In six short years and a sustained blast of creative energy, Implied Violence (IV) has produced more than twenty-six multimedia works of increasing scale and ambition. Seattle audiences familiar with IV’s work will remember visually dense and conceptually rich performances such as Die Wandlung (Center on Contemporary Art, 2006); In Between More and More History (The Smoke Farm, 2007); Come to My Center, You Enter the Winter (The Bridge Motel, 2007); and Our Summary in Sequence: Barley Girl, Versus, and Eat Fight Fuck (801 Aloha, 2008).

In fall 2010 the Frye presents IV’s first museum exhibition, Implied Violence: Yes and More and Yes and Yes and Why. Introducing IV’s key concepts and preoccupations to a broad museum audience, this exhibition will provide an in-depth look at IV’s exploration of altered states, elemental, highly charged materials, and the shifting status of their objects from installation to prop to relic, especially as they manifest themselves in IV’s most ambitious work to date, The Dorothy K, recently presented at the prestigious donaufestival in Krems, Austria.

Yes and More and Yes and Yes and Why will feature sculptures, costumes, props, masks, video- and photo-documentation of selected past performances and a performance created especially for the Frye.

Implied Violence: Yes and More and Yes and Yes and Why is curated by Robin Held, deputy director, exhibitions and collections. The exhibition is organized by the Frye Art Museum with funding from the Frye Foundation.