Evidence (2014)

In evidence Julie Tolentinos naked moving body articulates backward on her hands and knees balancing a cluster of Asian medicine cups The piece originally made in 2010 in collaboration with Abigail Severance was remixed for Visual AIDS in 2014 Tolentinos selfmade sound piece was added and initiates the video with a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 Tolentinos body evidence opens up to the lists potency through a female brown artistactivist body in the unseen yet held spaces of relationship memory sex and loss Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2014 as part of ALTERNATE ENDINGS a program of seven videos that bring together charged moments and memories from their personal perspective amidst the public history of HIVAIDS