I recently completed a new video piece for an upcoming exhibition which deals with gun violence in the U.S. The piece is titled “Fading Echo of Numb Decay” – it is a statement on the over saturation, numbness and confusion that is created through the constant barrage of gun violence related reporting in the country. The video slowly melds into a frenzy of noise and flickers that ultimately reveals nothing. This is the first iteration of the video, more will follow as additional video footage is gathered. Stay tuned. 

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Feel free to check out the proposals/commissions page, I am dedicating the page to document successful and unsuccessful projects I’ve done throughout the years. The most recent project has been uploaded, stay tuned for more projects, commissions and proposals.  

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Join us in the gallery as Yousif Del Valle performs the complete drum track from the newly released, limited-edition LP Land Speed Record. A set by his thrash metal band Hate Beast follows.

The limited-edition, clear vinyl LP contains a rendition of Hüsker Dü’s original drum track played by Del Valle and recorded live at 7th St Entry on April 14, 2016. Published by the Walker, the album serves as the catalogue for Larson’s exhibition and includes liner note essays by Walker exhibition curator Siri Engberg, Walker artistic director Fionn Meade, independent curator Dieter Roelstraete, and Rev. Russell Rathbun, founding preacher at St. Paul’s House of Mercy. A separate, deluxe edition of the LP additionally features a color photograph, signed and numbered by Larson, of the salvaged objects from the home of Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart, which are the subject of his film on view in the Walker galleries.

Available in the Walker Shop, this 2016 LP release coincides with the 35th anniversary of Hüsker Dü’s Land Speed Record and Del Valle’s in-gallery performance. Album $19.81 ($17.83 Walker members); deluxe edition $500 ($450).

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An interview for the Soap Factory’s Podcast.

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“Heavy metal demands precision, while punk rock can be suspicious of it,” writes Jeff Severns Guntzel of the challenge Yousif Del Valle faced in learning the entirety of Grant Hart’s drum track for Hüsker Dü’s debut 1981 album. “Metal is cerebral; punk is all heart. Metal is Formula One racing; punk is a demolition derby.” In anticipation of Del Valle’s September 29 in-gallery performance and the release of the limited-edition Chris Larson: Land Speed Record LP that features his drumming, Severns Guntzel looked at the Hate Beast drummer’s process—from computer-visualized sound waves to practice, practice, practice. 

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Article and description of my involvement in Chris Larson and Grant Hart’s ” Land Speed Record” now on display at the Walker Art Center.

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/06/08/walker-art-center-husker-du-landspeed-record-exhibit

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3 x 5 TSF Emerging Artist Residency Program

The Soap Factory
Minneapolis, MN
Residency June 1st – 24th, 2016
Public Opening June 18th, 2016  – 6-10 PM

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