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coming right up August 17th: Salsa Salsa

PLEASE JOIN US from 3 to 7 p.m. on Sunday August 17th at Farmlab (1745 N. Spring Street) to make salsa and dance together. Meet new people and talk about the future shape and texture of life in this city, including the artists and organizers listed above. Bring your homegrown or street-picked tomatoes and collaborate with your neighbors on new and remarkable salsas. Bring a friend, bring some tomatoes or chiles from your yard – this event is free to the public. MORE INFO HERE and EVENT INFO HERE.
and ARS ELECTRONICA: We will be in Linz the first week in September. We will have a fruit forage and a public fruit jam! Stay tuned for more details.\
UPCOMING NEWS WINTER & SPRING 2009
Fallen Fruit will be traveling for a residency project to Copenhagen, Denmark to participate in InstantHerlev on a site-specific work. Curated by Anja Franke, 2009.
The Armory Center for the Arts has awarded Fallen Fruit a project commission for a new work called "The Garden of Eden"
UPCOMING EVENTS 2008
OCTOBER 2008
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco will be opening a new exhibition called "The Gatherers". Fallen Fruit will be showing a new video called "DOUBLE STANDARD" and working on a new project during a two week residency in November 2008 whose working title is "The Colonial History of Fruit". In it we track the objective social history of fruit – how the Gravenstein apple, for example, got from its roots in the hills of Khazakstan to Marin County in California – with the subjective histories of fruit, or how, why and where a particular fruit was introduced into a family or an individual's life.
The Gatherers opening is on October 30.
Fallen Fruit is part of an exhibition entitled "Actions: Gardening, Recycling, Playing and Walking" at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, curated by Mirko Zardini, Director of the CCA and Giovanna Borasi, Curator of Contemporary Architecture. We will be showing photos and maps and one of our new projects called "Neighborhood Infusions".
SEPTEMBER 2008
Fallen Fruit will be on Discovery Channel's new Project called PLANET GREEN. We are guests on an episode of Adrian Grenier's show called ALTER ECO... check it out on September 8th, 2008!! Adrian is amazing! :)
Venice Eco-Art fair will be the location of our latest mapping and neighborhood forage!! Organized and Curated by Sarah Shewey of PINK CLOUD --Come hangout us and learn about the fruit by the beach!! We will also be serving a new flavor of "Neighborhood Infusions" made specially for Venice Beach, California. more about PINK CLOUD here
Fallen Fruit is invited to Linz, Austria for Ars Electronica from the 4th to the 9th of September. We will mapping Linz, leading nocturnal neighborhood forages and premiering our new video called "DOUBLE STANDARD".
AUGUST 2008
Fallen Fruit is thrilled to host our 3rd annual PUBLIC FRUIT JAM at Machine Project on Sunday August 3rd from 1pm to 4pm. We think we've finally got it down!

more information here
On August 17th is "SALSA SALSA - A celebration of LOVE APPLES," hosted by FarmLAb. An afternoon event to encourage community-based conversations about public space, art actions, and the neighborhoods we live in. Home made salsas and music and dancing will embellish this free event!
This event is also a thank you to the artists, art and community organizers without whom LOVE APPLES would have failed. These include: Dorit Cypis (Foreign Exchanges), Jenna Didier of Materials & Applications, Jon Lapointe & Otoño Luján of Side Street Projects, Jay Belloli from the Armory, and Zazu Faure & the others in the Glassell Park group of gardeners. In particular we'd like to thank Al Nodal and the Department of Cultural Affairs, including Joe Smoke, Pat Gomez, Nicole Gordillo, and Felicia Filer. They are all invited to come and speak informally on their perspectives on public art in LA today.
Please come celebrate and meet some amazing artists and civic leaders on the frontlines of public art and community activism. August 17th from 3 to 7 p.m.
more info here ---->and here .
JULY 2008
HABEUS INDEX curated by Linda Pollack will feature David, Matias and Ari Kletzky (of Islands of LA) speaking about the LOVE APPLES project. July 31st at 1:30 pm at the Habeas Index in the artspace@7+Fig, 735 S. Figueroa Street, middle level.
more information here -->
July 12 -Sept 13
We have several pieces in the FUTURE OF NATIONS show at the 18th street Arts Center in Santa Monica, "Citizen Artist's Making Emphatic Statements" curated by Al Nodal. Opening on July 12th, from 6pm to 9pm. More information
June 28 - July 26th. We have two new pieces in "PARTY FAVORS" curated Holly Myers at Bonelli Contemporary in Chinatown in Downtown Los Angeles. Fallen Fruit presented a custom made suite of "Neighborhood Infusions" and previewed our new video "DOUBLE STANDARD".
JUNE 2008
ISLANDS OF LA and FALLEN FRUIT plant a mock-traffic-island at Side Street Projects with neighborhood kids! Thanks to Jon Lapointe, Emily Hopkins and Otono Lujan!!
Fallen Fruit is preparing for "Cultivating the Asphalt," a show at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco and for the upcoming "Future of Nations" project for 18th Street Art Complex and Casa De Tunnel: Art Center, Tijuana this coming Fall.
Gordy Grundy of Artillery Magazine mentions Fallen Fruit in his column "THROTTLE". visit gordy' website here.
YOUTUBE picked Fallen Fruit's video with KCET as one its front page "FEATURED VIDEOS"!! yipppeeee - Super thanks to Juan Devis and Bill Kelley!!
ARTMATTERS awarded Fallen Fruit a project grant for "SISTER CITY", part of a new series of projects about the "COLONIAL HISTORY OF FRUIT". Thank you so much for the support!!! We are very excited about this opportunity. :)
MAY 2008
CURRENT TV's Alex Reiter produces a segment called "EAT A NEIGHBOR'S FRUIT" about Fallen Fruit's Nocturnal Fruit Forages.
Check the video out here ----->

thanks so much ALEX!!!
Fallen Fruit presents recent and upcoming projects at QUICKSILVER in Huntington Beach, CA.
check out this link for more details -->
Fallen Fruit are invited to Loyola Marymount University to lecture about the project.
APRIL 2008
CBS2 - Eyewitness News did a story about Fallen Fruit -- thanks Dave Malkoff for producing a great story about fruit in the neighborhood!
link to video is here -->
LOVE APPLES - a collaboration between Fallen Fruit and Islands of LA.
LOVE APPLES is an installation of seventy-two tomato plants on twelve traffic islands in LA, carefully tracked to see which thrive and which perish, à la Survivor, and then harvested for a public festival on August 17 at FarmLAb called Salsa Salsa. Love Apples occupies twelve sites in Northeastern Los Angeles, not counting the one at Side Street Projects. The tomatoes are planted on unoccupied and irrigated public space, and nothing was destroyed or removed in placing them. Love Apples is an experiment in public space in the city of Los Angeles, imagining new ways in which such spaces could be utilized to make our communities more livable and engaged. Visitors are asked to sample but not hoard any tomatoes they find in public. To encourage people to explore the city’s forgotten spaces, our complete map will be released at the Salsa Salsa festival on August 17th.
* "Love Apple" is the 16th century English name for tomatoes, from the French pomme d’amour, possibly a mistranslation of the Italian pomo dei mori, apple of the Moors. The Italians first got tomatoes from the Spanish Moors. For this reason, other Europeans were advised at first against eating tomatoes, since they were believed to be aphrodisiacs.
MARCH 2008
Fallen Fruit hosts a PUBLIC FRUIT JAM at MOCA (pacific design center) in honor of Fritz Haeg's new book called Edible Estates.
Fallen Fruit is part of KCET's current featured Web Story, "Sustaining LA." The program includes Fallen Fruit, the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Farmlab and Edible Estates. Click here to check it out the project:We've created new maps and a few videos about Fallen Fruit and the nocturnal fruit forages (thanks to Daiana Feuer and Gerard Olson for their incredible cinematography).
Join us as we tour and map public fruit in a new neighborhood in LA in conjunction with KCET's "Sustaining LA." Fruit Mapping and neigborhood tour Feb 23rd, 2008 1pm, location TBA.
APRIL 2008
We're working with artist Ari Kietsky and his project "Islands of LA,"
which has declared all the traffic islands in Los Angeles as national park.
We'll be taking one (or more) of the islands and turning them into fruit islands, part of a new urban archipelago.
Artist's Talk and Lecture, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, April 22nd 2008 @ 8pm
MARCH 2008
On March 29th, we're holding a public fruit jam at MOCA to honor Edible Estates' new book, Attack on the Front Lawn.
JANUARY 2008
See Rome Rise and Fall in One Day! On Jan 19th at 8pm, Fallen Fruit is delivering an address to the citizens of Rome and serving Ambrosia and Fruit Infusions for "Building Rome In A Day" at Machine Project in Los Angeles.
Visiting Artist Series at UC Irvine, January 17th, 12:30 pm. Talk by David Burns on Fallen Fruit.
Fallen Fruit is included in "Ecocentric," a large international group show on environmental art at the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, CA. The show runs from the end of January through April 20th.
2007
DECEMBER 2007
On December 11th 2007, at 8pm, we are giving a talk as part of the Soft Boundaries discussion series at Materials & Applications in Los Angeles. M&A has been in the forefront of discussions on architecture, urban planning and the environment in Southern California. See site here.
NOVEMBER 2007
Visiting Artist Series at The Center for Integrated Media @ CalArts, November 12th, 7:30pm. Talk by David Burns on Fallen Fruit and other projects.
We will be doing a presentation at the FarmLAb "think tank" facility in a downtown Los Angeles warehouse near the new State Historic Park facility at the Cornfields. Farmlab is a six month research initiative to investigate the feasibility of specific projects addressing issues of urban land use and farming, social justice, environmental responsibility, and alternative value systems based on a balanced use of global resources.
APRIL 2007
Fallen Fruit is leading a Nocturnal Fruit Forage on Thursday evening (4/19)
at 6:30pm in SilverLake at the Triangle park at Sunset and Griffith Park Blvd.
The walking tour is expected to last about an hour to 90 mins. We'll be har-
vesting some lovely organic produce and identifying the best trees for future
reference!

We will provide maps of the area, talk about what we call Public Fruit, and
fruitfully answer your questions. Everyone is welcome to bring fruit pickers
& bags; walking shoes and flashlights are good too!

Afterwards we will meet up at Machine Project, 1200 D North Alvarado Blvd,
nr Sunset for tea and fruit vivisection, accompanied by a cornucopia of song
by singer Emily Lacy.
MARCH 2007
We are in the Edible City show at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Masstricht. Entering the debate about food, food systems, urban design, the built environment and sustainability, the exhibition "The Edible City" consists of urban agriculture, self-sustaining cities, food miles and closed food chains.
FEBUARY 2007
We planted 15 fruit trees (donated to us by TreePeople LA) at the Proyecto Jardin at 1718 Bridge Street in Boyle Heights. The garden is about 7 years old and is completely communal, with no "private" plots. Many thanks to all!
FallenFruit participated in the Art +Activism workshop+conversation at UCLA,
hosted by David Gere. 02/23/07
To bring the principles of the Art+Activism series to fervent life, a wide array of international artist-activists present their projects in participatory workshop format.
Organized by UCLA's Design|Media Arts + World Arts and Cultures programs.
JANUARY 2007
art LA

Public Fruit Jam Demonstration
Machine Project at the LA ART FAIR| SATURDAY January 27| from 2 to 5pm
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - 1855 Main Street - Santa Monica, CA 90401-3209
JOIN US AND SHARE THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOR!
The Fallen Fruit collective will conduct a Public Jam Demonstration.
Your welcome to bring along any of your home-grown or public fruit
(see fallenfruit.org) and any clean, empty glass jars you have. Vats of fun for all!
The kinds of jam we make will improvise on the fruit that people provide.
Fallen fruit will bring public fruit. Lemons and oranges are in season!
There will be an admission fee to enter ART LA.
*see photos here
Until Saturday, Feb. 10, Fallen Fruit has an installation as part of the group show, ‘Paradox and Practice’: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism re-thinks the legacy of Conceptualism vis-á-vis the philosophical operation of paradox. Specifically, the notion of "site," as it exists between art and architecture, is reconsidered. Thinking about paradox and conceptualism is no formal exercise; it is a political imperative Symbolic Architecture.
At the University Art Gallery at UC Irvine.
Curated by Juli Carson and Nana Last.
Room Gallery | University of California, Irvine | ACT rm. 1200 | Irvine, CA 92697-2775
read more here and here

'Two large canvases that face each other both depict city hall, except in one, protestors’ faces are missing. This can be interpreted as some sort of message to spectators of this piece to be a part of the Fallen Fruit movement.-Eugenia Wong "
NOVEMBER 2006
greenmuseum.org - We're in the upcoming “Food + Art" exhibition, curated by Jenée Misraje. The exhibition’s primary focus is on activities and projects in art and material culture concerned with our relationship to food in contemporary society. In tandem with the potentially revolutionary ideologies of organizations like the International Slow Food and Food Not Bombs, this internet-based presentation charts a territory shared by the disciplines of art, design, film, agriculture, and the culinary arts.
PAPER MAGAZINE includes FallenFruit in their 2nd annual curated art show in Hollywood. November 10th & 11th.

OCTOBER 2006
The New Museum - October 24th - We'll be at the New Museum in New York for the presentations of the 2005-6 Rhizome Award winners, of which we are one. The Rhizome Commissions Program makes financial support available to artists for the creation of original works of Internet-based art. In 2005, Rhizome awarded eleven grants to an international group of artists. All the works took the Internet as their primary vehicle for exhibition; several also extended off the web as sculpture, video or installation. This evening will celebrate the works with a one-night installation and presentations by several of the commissioned artists. Cocktails will be served.

Impunities- October 20-21 Matias will be giving a talk on Fallen Fruit at the Impunities experimental writing conference at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles. This event asks what role writing and narrative plays in the invention of alternative communities, identities and politics? Can imaginary communities or fictitious authors solve real problems? What are the methodologies of the oppressed, the voices of the silenced and the technologies of otherness? Such work might include collaborative projects, self-organizing or anarchic groups, poetic terrorists, writer-pirates, and textual gleaners, revolutionaries or exiles. Impunities gathers disparate cultural vagabonds who set into motion our collective fantasies of escape, oblivion, arrival, and transformation.
Cabinet Magazine -there's an article, photographs, and map by Fallen Fruit in the 23rd issue of Cabinet , to be released Oct. 15th. It is their "Fruit & Vegetable" volume.
LA Weekly: Fallen Fruit is "BEST of LA 2006"
The Craft and Folk Art Museum - October 22 to Dec 31 Fallen Fruit will be in Street Signs and Solar Ovens: Socialcraft in Los Angeles, a show at the Craft and Folk Art Museum on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles. The show features artwork created with social activism as its inspiration. Dubbed “socialcraft”, the objects on display are examples of unique artworks utilized by communities and individuals in their quest for social change. Street Signs and Solar Ovens will feature protest art meant for public display such as hand-crafted demonstration signs, posters, t-shirts, as well as examples of instruments for socially-conscious living such as eco-friendly appliances. Curated by Marc and Robby Herbst, of the Journal of Aesthetcis and Protest editorial collective (Cara Baldwin, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Christina Ulke), artwork on display will include the recycled art of Edith Abeyta, the protest knitwear of Lisa Anne Auerbach, the legendary posters of Robby Conal, and the photography of Kelly Marie Martin. CAFAM also is collaborating with institutions including the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and the Center for the Preservation of Democracy. The show opens on Oct 21st and will run until December 31,2006.
Gothtober!- We have a little handcrank flip-book video in the 2006 Gothtober, curated by the very lovely J.P. Gothtober is recognized the world over as the premiere Halloween Countdown. We were lucky to have Judie Bamber to co-star in our danse macabre.

SEPTEMBER 2006
Chung King Common -Telic gallery has a lawn installed inside it, which was the site of the Chung King Common festival. Tom Leeser curated a picnic on Saturday Sept 21st at which we'll gave a talk and share some of our Public Fruit Jam.see photos here.
Sept 8 - Oct 1 -- Fallen Fruit in Fair Exchange
We will be in a show at the Millard Sheets Gallery on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Fair.
Our section includes six new wall panels which are text & image pieces as well as a new installation piece, two 6x8' free-standing prints. One is an image of Los Angeles City Hall with a set of protest signs propped against it. You can take your picture protesting City Hall with either one of our protest signs or with your own (on a dry-erase board). Across from it is another image of us in our Haz-Mat suits at City Hall with fruit protest signs with our faces cut out. It's another kind of photo-op that echoes the great corniness of the county fair.

AUGUST 2006
KPCC 89.3 - Off-Ramp's John Rabe broadcast an interview with us and the other jammers from our Public Fruit Jam at Machine on Aug 20th.
CRAFTZINE
Public Fruit Jam
Machine Project in Echo Park| Sunday Aug 20 | from 12 to 3 free
1200 North Alvarado, LA CA 90026 see photos here
The Fallen Fruit collective will conduct a Public Jam, in which they collaborate with the citizens of Los Angeles in a communal jam-making session. We ask that you bring along any of your home-grown or public fruit (see fallenfruit.org) and any clean, empty glass jars you have. At the end everyone will leave with a jar of communal jam. If enough people bring surplus, even the empty handed will leave with jam. Vats of fun for all!

The kinds of jam we make will improvise on the fruit that people provide. The fruit can be fresh or frozen. Fallen fruit will bring public fruit. We are looking for radical and experimental jams as well, like basil gauva or lemon pepper jelly. We'll discuss the basics of jam and jelly making, pectin and bindings, as well as the communal power of shared fruit and the liberation of public fruit.

Jam with us and share the fruit of our labor!
"Urban Fruit Action" is now showing at ArtMurmur --one of a series of urban fruit guerrilla images in which we re-colonize the unlikely barren and badly planted sections of Los Angeles.
APRIL 2006
Fallen Fruit in Santa Fe April 20- 24, 2005
Fallen Fruit is doing a residency at the College of Santa Fe, which includes a workshop and public talk on Friday the 20th and a pubic fruit mapping of the Second St neighborhood on Sunday the 22nd. The talk will be at 7:30 on the 20th and the mapping will be at noon on the 22nd (meet at the Cloud Cliff Cafe on 2nd St).
rhizome.org
new website launches! with platial.com mapping:
MARCH 2006
currently on display at LACE.
Fallen Fruit is in group show "America, Are We Drowning?" at ArtMurmur

check out our Grand Avenue Intervention submission here.
check out fallen fruit interviews on LAist.com!
lemons and avacados, grapefruit, tangerines... go get 'em!
take a trip to the bicycle kitchen... print out a map and ride!
JANUARY 2006
Civic Matters at LACE!
join us wednesday the 18 for a fruit tour bring a bike!
view the calender of events here
civic center mall proposal here

OCTOBER 2005
Sky Rohde interviewed FallenFruit for Day to Day on NPR! you can listen here!
our fallenfruit forum is now up... ! share opinions, recipes, and fruit sightings or just say hi!
fallenfruit.org juried an Art show home and/or homeless for the 2nd City Council opening in October
Ready Made Magazine is online and on the stands!
SEPTEMBER 2005
fallenfruit.org appears in the September issue of The Whole Life Times.
read the article by Stephen Krcmar here.
AUGUST 2005
FallenFruit appears in Los Angeles magazine

JULY 2005
FallenFruit is a recipient of the rhizome grant:
members of the rhizome.org community participated in the
evaluation process through secure web-based ballots and selected
fallenfruit.org to receive a commission.
through July 20th, images from FallenFruit are currently being exhibited at The Armory Center in Pasadena, CA.
thanks to all who went on our fruit foraging walk! it was super fun!
thanks to Temporary Services who hosted the event!
fruit to look for on the streets of Los Angeles:
bananas, peaches, apples, and figs!
FallenFruit received the eye opener award! from the 2nd city council.
and FOUND magazine
found objects show:
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