Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for a new video installation by Chris Larson at the Walker Art Center’s Medtronic Gallery in 2016.
Chris Larson creates ambitious sculptural installations and films with unique narrative structures, often in response to specific sites. The new work, entitled, “Land Speed Record” after a live album by acclaimed 1980s St. Paul punk band Hüsker Dü, focuses on objects and memories left behind from the childhood home of band member Grant Hart, which partially burned down in 2011. (Excerpt and images below selected from grant proposal. All works are copyright of the artist.)
“Unnamed Structure,” 2011, white pine, site specific installation at Walker Art Center as part of the exhibition The Spectacular of Vernacular Inspired by the forms of covered rural bridges, this commission took the form of a bridge on stilts extending between inside and outside spaces of the museum that visitors could climb into. 
“Deep North (House),” 2008, C-Print, 90 x 90 cm. Larson made a series of large-scale photographs based on his film set for “Deep North,” which he built first as a sculpture, then encased in a thick layer of ice. 
“Celebration-Love-Loss,” 2013, wood, cardboard, paper In this site-specific project, Larson constructed a full-scale replica of a 1962 Marcel Breuer house from wood, cardboard and paper, then burned it as a performance for the Twin Cities’ Northern Spark arts festival.