Join interdisciplinary artist Julie Tolentino (jt) and writer/organizer Theodore (ted) Kerr for a conversation and interactive chat forum as an invitation to wander as a community of makers on the outskirts of expectations; to explore approaches, needs and materials; and to share in what haunts our practices.

Julie Tolentino, or JT, is an Filipina-Salvadorean artist whose practice explores durational performance, movement, and sensual practices within installation environments as a way to explore the interstitial spaces of relationality, memory, race, gender, and the archive. Collaborative projects with artists including Stosh Fila, Aldo Hernandez, Abigail Severance, Mark So, and Robert Crouch extend into video, object- and scent-making, soundscapes, and texts drawn from the rich learning spaces of activism, advocacy, loss, and caregiving. Tolentino led queer club spaces such as Clit Club, Tattooed Love Child, and Dagger at various locations in New York City throughout the 1990’s and was a member of ACTUP NY, Art Positive and House of Color Video Collective, and with Cynthia Madansky, co-created the Safer Sex Handbook for Women for Lesbian AIDS Project/GMHC. With Pati Hertling, they re-staged Ellen Cantor’s 1993 Coming To Power: Twenty Five Years of Sexually X-plicit Art By Women, which includes a catalog (I’m Still Coming, Capricious) and performance series (2016). She earned her MFA from the University of California, Riverside. Selected performances and exhibitions include Performance Space New York, NY (2019); EFA Project Space, New York (2019); 6th Annual Thessaloniki Bienniale, Thessaloniki, Greece (2018); the Lab, San Francisco (2018); Manila Contemporary, Philippines (2014); New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE (2013); Theaterworks, Singapore (2013); New Museum, New York (2013); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2010); Participant, Inc, New York (2005); The Kitchen, New York (2000); and queerupnorth, Manchester, UK (1998). Tolentino was featured in Madonna’s SEX book (1992), Red Hot and Blue’s “Safe Sex is Hot Sex” poster series (1991), and Gran Fury’s “Kissing Doesn’t Kill” ad campaign (1989).  Tolentino is the editor of “Provocations” in The Drama Review and has hosted one-to-one and small group artist and writer residencies at the FERAL HOUSE_STUDIO in the Mojave Desert since 2008. 

Theodore (ted) Kerr is a writer, organizer, and founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do?

This event is part of VIRTUAL BODIES, a weekly series of webinar discussions, presentations, and performances featuring artists and curators, hosted by faculty from the Department of the Arts at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. All events are free and open to the public, but require advance registration.

Contact Rafael Muñoz (munoz@newschool.edu) for information about disability access.

Zoom link will be sent in advance of the event.