numerous others. She has performed in films including works
by Barbara Hammer, Tom Kalin, Ella Troyano/Carmelita Tropicana, as well as
music videos of Diamanda Galas, Primus , Madonna, Chaka Khan
(choreographer: Donna Uchizono). She was original founder and creator of the NY
Clit Club (1990) and created performances at sin-a-matic, Los Angeles; Fetish Ball, Los
Angeles; The Altar, The Cock and Pork, NYC and The Schmidt Theater,
Hamburg, Germany (Six Sex Weeks). She curated a comprehensive
performance video installation at the Film Anthology Archives for the '99 MIX
Gay and Lesbian Experimental Film and Video Festival featuring an international
roster of performance artists' works on video and alternate digital media.
Julie was awarded a Franklin Furnace Performance grant 1999-2000 and international
travel support from Arts international in 2000. FOR YOU (2005)
was created in part with support of an ArtsAdmin Agency Bursary (grant and
residency) in London, UK and the generous support of Participant Inc.
She was awarded a Field Space grant from THE FIELD in New York City in June 2007 for
the creation of a new work.
She trained in Massage Therapy at the Pacific School of Oriental Medicine in NY and was the TA to Ed Lamadrid, LAC and LMT, and the school’s program chair. Julie is certified in Thai Medical Massage and is a Watsu® practitioner. She divides time between New York City and Joshua Tree, California.
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