“Now a cheeky trio of artists have turned fruit trees into cultural symbols as well. The group, known as Fallen Fruit, recently planted what is being billed as the state’s first public fruit park in an unincorporated community with neatly clipped lawns outside Los Angeles.”
For this project commisioned by Grey Area, we selected our Fallen Fruit, Public Fruit Wallpaper, Hawaii, created in 2012 using borrowed and found fruit from Honolulu’s Chinatown neighborhood. Part of their Public Fruit Wallpaper project, in which they photograph found fruit from selected cities, the image seeks to capture both the realities and aspirations of that place. Hawaii is the crossroads of East and West, with the fruit of all the world represented there. It’s a symbol of global diversity combined with the dream of tropical exuberance and bounty…Like the Smart Car, it emphasizes diversity, and also, our dreams of fruitful plenty. The wallpaper depicts a vibrant and artful sense of play in line with Smart Car’s exciting launch and dynamic brand.
Janet Owen Driggs reports on “The Del Aire Fruit Park,” the first public fruit park in the state.
Based on the article, Fallen Fruit and the ‘Thin End of the Wedge’ by Janet Owen Driggs
Read it here: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/cou…
Del Aire Park is public arts commission by The Los Angeles County Arts Commission
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Endless Orchard is a traditional grid of fruit trees is amplified by mirrors, creating an illusion of endless fruit trees from various angles. The flashy technology of spectacle contrasts with its opposite, the quietly growing fruit tree. One is fast, and the other is slow. One is all surface, and the other is all substance. It’s a lens on the relationship between our food and its history and how we live today. It interrogates our use of land, our values, and how we sustain one another. It asks us to take a closer look.
Forty years from now, Los Angeles would have a completely different landscape. All arable land would be adapted to generate fruit and produce. The city would be a kind of permaculture food forest. This doesn’t mean that it won’t be beautiful. We take advantage of the natural beauty of fruit and fruit trees, the fragrance of their flowers, and the soothing charm of their green leaves — all demonstrated to improve mood and quality of life.
Fallen Fruit is David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young.
We collaborate with the public to make art using fruit at as a common denominator to change the way you see the world.
Join Fallen Fruit at Del Aire Park for a Public Fruit Jam!
An interactive collaborative exploration of fruit, community, and neighborhood goodness.
Sunday August 5th, 2012
12pm-3pm, Public Fruit Jam!
Join us and your friends and neighbors to make jam together. Bring your home-grown or street-picked fruit, or even fruit from the market, and come jam with us. Wash your fruit prior to arrival. Bring clean, empty jars if you have them and bring a friend or neighbor too! Working without recipes, we ask people to sit with others they do not already know and negotiate what kind of jam to make: if I have lemons and you have figs, we’d make lemon fig jam (with lavender).
The Public Fruit Jam harkens back to old-time community harvest festivals. The kinds of jam we make will improvise on the fruit that people provide. The fruit can be fresh or frozen. The artists of Fallen Fruit will bring public fruit picked from the streets of Los Angeles. We are looking for radical and experimental jams as well, like strawberry grapefruit or lemon pepper-and-lavender jelly. You’ll learn about the basics of jam and jelly making, pectin and bindings, as well as the communal power of shared fruit and the magic of public fruit.
Fallen Fruit is a collaboration of David Burns , Matias Viegener and Austin Young.
Del Aire Park
August 5th, 2012
12pm-3pm, Public Fruit Jam
12601South Isis Avenue
Hawthorne, CA 90251
SATURDAY, JUNE 30
Art + Flea:
FIND ART festival t-shirt silk-screening with artist Carolyn Castaño, 1-4PM: Festival attendees can bring their own t-shirt or pick up one at the event ($5 for those who bring their own t-shirt, $10 for those who buy one at the event).
Public Fruit Jam by Fallen Fruit, noon-3PM: The artist collective invites the public to bring homegrown or street-picked fruit and collaborate with them in making collective fruit jams. Working without recipes, Fallen Fruit members ask people to sit with strangers and negotiate what kind of jam to make. For instance, “If I have lemons and you have figs, we’d make lemon-fig jam (with lavender).” Usually held in a gallery or museum, this event highlights the social and public nature of Fallen Fruit’s work. The artists consider it a collaboration with the public as well as a collaboration between participants.
10AM – 5PM
Art & Flea at Smith-Beretania Urban Park (All Ages) FREE
10AM-11AM KTUH
11AM-12PM KTUH
12PM-1PM DJ Mortadelah
1230PM JJ DOLANS PIZZA EATING CONTEST
1PM-2PM Tyler Martinez & Joshua Pascua
2PM WALDO LOOK-A-LIKE-CONTEST
215PM-3PM Slapp Symphony
3PM RAFFLE – PRIZE GIVEAWAYS
315PM-4PM Black Square
4PM WHERE’S WALDO SCAVENGER HUNT – WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT
415PM-5PM Kings of Spade
Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Park: Interactive performance, Immigrate Imitate Prophet Profit, by Robert Reed (Honolulu, HI), from 3-5PM. Robert Reed is an MFA graduate from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. An installation and performance artist, he writes, produces, directs, costumes, stages, documents, constructs and performs his own material. His Find Art performance is inspired by his two decades of experience as an international flight attendant and his own reflections on the joys and horrors of capitalism’s excesses and deceptions. Festival attendees will encounter Reed as a fantastic giant parrot roaming Chinatown in his mobile cage. Drawing on irony and satire and using a light touch accessible to anyone, “Tourist Trap” encourages the public to consider notions of exploitation, confinement and a bit of the ridiculous.
HUMAN IMAGINATION:
Art exhibition, PUBLIC FRUIT WALLPAPER, Honolulu, Hawaii by Fallen Fruit.
LOUIS POHL GALLERY:
Find art and “talk story” with gallery owner, Sandy Pohl, and friends. The Louis Pohl Gallery’s mission is to preserve the artwork of Louis Pohl (1915-1999) and his legacy; to promote Hawaii artists and art education programs; to raise the quality of life for individuals, families and communities to “live peacefully day by day; and to help individuals reach their full potential.
MERCURY:
Art exhibition, Refuse, by Marika Emi (Honolulu, HI) and printmakers from Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
MOJO BARBERSHOP & SOCIAL CLUB:
Free hair designs (aka hair tattoos or hair stencils) for kids under 12.
PEGGE HOPPER GALLERY:
Art exhibition and workshop, The Counterfeit Crochet Project (a critique of a political economy), by Stephanie Syjuco. The artist will hold a Counterfeit Crochet workshop from noon to 5PM. Participants can put their crochet skills into action and participate in this collaborative project that utilizes the tenacity and hands-on creativity of crafters to interpret and “translate” high fashion handbags into “homemade” versions. The workshop is free and open to the public. No previous crochet experience is required to participate; crochet materials will be provided.
THE MANIFEST:
Art exhibition, AMALGAMATE: FIND ART Juried Art Exhibition, featuring work by Hawaii artists.
THIRTYNINEHOTEL hosts two art exhibitions:
AMALGAMATE: FIND ART Juried Art Exhibition, featuring work by Hawaii artists
Forever Expanding Sunsets by Carolyn Castano and Chinatown youth.
NIKKI’S ARCADE: 7PM-12AM Site-specific video projection by Honolulu-based artist Vince Ricafort
Join Fallen Fruit at the Smart Museum in Chicago on Sat May 5th for SYMPOSIUM: OF HOSPITALITY. We’ll be digging deep into the questions of radical hospitality during the day and in the evening we’ll debut the latest vintages of Neighborhood Infusions, vodkas with the essence of various neighborhoods infused inside them.
April 14, 2012
Pasadena Earth and Arts Festival
Fallen Fruit “Public Fruit Jam” ~ Bring home-grown or street-picked fruit to jam ~ 11am – 2 pm
Please join us a the Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) on Tuesday, April 3 at 6 PM for the event Gobble Gobble Cobbler with artists David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young of the Fallen Fruit Collective. Residents are invited to bring a their own fruit cobblers and reflect on their childhood memories of fruit. The event will inspire sayings to be inscribed on an edition of picnic tables that will be installed around York and the CCA.
Using fruit as a lens the Fallen Fruit Collective investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood, and new forms of located citizenship and community. The collective aims to reconfigure the relation between those who have resources and those who do not, to examine the nature of and in the city, and to investigate new, shared forms of land use and property.
This program is made possible by funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Daniel Foundation of Alabama and the many contributions of our individual supporters. For more information please contact the Coleman Center for the Arts at 205-392-2005 or email colemancenter@gmail.com.
Fallen Fruit has received a public arts commission from the LA County Arts Commission for Del Aire Park. We’ve met with the community group and we’re now in the design stage. We’re working on creating an installation that functions as a public fruit park.
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Fallen Fruit!
Fallen Fruit of Utah brings together two types of collections through the common ground of fruit. One is sweeping – museums and historical archives – and the other is personal and intimate. Fruit is both deeply symbolic and simply decorative, both ordinary and special, sometimes at the same time. Eight historic collections and archives and over twenty families agreed to collaborate with Fallen Fruit to assemble works that range from spiritual and symbolic to representational landscapes to the commonplace (or everyday objects). This exhibition draws our attention to the meaning of fruit, a way to investigate symbolism, the aesthetics of deliciousness, and the bounty and goodness of the familiar.
The installation of this exhibition is part of our collaborative art practice. We love mixing serious oil paintings with decorative and everyday objects, and there are even pieces from local thrift stores. What links them all is the way fruit is represented, from the deeply symbolic to the simply decorative or even abstract. A selection of our videos are screened in this show, including one shot with teenagers in Salt Lake City. Several key walls in the exhibition are covered with our new wallpaper. It contains apple blossoms and little budding apples, shot in the spring in Utah and California. It’s an index of the real fruit in the real places it grows – the contrast between the photo-realism of the wall and the crafted quality of the art displayed on top of it creates a dialogue between the “real” and the symbolic.
Among the pieces we love best in the show are the various still lives, especially the number of watermelon pieces we’ve found. There are a great number of fruit trees and Mormon Trees of Life (which bear fruit, but of a more mystical kind, often depicted as points of light, floss, or multi-colored delights). In Utah we were especially captured by the number of fruit bowls or baskets, from wax to stone to beadwork. We like the ones that don’t even try to look like real fruit. We discovered the trove of lucite resin grapes that were part of Mormon Relief Society culture in the 1970s. They’re piled near the end of the exhibition, glowing luminously and unnaturally in the light. They’re an eye-catcher, a kind of bedazzlement that combines plastic with our luminous dreams.
PS, We’d like to thank all the institutions, individuals and families who helped us put this together, and especially Micol Hebron and all of the Salt Lake Art Center. We had a great time!
FIFTY ARTISTS EXPLORE ART, FOOD, CULTURE AND POLITICS IN “LET THEM EAT LACMA”
Fallen Fruit in collaboration with The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), presents Let Them Eat LACMA, a day-long event that explores art, food, culture, and politics on Sunday, November 7th, from noon to 8 pm. LACMA will teem with spectacular and subtle performances and installations that intervene in and activate the museum with surprising explorations into art and food. Let Them Eat LACMA is the culmination of the museum’s collaborative project with Fallen Fruit, EATLACMA, which investigates the social role of art and food and the rituals of eating. Since its launch in February, EATLACMA has included a series of interactive programming along with an exhibition and curated set of gardens on LACMA’s campus that will be on view at the event.
‘Let Them Eat LACMA’ Fallen Fruit, 2010
A tomato fight, a song and story cycle on the mystery of the knife, fork and spoon, an electronic melon drumming circle, Salome seducing her lover through the language of food, and a large Mandala of dinner plates ritually assembled and then dismantled by the public who take home each plate. a selection of food served to prisoners in California jails, chewing carolers, a watermelon eating contest, and belly listening sessions in which we hear digestion at its pinnacle. Jonathan Gold will read a text on Spam to accompany Ed Ruscha’s Actual Size, his painting of a can of Spam. Three Los Angeles muses (Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, and Phranc) will sing for their suppers.
‘Tomato Fight’, Jean Dunning
‘Old-Fashioned’ Jennifer Rubell
Artists and collectives participating in Let Them Eat LACMA include Machine Project, Gina Badger, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Lauren Bon, Michelle Carr, Robert Crouch, Cloud Eye Control, DidierHess, Harry Dodge, Jeanne Dunning, Fallen Fruit, Finishing School, Liz Glynn, Jonathan Gold, Veronica Gonzalez, Sean Griffin, Dana Gingras, Liz Hansen, Micol Hebron, Anna Homler, The Infamous Boom Boom!, Dawn Kasper, Emily Katrincik, Killsonic, John Knuth, Kadet Kuhne, Ann Magnuson, My Barbarian, National Bitter Melon Council, Katie Newcom, Gina Osterlogh, Adam Overton, Sun-Yun Park, Phranc, Eva Posey, Miss Barbie-Q., Marco Rios, Roots of Compromise, Jennifer Rubell, Susan Simpson, Slanguage, Asa Sonjasddotter, Squeaky Blonde, Kim Stringfellow, Lisa Teasley, Stephen van Dyck, We Are The World, Michiko Yao, and Bari Ziperstein.
Dana Gingras, ‘What’s Mine Is Yours’
Nov 7th will also be the groundbreaking for “Public Fruit Theater,” Fallen Fruit’s garden at LACMA. It is a theater in the round constructed of reclaimed concrete sidewalks curving around a single citrus tree. The “theater” is the durational performance of the fruit tree in its seasonal cycles, as well as the spectators watching each other watch the tree grow. It comments upon the neighborhood’s history as a one-time site of extensive citrus groves as well as a meditation on today’s prevalence of concrete and lack of publicly accessible or shared fruit trees. The amphitheater for this project was designed in collaboration with Marco Barrantes and Michelle Matthews and constructed by La Loma Development Company. lalomadevelopment.com
EATLACMA
EATLACMA plays the richness of the museum’s permanent collection against the natural growth cycle of gardens to create a year of programming in three acts. EATLACMA has unfolded seasonally to include a curated set of gardens on the museum’s campus; an exhibition curated by Fallen Fruit drawings from LACMA’s collection; and Let Them Eat LACMA, a one-day final event with more than fifty artists and collectives to activate, intervene, and re-imagine the entire museum’s campus and galleries.
EATLACMA exhibitions
Pursuing their ongoing obsession with fruit, Fallen Fruit has curated The Fruit of LACMA, assembling works from the museum’s permanent collection in several forms of media, including painting, photography, and decorative arts. The exhibition will also feature new work by Fallen Fruit, including a picnic table installation, LACMA Event Score – a text piece,Fruit Machine, a series of video portraits of people eating fruit, and Public Fruit Wallpaper, a decorative wallpaper pattern assembled from fruit publicly available, found in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, over the course of one day. Concurrently The Gardens of LACMA will be on view, showcasing artist-designed gardens installed throughout the LACMA grounds. Each artist’s garden examines public space, the actualities and symbols of food, and the people who give these things meaning.
EATLACMA is curated by Fallen Fruit – David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young – with LACMA curators Michele Urton and José Luis Blondet. For information online, visit eatlacma.org.
EATLACMA was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and made possible by a Museum and Community Connections Grant from MetLife Foundation.
Additional support was provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund and Paramount Citrus.
General Information: LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90036. lacma.org.
Museum Hours and Admission: 11 to 8 pm: Adults $12; students 18+ with ID and senior citizens 62+ $8; After 5 pm, every day the museum is open, LACMA’s _Pay What You Wish_ program encourages visitors to support the museum with an admission fee of their choosing.
Thursday, October 28 · 7:00pm – 9:30pm
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
Six artists or collectives discussing their current gardens, all in the exhibition “The Gardens of LACMA” (June 30 – Nov 7) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Curated by Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener, Austin Young) the exhibition examines the garden in an expanded field. It asks whether a garden can do more than be decorative or be productive – can a garden in fact express an idea, or serve as a container for a set of questions and concepts?
The artists will briefly present their very different gardens, and then follow by asking each other questions about the projects. Questions will then be opened to the audience. Our goal is to have a conversation on the expanded potential of the garden, social practice, and what lies in, on and beyond the garden.
With Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio (Jules Rochielle Sievert), Didier Hess (Jenna Didier & Oliver Hess), Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener, Austin Young), National Bitter Melon Council (Hiroko Kikuchi, Jeremy Liu), Roots of Compromise (Karen Atkinson, John Burtle, Ari Kletzky, and Owen Driggs), and Asa Sonjasdotter.
Location Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
6522 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
facebook invite page: www.facebook.com
After more than a year Strawberry Flag by Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio is leaving the VA campus in Westwood and, with EATLACMA nearing its end too, this seems an ideal opportunity to share ideas and thoughts, visit the artwork that Lauren’s garden/sculpture at EATLACMA indexes and, in some cases, meet for the first time.
For the next 3 Fridays (Sept 17, 24 + Oct. 1) 1-3pm , the Twain will run from LACMA to the VA and back again, with guest conversationalists narrating the route and exploring issues raised by the artworks at either end. It’s a curated afternoon and would be made ever so much more meaningful with your participation. We’d love you to join us for any of the three remaining Fridays; but next week, Friday September 24, Matias Viegener will be riding with us (along with George Herms, Al Nodal, Ken Brecher, and Matt Coolidge) and it’d be great to see and hear you then.
RSVP: Info@metabolicstudio.org
There are more details at www.strawberryflag.org
find out more about EATLACMA gardens at www.eatlacma.org
Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studios , Didier Hess , Fallen Fruit , The National Bitter Melon Council , Islands of L.A. presents the Roots of Compromise , and Ã…sa Sonjasdotter.
we’ll be working with LA LOMA Development Company to create our ‘Public Fruit Theater’ at LACMA. 
Come to the opening on June 27
SHOW US HOW YOU EAT
A video project by Fallen Fruit for the exhibition EATLACMA.
Open call for video submissions — Right in front of everybody, in a video on YouTube.
Videos uploaded to YouTube by May 31st, 2010, will be considered for selection to be part of the exhibition Fallen Fruit Presents EATLACMA.
We want to see you eat. We want to see you masticate.
Chomp, gnaw, nosh, dine, feast, nibble, consume, swallow, ingest, devour, munch, gobble up, pig out, chow down and polish off some food.
Show Us How You Eat is a participatory online video project, and is seeking your own videos of eating. We’re asking people to submit/upload a short single take video
of them (or their friends or family) eating – not preparing, cutting, or cooking, but actually eating, chewing and swallowing food. We want to explore the idea that though eating is universal, and images of food appears everywhere, that there are almost no images in art or popular media of people actually eating. This opportunity gives you a chance to be part of an exhibition at LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, called EATLACMA. Submitted videos will be shown on YouTube and Fallen Fruit will select a few of the videos to be included in the museum as part of a wide-ranging series of exhibitions, installations and events that examine the relationship between food, art, culture and politics.
Does everyone eat the same, or does everyone eat differently? Is eating something that connects us, or is it something that differentiates us? Show us how you eat and
tell us what you think.
For technical details and to learn more about the submission guidelines,
go to http://www.youtube.com/group/showushowyoueat
EATLACMA was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and made possible by a Museum and Community Connections Grant from MetLife Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund and Paramount Citrus.
video credits: Fallen Fruit, Fruit Machine video, 2009
silverlakejubilee.com
The Silver Lake Jubilee is a two-day music and arts festival held in Silver Lake. Los Angeles, known for its lethargic freeways, smog and innumerable number of cars, happens to also be a city that values its green spaces, sustainability and environmental responsibility. As a first annual music and arts festival, Silver Lake Jubilee aims to continue the progression of Los Angeles as an eco-friendly city by implementing environmentally responsible initiatives before and during the festival.
No plastic water bottles
No single-use plastic bags, Styrofoam or other non-recyclable containers at festival
The festival aims to source power from alternative energy sources.Bring your own cups, reusable bags and a blank t-shirt to get a special Silver Lake Jubilee screen-printed T-shirt during the festival. A free bike valet will be available. Ride the Metro.
EVENT DATES: May 22 & 23, 2010
LOCATION: Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles
EVENT DATES: May 22 & 23 2010
LOCATION: Myra Ave.
(between Santa Monica & Fountain Ave. in the
Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles)