SÉANCE: ALBERT VON KELLER AND THE OCCULT + IMPLIED VIOLENCE: YES AND MORE AND YES AND YES AND WHY
Last Tuesday a small group of Blackbird people headed to the Frye Art Museum in Seattle for their Tea and Tour event which featured the works of Albert von Keller, a Swiss-born painter with an mysterious obsession for the other side of the spiritual world, and Implied Violence, an artist group that performs live works where people are drugged, leached, bound and taken beyond reality.
For $5 we were treated an informative two-hour guided walking tour followed by tea, cookies and a chat with the show's curator. Of course, we stood out in the crowd with our dressed in black with shaved heads kind of mystery to contrast the sweater-set wearing silver haired elder art ladies and a single dirty old man who scared and entertained us with his muffled commentary on every nude painting in the show.
We were most impressed when the show's curator came out to tell us more about Implied Violence, and proceeded to enchant us with her dark curly locks and Rick Owens ensemble while detailing the use of leaches, bondage and aether in their performances.
We were most impressed when the show's curator came out to tell us more about Implied Violence, and proceeded to enchant us with her dark curly locks and Rick Owens ensemble while detailing the use of leaches, bondage and aether in their performances.
Let's not forget the art. Both shows were outstanding with their common theme of innocence and experimentation with darkness, human power and the unknown. After the tea, we headed back to the galleries to look deeper into the swirling brushstrokes that seem to tell us that something from beyond was present in the room. We could have stayed all day.
The Fry Art Museum is free and open every day except Monday.
More events at The Frye you might be interested in:
October 28th
6:30 pm
Georg Braungart, Department of German, University of Tübingen, Germany
Frye Auditorium (FREE)
Frye Auditorium (FREE)
October 30th
2 pm
David Hufford, M.A.; Susan Radant, Ph.D.; and Kathy Weissbourd, Ph.D.
Frye Art Studio, Galleries (FREE)
David Hufford, M.A.; Susan Radant, Ph.D.; and Kathy Weissbourd, Ph.D.
Frye Art Studio, Galleries (FREE)
