SI is pleased to present a sound performance by multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer Olin Caprison (VIOLENCE) on the occasion of SoiL Thornton’s solo exhibition. For this performance, Caprison presents a hybrid of composed and improvisational work featuring unreleased material. Engaging genre as a malleable structure rather than a fixed identity, the work reconfigures familiar musical and cultural forms to expose the narratives and assumptions embedded within them.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

Olin Caprison is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer working under the name VIOLENCE, whose practice moves fluidly across sound, performance, and conceptual art.

Caprison debuted as VIOLENCE in 2010. In 2012, they were featured on Blasting Voice, a Teenage Teardrops compilation, before releasing a limited-run EP with Steak au Zoo Records and touring Europe that summer. In 2015, VIOLENCE appeared on C-ORE, curated by Mykki Blanco for DogFood Music Group, followed by tours alongside Mykki Blanco and Yves Tumor. In 2016, they released A Ruse of Power with NON Worldwide.

Following several tours, Caprison shifted toward collaborative projects, working with Kandis Williams and the Forsythe Company’s Josh Johnson on Affect: Network:Territory, as well as with director Richard Kennedy. In 2017, VIOLENCE released Human Dust to Fertilize the Impotent Garden with the New York-based label PTP. Two EU/USA tours followed, including performances at Sonic Acts Academy(Amsterdam), Click Festival (Denmark), MACBA (Barcelona), MoMA PS1, and the Brooklyn Museum. In 2021, VIOLENCE performed with Kerstin Brätsch at the Athens Biennale and composed scores for A Field by Kandis Williams, presented at ICA Virginia and the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 2022, they released a self-titled album with Precious Metals and toured China and Japan, with additional performances across the US and EU. In 2023, they released a limited-run vinyl with the Cologne-based gallery JUBG and performed at SculptureCenter in New York. Since 2024, their practice has shifted toward collaborative, cross-disciplinary work. Caprison is a recipient of the MacDowell Fellowship (2019), the NTS WIP award (2020), and the Baldwin for the Arts Fellowship (2022).