We are excited to announce our new collaboration with Hamilton-Selway!

Hamilton-Selway has a selection of Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young limited edition art prints available online! look HERE

Join us! save the dates!

Thursday, April 6 at 4 pm. Artist Talk!

Thursday, April 6 at 5pm – Pop up at First Thursday –  Fallen Fruit Magazine!

Saturday, April 8 at Second Saturday. 10 am – 12 pm- Lemonade stand! 

Thursday, April 6 at 4 pm. Artist Talk!  –CULTIVATING COMMUNITY WITH FALLEN FRUIT

Artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young, the collaborative duo behind the artworks of Fallen Fruit, present a survey of projects that explore material, meaning, and geographical knowledge. Currently they are installing a community garden at the Nevada Museum of Art called “Monument to Sharing.” The artists consider “the public realm” as their primary artistic medium, and the artworks of Fallen Fruit investigates collaborative communities and the boundaries of public spaces through mapping fruit trees in urban areas and interrogating historical public archives. Fallen Fruit has exhibited internationally, including notable projects for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery Victoria in Melbourne, Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, amongst others. Join us in a conversation with the artists as we explore ways in which the community can inform ideas of place and a sense of connectedness in our capacity to share the world with others.

Thursday, April 6 at 5pm – – Pop up at First Thursday Fallen Fruit Magazine

Make a collaborative magazine about the Great Basin with artists David Burns and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit using collage making and storytelling. Everyone is welcome!

Saturday April 8- Lemonade stand! 

“Lemonade Stand”, a public participatory artwork by Fallen Fruit explores ideas of temporary community and new forms of public. In exchange for a cold glass of organic lemonade, participants are asked to create self-portraits using black ink markers on lemons and to share stories of sadness and disappointment, or happiness and positive self-reflection.

The lemon self-portraits will collectively form a group portrait of everyone who participated, illustrating some of the archetypes that construct community. Additionally, as participants are asked to record stories about neighborhood and family, the Lemonade Stand will activate the phrase… “when life gives you lemons…”

BANANA HOTLINE

a participatory project by Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young,

Instructions (read Carefully)

Hold the banana.
Close Your eyes.
Center yourself.
As you connect with the banana allow a question,
a childhood memory, personal story, dream,
feeling, wish or request to come to mind.
Take a deep breath and press record.

Banana Hotline will translate our voices
into a living monument of sound.

ps. If you ask the banana a question,
your answer will come by morning.
Be prepared with pen and paper
and share your answers.

send us a link to your sound or video files or mail to [email protected]

originally commissioned by Ted Active, 2013, Read about our project at TED Active 2013

Acknowledging that food systems and the environment are intrinsically connected, with modern-day modes of consumption having a profound effect on climate change, Terasaki reconsiders how society can balance culinary habits with the natural world. Food as a means to create positive change has long been a captivating idea for the Honolulu-based artist.

Sacred Conversations happen everyday. Between a mother and child, a grown man and his father, a friend consoling another friend, a teacher and a student, and more. These small conversations shape our lives, inform how we love, expand our feelings, galvanize the world around us. It is these small moments of intimacy and trust that locks an experience into an understanding for a lifetime. They shape our character. They embolden our moral ethics. They enhance our ability for compassion towards others. It is said that the last one of these kinds of conversations you experienced is, in fact, the last sacred conversation you needed to have. In this way, it is a kind of blessing.

Created for Accademia Carrara, Sacred Conversations is an immersive artwork installation for the stairwell that connects the galleries of the historic museum. The artwork is sourced from hundreds of original photographs taken by the artists that include details from paintings, drawing, and etchings from the permanent collection. Along with documentation from the streets, parks, and piazzas of the city of Bergamo that include a variety of local fruits, flowers, birds, religious icons, and more. The title of the artwork ‘Sacred Conversations’ invokes a message about how the past relates to the present and often informs the future. And also, how sometimes in our lives, we travel from a place of darkness into light.

The artists explain that “‘The artwork is about the ritual of “place.” A type of consciousness celebrating everything everyday. The walking. The hellos. The arrivadecis. The thank yous and the welcomes. Bergamo is a continual fountain of greetings all throughout the day. In the piazzas, palazzos, the parks, the walking streets, the monuments, the cafes, the cathedrals, and on and on…”.

The collection at Accademia Carrara is often spiritual, and as artists, we became holistically inspired by the work of Lorenzo Lotto as well as the compassionate perspective of the entire collection. We spent many days exploring Carrara’s galleries and archives and photographed details. We looked for everyday objects in the collection – fruits, flowers, small animals, people’s hands, insects, pollinators, and more. These common elements of everyday life seem to form a bridge from the past into the present that connects all of us in our own unique pathway along the sacred journey of our lives. 

To create this artwork, we immersed ourselves in the city of Bergamo. We walked all of the streets and alleys of the old city on the hill called “Citta Alta.” We explored cathedrals, monasteries, castles, parks, cafes, and libraries. We met with the city’s historians, and we toured the streets and historic buildings with expert guides. We photographed things that stand out in public spaces. We documented elements from the historic library, the cathedrals, the opera house, the botanical gardens, and details throughout Bergamo.   

“This site specific artwork from our exploration of Bergamo considers the architecture of the building as the frame. The artwork itself becomes an experience for the visitor – a journey from darkness to light or from night into day. The visitor is the subject or protagonist. This is a type of metaphor for an everyday journey – and also a spiritual journey.,” says the artists’.

Our new artwork created for Accademia Carrara, Sacred Conversations is an immersive artwork installation for the stairwell that connects the galleries of the historic museum. The artwork is sourced from hundreds of original photographs taken by the artists that include details from paintings, drawing, and etchings from the permanent collection. Along with documentation from the streets, parks, and piazzas of the city of Bergamo that include a variety of local fruits, flowers, birds, religious icons, and more. The title of the artwork ‘Sacred Conversations’ invokes a message about how the past relates to the present and often informs the future. And also, how sometimes in our lives, we travel from a place of darkness into light.

The city as a common good

September 23 through October 23, 2022

Fallen Fruit’s Monument to Sharing will be a part of the Timisoara Architecture Biennial in Romania.

MORE INFO: HERE

Beta 2022 focuses on The City as a Common Good, in an attempt to investigate the personal relationship that each of us has with the urban space in which we live and manifest. In this sense, Beta comes with concrete tools that encourage the public to become more active and to claim, along with the responsibility, their right to the city.

The general theme of this year’s edition is approached from different perspectives throughout the biennial – in a wide range of formats, some classic, others informal or experimental, like the main exhibition – Another Breach in the Wall – curated by Daniel Tudor Munteanu și Davide Tommaso Ferrando, which will be dedicated especially to the citizens.

Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate
NOW AT The Museum of the City of New York – Includes art by Fallen Fruit!

Now on view

What’s for breakfast, lunch, or dinner? What we eat is one of the most important decisions we make every day. Food in New York explores the city’s raucous restaurant scene; its ubiquitous street food; current activist efforts to source food locally; and the artists, thinkers, and designers who are imagining new sustainable ways to relate to food. Get a glimpse of the exhibition and hear from MCNY Curator Monxo López and Consulting Curator Fabio Parasecoli on Pix 11. First developed at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and now adapted and updated to look at eating and food systems in the Big Apple, the exhibition is an invitation to feast for a more equitable and exciting future.

In the News
Read more about this exhibition in The New York Times, 6sqft, and TimeOut New York. The latter also listed the exhibition as one of the best things to do in NYC this weekend. Follow the story and connect with us @MuseumOfCityNY. Add your New York food story to the exhibition with #FoodInNYC.

Exhibition created by the V&A and the Museum of the City of New York. 

September 1, 2022 – September 1, 2030

The Fallen Fruit Collective, composed of artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young, has been commissioned to create a large-scale public work of art entitled Monument to Sharing. The installation and renovation of the Wilbur D. May Sculpture Plaza are the first of a multi-phased Museum expansion scheduled for completion in early 2025.

Monument to Sharing involves planting approximately twenty-one fruit-bearing trees, a berry patch and a series of edible pollinators that the public is welcome to “harvest,” inviting guests to explore ideas of generosity, agricultural production and the meaning behind “community.”

According to the artists, pieces of “fallen fruit” can connect us in interesting ways: “We believe everyone is a collaborator in making something special – even the stranger or passerby. We believe that ‘artwork’ has a ‘resonant effect.’ Fruit is a universal gift to humanity and fruit is always political.” Both interactive and collaborative, Monument to Sharing is a unique expression of local history—especially the region’s agricultural heritage. The artists encourage guests to gently pick the fruit they need, while leaving enough to share with others.

Fallen Fruit was originally conceived in 2004 by Matias Viegener, Burns and Young. Since 2013, Burns and Young have continued the collaborative work. The collective began creating interactive installations for a project in Los Angeles for which they created maps of what the artists called “public fruit,” or fruit trees that grew over public property. The artists use cartography and geography to create serialized and site-specific works that embrace public participation. These include photographic portraits, experimental documentary videos, public art installation, exhibition projects and a community-contributed magazine specific to the installation. Using fruit — and public spaces — as a method of exploring the familiar, the collective Fallen Fruit encourages all of us to change the way we see the world.

Other public fruit parks include The Endless Orchard, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Weinland Park Berry Patch and South Side Fruit Park, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH; and Monument to Sharing, Los Angeles Historic Park. Los Angeles, CA. Installations include Paradise, Portland Art Museum, Portland. OR; CRAZY, Chiostro Del Bramante, Rome, Italy; Empire, Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA; Teatro del Sole (Theater of the Sun), Manifesta 12 Biennale, Polermo, Sicily, Italy; and Fruits from the Garden and Field, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.

Lead Sponsor

Roswitha Kima Smale

Sponsor

Carole Anderson

Supporting Sponsor

Pat and Marshall Postman

Find our NFT collectionwith Culture Vault, Garden 0f Delight. here: https://opensea.io/collection/garden-of-delight

“Love is Blind in Natural History” by Fallen Fruit, Austin Young and David Burns, 2022, is a collage using an image of a statue “Love is Blind” (Amore Accieca) (c. 1875). Donato Barcaglia, in situ with “Sketchbooks and Drawings,” an asynchronous repeat pattern created with historic drawing from the permanent collection of the NGV made by the early explorers and first settlers of Australia. The original artwork installation “Natural History” was commissioned by NGV Triennial, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 2020. Using the medium of wallpaper, Fallen Fruit creates unique designs inspired by seemingly local flora and fauna. “Natural History” 2020, takes its subject matter from Australia and critically combines introduced species of birds and plants with indigenous ones. This is a detail of an immersive artwork created for the European Galleries at the NGV. **The genesis sale of this NFT It one fruit tree planted in a public space for sharing and mapped on endlessorchard.com in honour of the new owner.

Sound by Andrew Stanley (of Yolanda Be Cool).