ALTERNATE ENDINGS is a new video program for the 25th anniversary of Day With(out) Art featuring provocative work about the ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic, focusing on the issues of today.

On December 1, 1989, Visual AIDS organized the first Day With(out) Art—a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. To honor the 25th year of Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS is commissioning seven artists/collaboratives—Rhys Ernst, Glen Fogel, Lyle Ashton Harris,Derek Jackson, Tom Kalin, My Barbarian, and Julie Tolentino/Abigail Severance—to create new short videos to be screened internationally on/around December 1, 2014. Visual AIDS is partnering with approximately fifty sponsoring organizations and hosting venues to distribute ALTERNATE ENDINGS internationally. Dates and locations for additional screenings will be announced here soon.

ALTERNATE ENDINGS highlights the diverse voices of seven artists that use video to bring together charged moments and memories from their personal perspective amidst the public history of HIV/AIDS.

The short videos in ALTERNATE ENDINGS use a mix of found footage, live performance, still photos, and robotic cameras to weave together connections between personal stories and public memories. They share tales of love and breakups, sing songs of defiance, celebrate action, and remember those whom we have lost. Through these diverse stories we are invited to reflect upon our complex past as we envision divergent narratives and possibilities for the future, because AIDS IS NOT OVER.

Tom Kalin, Ashes, 2014

For Ashes, Tom Kalin photographed thousands of high resolution still images and "stitched" them into a moving image. While borrowing library books for research on another project, Kalin discovered, glued to the endpapers, ordinary "due date" ledgers stamped with dates spanning three decades. Inspired by these tiny ledgers—like skin or palimpsests that recorded an analogue history, an accumulation of many gestures—Kalin combines quotidian pictures snatched from his daily life with an evocative musical track by ongoing collaborator Doveman (Thomas Bartlett). The film layers dates and moments from Kalin's personal world with the public and global history of AIDS.

Rhys Ernst, Dear Lou Sullivan, 2014

This new work by LA-based artist Rhys Ernst invokes the story of Lou Sullivan, trans man and AIDS activist largely responsible for establishing the distinction between gender identity and sexual orientation. Cut with images of Ernst’s own examination of this figure and trans history, the video is structured by the search for and desire to identify transmasculine elders and an intergenerational exploration of gay transmasculine identity. Utilizing interview footage, excerpts of Sullivan’s book “Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual," VHS gay porn, and Grindr chats, Dear Lou Sullivan is a meditation on the life of the late trans man and AIDS activist that explores the bodily intersection of transmasculine gay and HIV+ identity.

My Barbarian, Counterpublicity, 2014

My Barbarian's Counterpublicity is a staged video performance based on an essay about Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist and star of the Real World: San Francisco, written by José Esteban Muñoz in his book, “Disidentifications.” The three members of My Barbarian re-perform scenes from The Real World in an alienated style, resisting the affect of "reality tv" even as they interrogate its politics, contrasting these scenes with the embodied performance of 90s-inspired music videos, with lyrics adapted from Muñoz's theory of Queer counterpublic spheres that operate against the dominance of racism and homophobia.

Julie Tolentino/Abigail Severance, evidence, 2014

In evidence, Julie Tolentino’s naked, moving body articulates backward on her hands and knees, balancing a cluster of Asian medicine cups. The piece, originally made in 2010 in collaboration with Abigail Severance, was remixed for Visual AIDS in 2014. Tolentino's self-made sound piece was added and initiates the video with a queer list of loved ones living and lost, recognizable or not, as both invocation and provocation of individuals who deeply shifted her perspective. As the listed names blur and are archived in Tolentino's body, evidence opens up to the list's potency through a female, brown, artist/activist body in the unseen yet held spaces of relationship, memory, sex and loss.

Hi Tiger, The Village, 2014

Hi Tiger, the Portland, Maine based art-punk band fronted by visual artist and performer Derek Jackson, recreates the song "The Village" by New Order. Originally, New Order recorded the song as an upbeat new wave tune in 1982. With Hi Tiger's re-imagining some 30 years later, The Village becomes a torch song that meditates on themes of love and loss, complicity and defiance. In the context of HIV and AIDS, the song becomes a love letter to those that have passed and a call to arms for the ones who remain.

Lyle Ashton Harris, Selections from the Ektachrome Archive, 2014

Lyle Ashton Harris' Selections from the Ektachrome Archive 1986–1996 is a snapshot from 1986–1996, chronicling the moments—now memories—of this charged decade. This selection features over one hundred images taken by Harris from his extensive archive of Ektachrome photographs. Harris captures creatives and intellectuals including Nan Goldin, Samuel R Delaney, Stuart Hall, Essex Hemphill, bell hooks, Isaac Julien, Catherine Opie and Marlon Riggs among others in both intimate settings as well as now-historic events such as the Black Popular Culture Conference (1991), the opening for the Whitney’s landmark Black Male exhibition (1994), and his travels from New York to London and Los Angeles to Rome. In Selections from the Ektachrome Archive 1986–1996, bedroom scenes and personal mementos punctuate public presentations and social gatherings, as a register of Harris' life during the height of the AIDS crisis and its impact. Moreover, this archive takes the temperature of America’s recent past and charts its radical epistemological shifts.

Glen Fogel, 7 Years Later, 2014

For 7 Years Later, Glen Fogel visited his ex-boyfriend Nathan Lee in Providence, RI and videotaped a conversation between the two of them. They discuss the events that led to their breakup 7 years ago, while a robotic camera autonomously scans the apartment. The videos is edited to look as though it is a seamless single take, a time warp in which Fogel and Lee appear in multiple places in the apartment at the same time.

Post-screening discussion videos:

SVA Theatre featuring Amy Taubin, Tom Kalin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Derek Jackson and Wanda Hernandez-Parks

New Museum featuring Glen Fogel, My Barbarian (Alexandro Segade, Jade Gordon, and Malik Gaines) and Tom Kalin.

Read reviews:

Unanticipated Alternate Endings, Media Praxis

A New Generation of Art for a New Generation of HIV, Art F City

Alternate Endings (Interview with Tom Kalin & Derek Jackson), A&U

What’s Your Alternate Ending?, Filthy Dreams

New York City, NY

★ SVA Theatre (333 W 23rd St, NY NY 10011), Monday December 1, 7pm, Screening Premiere Event with a post-screening discussion featuring Tom Kalin, Lyle Ashton Harris and Derek Jackson of Hi Tiger as well as Wanda Hernandez-Parks (VOCAL-NY), moderated by Amy Taubin (website)

BRIC (647 Fulton Street at Rockwell Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217), Monday December 1, 1-6pm, Looping Gallery Presentation (website)

Hunter College (The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, 68th Street & Lexington Ave., SW Corner, NY NY 10065), Monday December 1, 1–6pm, Looping Gallery Presentation

New School (66 West 12th Street, Room 510, NY NY 10011), Thursday December 4, 8pm, Screening Event with Q&A led by Visual AIDS Programs Manager Alex Fialho (website)

★ New Museum (235 Bowery, NY NY 10002), Friday December 5, 7pm, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion featuring My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade), Glen Fogel, and Tom Kalin (website)

Queens Museum (NYC Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368), Saturday December 6, 12–5:30 pm, Looping Projection in Queens Museum Theater with an accompanying series of bilingual English/Spanish workshops, presentations, performances and discussions featuring: QM Queens Teens in collaboration with HIV Educators and Artists from GrenAIDS Cristobal Guerra and Cassidy Gardner; GrenAIDS vogueing artist Kia Labeija; Media scholar and memory activist Julian de Mayo Rodriguez and journalist Luis Gallo; artist Camilo Godoy moderating a conversation with 4 HIV+ Latin@ immigrants; HIV Testing with Voces Latinas (website)

★ Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238), Saturday December 6, 8:30pm, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion featuring Derek Jackson of Hi Tiger and Glen Fogel in conjunction with First Saturdays (website)

★ Studio Museum in Harlem in conjunction with Columbia University School of the Arts (144 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027), Sunday December 7, 4pm, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion featuring Tom Kalin and Lyle Ashton Harris (website)

★ includes discussion with filmmakers and related Visual AIDS programming

Abu Dhabi, United Arab

Emirates NYU Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Monday December 1st, 6PM, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion with Debra Levine, Assistant Professor of Theater, NYU Abu Dhabi in conjunction with the Anchorage Society.

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (30 Campus Road, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504), Monday December 1, 10am–6pm, Video Gallery, Looping Presentation

Ashland, OR

Southern Oregon University - Diversions in the Stevenson Union (1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR 97520), Monday December 1, 10–4pm, Looping Presentation

Athens, OH

LGBT Center, Ohio University (354 Baker University Center, Athens, OH 45701), Monday December 1, 5pm, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion led by LGBT Center Director Delfin Bautista

Bloomington, IN

Indiana University in conjunction with the Kinsey Institute and Health & Wellness Education, Indiana University Health Center (Woodburn 100, Bloomington, IN 47405), Monday December 1, 4pm, Screening Event and presentations by Doug Bauder, GLBT Student Support Services Director and Positive Link (website)

Boulder, CO

University of Colorado Art Museum (1085 18th St. Boulder, CO 80309), Monday–Friday December 1–5, 10am–5pm, Balcony Looping Gallery Presentation

Buffalo, NY

112 Center for the Arts (State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260), Tuesday December 2, 7pm, Screening Event introduced by Jonathan D. Katz; Co-Sponsored by the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Queer Art Lecture Series, The Department of Media Study Center for Global Media, Squeaky Wheel, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, and the Queer Studies Research Workshop.

Claremont, CA

Scripps College (Humanities Auditorium, Claremont, CA 91711), Tuesday December 2, 7pm, Screening Event sponsored by the Queer Resource Center of The Claremont Colleges

Columbus, OH

Student Life Multicultural Center (Ohio Union Suite 1000, 1739 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43210), Monday December 1, 8pm, Screening Event with a post-discussion featuring local resources

Chicago, IL

The Nightingale (1084 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642), Monday December 1, 7pm, Screening Event (website)

Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (33 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60603), Monday December 1, 11 am–6 pm, Looping Gallery Presentation

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N. Harwood, Dallas, TX 75201), Thursday December 4, 7pm, Screening Event (website)

SMU, Meadows School of the Arts, Doolin Gallery (6101 Bishop Blvd, Dallas, TX) Monday December 1, 1–5pm. Looping Gallery Presentation

Davidson, NC

Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College (315 N Main St, Davidson, NC 28036), Tuesday December 2, 11am, Common Hour Screening Event, Semans Lecture Hall, Belk Visual Art Center

Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (2001 Campus Dr., Durham, NC 27701), Thursday December 4, 7pm, Screening Event

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh College of Art (Minto House, 20-22 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JZ), Monday December 1, 1pm, Screening event introduced by Fiona Anderson (Department of History of Art)

Fort Worth, TX

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107), Wednesday December 3, 2 pm, Screening Event with a post-screening spotlight tour of works in Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s (website)

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts (2900 W. Berry St., Fort Worth, TX 76109), Monday December 1, 5-7pm, Looping Gallery Presentation (website)

Hartford, CT

Real Art Ways (56 Arbor St #1, Hartford, CT 06106), Monday December 1, Looping Gallery Presentation (website)

Houston, TX

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (5216 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX 77006), Tuesday–Sunday December 2–7, Museum hours, Looping Elevator Presentation

DiverseWorks (4102 Fannin St, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77004), December 3–20, 12–6pm, Looping Gallery Presentation

Istanbul, Turkey

Space Debris Art (Kemankes Mah., Hoca Tahsin Sok. No:15, Floor 1, Karakoy ISTANBUL, Turkey) Monday December 1, 7:30pm Screening Event + Monday–Wednesday December 1–3, 12–7pm, Looping Gallery Presentation (website)

Ithaca, NY

LGBT Resource Center, Cornell University (3rd Floor, 626 Thurston), Monday December 1 – Resource Center Lounge in the Center for Intercultural Dialogue – All Day Looping Gallery Presentation

Ithaca College LGBT Center (953 Danby Road ithaca NY 14850) Monday December 1, Noon and 4 pm, Screening Events

Kansas City, MO

The Charlotte Street Foundation's Project Space Gallery (21 E. 12th St., Kansas City, MO 64106), Monday December 1, 6pm, Screening Event with a presentation by Jonathan D. Barnett (Artist & Co-Founder, ACTUP Kansas City) (website)

Los Angeles, CA

The Museum of Contemporary Art (250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles CA 90012), Thursday December 4, 7pm, Screening Event co-presented with Outfest UCLA Legacy Project and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, with a post-screening discussion led by author Alex Juhasz (website)

Loyola Marymount University (1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045), Thursday December 4, 12:15 p.m., Screening Event for faculty, staff and students in the Office of LGBT Student Services.

Lincoln, NE

Sheldon Museum of Art in conjunction with the GBTQA+ Resource Center at the University of Nebraska Lincoln (Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, 451 N. 12th Street, Lincoln, NE), Tuesday December 2, 5:30pm, Screening Event

Milwaukee, WI

Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival @ Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (4th Floor Screening Room, MIAD, 273 E. Erie, Milwaukee, WI 53202), Monday, December 1, 7pm, Screening Event

Memphis, TN

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (1934 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN 38104), Thursday December 4, 10am–8pm, Looping Gallery Presentation

Montreal, Canada

Institute of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University (3487 Peel St., Montreal, QC, H3A 1W7), December 5, 12:30 pm-4:30 pm, Looping Presentation.

New Haven, CN

Yale University (Linsly Chittenden Hall, Room 102, New Haven, CT 06520), Monday December 1, 8:30pm, Screening Event.

New Orleans, LA

New Orleans Wellness Center (507 Frenchman Street, New Orleans, LA 70116), Monday, December 1, 7:30 PM, Screening with a post-screening discussion (website)

Orange, CA

Chapman University (Argyros Forum 119A, One University Drive Orange, CA 92866), Tuesday December 2, 2pm, Screening Event in a room where 5 panels of the Names Project: AIDS Memorial Quilt will be displayed.

Peterborough, Canada

ARTSPACE (378 Aylmer St. N, Peterborough ON, K9H 3V8), Wednesday December 3, 7pm, Screening Event presented with Trent Film Society and Peterborough AIDS Resource Network (PARN).

Pittsburgh, PA

The Andy Warhol Museum (117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212), Sunday, November 30, 10–5pm, Looping Presentation in theater (website)

Philadelphia, PA

LGBT Center (3907 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA), Monday December 1, 6pm, Screening Event

Portland, ME

Zero Station (222 Anderson St, Portland, ME 04101), December 5, 7 PM, Screening Event with a post-screening discussion and performance by artist Derek Jackson of Hi Tiger

Portland, OR

Pacific Northwest College of Art (1241 NW Johnson St, Portland, OR 97209), Monday December 1, 12:30pm, Screening Event in the Commons

Portland State University Smith Memorial Union (1825 SW Broadway Ste. 333, Portland OR 97201), Monday December 1, 12pm, HIV/AIDS Timeline Activity followed by Screening Event

Providence, RI

AS220 (95 Empire Black Box, Providence, RI), Monday December 1, 8pm, Screening Event presented by Headmaster Magazine (website)

San Francisco, CA

Center for Sex and Culture (1349 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103), Sunday November 30, 2 pm, Screening + Reading with Carol Queen, Patrick Mulcahey, Buzz Bense + archive materials on display (website)

Magnet (Gay/Bi Men’s Health Clinic in the Castro | 4122 18th Street San Francisco, CA 94114), Monday December 1, 10–6pm, Looping Gallery Presentation

St. Louis, MO

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Blvd, St Louis, MO 63108), Friday December 5, 7:00 pm, Screening Event in the mezzanine (website)

Toronto, Canada

V-tape (401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452 Toronto, Ontario), Monday December 1, Screenings at noon, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, Limited seating RSVP your preferred time to info@vtape.org (website)

Valencia, CA

CalArts (Bijou Theatre, Valencia, CA 91355), Monday December 1, 1pm. Screening Event and discussion (website)

Virginia Beach, VA

Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (2200 Parks Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA 23451), Tuesday December 2, 7pm, Screening Event, Price Auditorium. Exhibitions are also free and open to the public from 5-9pm for this event. (website)

Washington, D.C.

Transformer (1404 P Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005), Monday December 1, Noon–Midnight, Storefront Looping Presentation

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Artist Bio:

Rhys Ernst is a filmmaker and artist who works across narrative and experimental film, photography, animation, and mixed-media, utilizing various forms and modalities to investigate masculinity, transgender identity and the intersection of gender and narrative construction. Ernst received his MFA in Film/ Video at CalArts in 2011 and a BA from Hampshire College in 2004. His MFA thesis film THE THING premiered at Sundance 2012 and his collaborative film with Zackary Drucker, SHE GONE ROGUE, premiered at the 2012 “Made in LA” Los Angeles Biennial at the Hammer Museum. Past exhibitions and screenings include the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Oberhausen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and in Los Angeles at UCLA Hammer Museum, REDCAT, and LACE. He lives in Los Angeles.

Glen Fogel is an artist living and working in New York. Solo exhibitions include Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2013), Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (2013), Aspect Ratio, Chicago (2013), Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2012), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2011), Participant Inc., New York (2011), The Kitchen, New York (2008), and Momenta Art, New York (2006). Group exhibitions include Coming After at The Power Plant, Toronto (2011), A Word Like Tomorrow Wear Things Out at Sikkema Jenkins, New York (2010), Log Cabin at Artists Space, New York (2006), and The Whitney Biennial, New York (2002). Fogel’s film and video work has screened widely at venues including The Toronto International Film Festival, The London International Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Images Festival, Toronto, Chicago Filmmakers, and Anthology Film Archives, New York.

Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media, collage, installation and performance. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Known for his self-portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), Harris teases the viewers’ perceptions and expectations, resignifying cultural cursors and recalibrating the familiar with the extraordinary. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the 52nd Venice Biennale. His work has been acquired by major international museums, most recently by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His commissioned work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker. In 2014 Harris joined the board of trustees at the American Academy in Rome and was named the 10th recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Born in New York City, Harris spent his formative years in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. He received his Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Wesleyan University in 1988 and a Masters in Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 1990. He currently lives and works in New York City and is an Associate Professor at New York University.

Derek Jackson is a visual artist and front man of the Portland, Maine based art-punk band Hi Tiger. He is the founder and creative director of Hung Magazine, published by Sur Rodney (Sur) and a member of the gogocuntrypunkmashupelectrohouse ensemble Daisy Spurs. His work was most recently featured in a video program at CRG Gallery curated by Angela Dufresne and is included in the exhibition "Framing AIDS" curated by Hector Canonge at the Queens Museum of Art. Jackson is a recipient of numerous awards including: the Brooklyn Arts Council, The Djerassi Artist Residency Program, and Momenta Arts. He is a graduate of the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts as well as the City University of New York at Brooklyn College.

Tom Kalin is known as a prominent figure in the New Queer Cinema. His critically acclaimed work traverses diverse forms, including experimental films, video installations and narrative feature films. In these works and as a member of the activist collective Gran Fury, Kalin has done significant work to change public opinion of AIDS. Named one of the top 100 American Independent films by the BFI, his first feature, Swoon, was awarded Berlin's Caligari Prize, Stockholm's Fipresci Prize, Sundance's Best Cinematography and the Gotham Awards''Open Palm'. His feature Savage Grace premiered in Cannes, played opening night in Zurich and screened at festivals including Sundance, Karlovy Vary, London and Tribeca. It was nominated for a Spirit Award and named one of the top ten films of 2008 by Artforum and Paper. As a producer his features include I Shot Andy Warhol and Go Fish. He was a writer of Cindy Sherman's Office Killer. He has also created shorts and installations including They are lost to vision altogether, Geoffrey Beene 30, Plain Pleasures, Third Known Nest, Every Wandering Cloud, Behold Goliath, Incontinent and My Silent One. Kalin was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. He has twice been included in the Whitney Biennial.

My Barbarian is a Los Angeles based collaborative group consisting of Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade. The trio makes site-responsive performances and video installations that use theatrical play to draw allegorical narratives out of historical dilemmas, mythical conflicts, and current political crises. My Barbarian had solo exhibitions with Steve Turner Contemporary in Los Angeles (2008, 2009) and at Participant, Inc. in New York (2009). In 2008, the group made a collaborative exhibition with the sculptor Lara Schnitger at Museum Het Domain, Sittard, NL, which, in 2009, traveled to the Luckman Gallery in Los Angeles. Since 2004, My Barbarian has shown work in group exhibitions and/or performance programs at venues including REDCAT; LACMA; Hammer Museum; LAXART; Schindler House; LACE; Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles; New Museum; Whitney Museum; Studio Museum in Harlem; Participant, Inc.; P.S.1; Joe's Pub; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; MOCA, Miami; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Aspen Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Estacion Tijuana & Lui Velazquez, Tijuana Mexico; The Power Plant, Toronto; De Appel, Amsterdam; Peres Projects, Berlin; Torpedo, Oslo; El Matadero, Madrid; Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy; Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo. My Barbarian was included in the 2005 and 2007 Performa Biennials, the 2006 and 2008 California Biennials, the 2007 Montreal Biennial, and the 2009 Baltic Triennial. The group has made two full-length albums of music from its performances: Cloven Soft-Shoe (2004) and California Sweet & the 7 Pagan Rights (2008). Gaines (b. 1973, Visalia, California) received a B.A. in History from UCLA (1996) and an MFA in Writing from Cal Arts' School of Critical Studies (1999) and is a faculty member in the School of Theater at Cal Arts. Gordon (b. 1975, Santa Rosa, California) received a BA in Theater at USC (2008) and teaches at the Stella Adler School in Los Angeles. Segade (b. 1973, San Diego, California) received a BA in English from UCLA (1996), studied in the School of Film and Television at USC (1997–1998), received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from UCLA (2009), and also currently works as a solo artist.

Julie Tolentino’s career spans over two decades of dance, installation, and site-specific durational performance. Her diverse roles have included host, producer, mentor, and collaborator with artists such as Meg Stuart, Ron Athey, Madonna, Catherine Opie, David Rousseve, Juliana Snapper, Diamanda Galàs, Stosh Fila, Robert Crouch, Elana Mann, Mark So, Gran Fury, and Rodarte. Tolentino is deeply influenced by her extensive experience as a caregiver, an Eastern and aquatic bodyworker, a highly disciplined contemporary dancer, and as proprietress of Clit Club in New York. Her manifold, exploratory duet/solo practice includes installation, dance-for-camera, and durational performance engaging improvisation one-to-one score-making and fluids, including blood, tears, and honey. As an extension of her practice after twenty-five years in New York City, she designed and built a solar-powered live–work residency in the Mohave Desert called FERAL House and Studio, where she explores the remote forms of physical inquiry through landscape and texts. She has received numerous grants and fellowships. She is currently the editor of Provocations in the Drama Review-TDR (MIT Press). Her works have been commissioned by The Kitchen, Participant Inc., Invisible Exports, Performa ’05 and '13, and in the UK by Spill Festival, Tramway, DanceExchange, and queerupnorth. Recent tours include England, Europe, Myanmar, the Philippines (at Manila Contemporary and Green Papaya Gallery), and Theaterworks in Singaporeas well as Broad Art Space at University California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Commonwealth & Council, Honor Fraser, PSI19 at Stanford, Perform Chinatown, Install Weho, Cypress College, USC Ecotone, the New Museum, Radical Archives/NYU and YBCA In-Community project. (Special thanks to Abigail Severance & Juvenal Cisneros)