Julie Tolentino, THE SKY REMAINS THE SAME: Archiving Lovett/Codagnone’s WEIGHTED (Three Cycles), 2025 Performers: Stosh Fila aka Pigpen, Lauren Bakst, Kris Lee Original Voices: Jim Fletcher, Jenny Schlenzka Original Arrangement: Michele Pauli Friday, November 14, 9pm (duration 1+ hour) Participant Inc at SALMA SARRIEDINE 116 Elizabeth Street, floor 3

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of PERFORMA, PARTICIPANT INC presents two performances by Julie Tolentino: an archiving of the work, WEIGHTED, 2010, by Lovett/Codagnone, and the premiere of a new work, 1000 Cuts. Made in collaboration with Stosh Fila aka Pigpen and vocalist Kyle Kidd aka Motherboard, with lighting design by Sarai Frazier, the performance’s afterlife is an installation, on view through November 30, 2025.

Archivist Tara Hart titled their essay on Tolentino’s THE SKY REMAINS THE SAME with a question, “How Do You Archive the Sky?” noting, “In her work, Tolentino challenges the traditional ontology of the archive — and its basis in documents….” Serving as “archivist and archive,” “a medium and container of record,” Tolentino produces “‘a map of body- specific, contextual, and practical differences between each performance and its archive,’ suggesting that the contents of performance archives ‘should not be valued for how closely they resemble the thing they seek to preserve, but for their fidelity to delineate difference.’” With THE SKY REMAINS THE SAME, invited collaborators, bound by individual contracts, choose work from their own performance history to archive onto Tolentino’s body, as an extension of their intersecting practices, and seeking to complicate the methods behind performance making and its records. Tolentino — via THE SKY’s somatic recording of the imprints of others — asks the disintegrating body to hold, transform, and correlate time as archives of emotion along intergenerational lines, a refusal of loss. Here, we’re talking about a timeline — THE SKY REMAINS THE SAME — written on and through Tolentino’s bodies of work, crafted and improvised as physical archives in jagged temporalities.

Participant Inc at SALMA SARRIEDINE 116 Elizabeth Street, floor 3