Public Fruit Tree Adoptions

Public Fruit Tree Adoptions, public art project, 2007 – ongoing
Working with a variety of donors or organizations like TreePeople and neighborhood groups, Fallen Fruit distributes free bare-root fruit trees in a variety of urban settings. We encourage the planting of these trees in either public space or on the periphery of private property, in order to create new kinds of communal life based on generosity and sharing.

Fallen Fruit Presents EATLACMA

February 2010 – November 2010
Join us!
EATLACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. Fusing the richness of LACMA‘s permanent collection with the ephemerality of food and the natural growth cycle, EATLACMA’s projects consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships.  EATLACMA unfolds seasonally, with artist’s gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, hands-on public events, and a concurrent exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA (June 27-November 7, 2010). It culminates in a day-long event (November 7, 2010) in which over fifty artists and collectives will activate, intervene, and re-imagine the entire museum’s campus and galleries. EATLACMA is curated by Fallen Fruit: David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young and LACMA curators Michele Urton and Jose Luis Blondet.

‘Counter Intelligence’ at the Luckman Gallery

HI Everyone!

Fallen Fruit is included in a great show opening this Saturday at Luckman Gallery at CalState Los Angeles. Please join us!!

hugs,
David, Matias and Austin

Taking its name from Jonathan Gold’s Pulitzer Prize winning LA Weekly column, Counter Intelligence is an exhibition inspired by food. Consisting of sculpture, photography, video, and performance, artists examine the social, political, and historical origins of food as well as simply celebrating it.

COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
curated by Marco Rios

November 21 – January 23
opening Saturday December 19th, 6pm – 8pm

Luckman Gallery
Luckman Fine Arts Complex
California State University, Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032
T: 323.343.6604
F: 323.343.6423

Come see us in ACTIONS at the Graham Foundation in Chicago

Actions: What You Can Do With the City

16 October 2009 until 13 March 2010
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
4 West Burton Place, Chicago, Illinois

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents Actions: What You Can Do With the City, an exhibition with 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world. Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their experimental interactions with the urban environment show the potential influence personal involvement can have in shaping the city, and challenge fellow residents to participate.

InstantHerlev, Copenhagen, Denmark (curated by Anja Franke)

INSTANT HERLEV INSTITUTE
Byskovvej 28, 2730 Herlev, Danmark

InstantHERLEV institute
WWW.INSTANTHERLEV.DK

Director and artist Anja Franke.
WWW.ANJAFRANKE.DK

InstantHERLEV institute is an international space for urban landscape, architecture and artistic research, development and project in a Copenhagen suburb. The project and exhibition shows in dialog between the mental and the physical private and public urban space in the neighbourhood of Herlev.

Cited by Malene Vest Hansen:
The IH institute examines and challenges familiar interpretations of spatial organization. The unwonted placement and arrangement of contemporary artworks cantered in and around the plot of Anja Franke´s private home raises a series of questions concerning private and public space, and the placement and role of art project in these spaces.

InstantHERLEV institute temporarily introduces a new distinction to this suburban district, supplying a new angle on the familiar surroundings. This type of residential district is such a widespread phenomenon in Danish suburbs, that it can be difficult to see it. When visitors arrive to view an art exhibition, it suddenly becomes possible to see the neighbourhood in a new light. IH institute demonstrates – far more clearly than the artist and the curators involved could have imagined – that it dose not take much for the neighbourhood to reveal the other vice implicit rules and regulations which normatively control private life here. Who lives here is not only determined by resident’s financial status. There is a consensus on how people should be, certain rules on how to live.

There are no tangible borders between public and private space; they are historic-cultural constructions. The definitions are intimately related to our notions of human conditions and the kind of political society we desire. In others words IH institute denotes the organization of urban spaces as an ideology and art as spatial politics.

Summer 2009 InstantHERLEV institute will show a new exhibition including artists and architects from Los Angeles, Mexico and Denmark. The exhibition is a meeting between international artists in a local context in Herlev. All artists will do site-specific art project reflecting on everyday life and global circumstances with focus on climate, society and consumption, and how this phenomenon influence architecture, culture, land, owner ship, and environment in the private and the public space. In summer 2004 the first exhibition was shown: instantHERLEV-project for a Copenhagen suburb.

The participating artists are :

Giamoco Castagnola, Tjiuana, Mexico.
Fallen Fruit, Matias Viegner, David Burns and Austin Young, Los Angeles, USA
Didier Hess ved Jenna Dider and Oliver Hess, Los Angeles, USA
Jens Haaning, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Gillion Grantsaan, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Camilla Berner, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kristina Ask, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anja Franke, Herlev, Denmark.


The tart yellow plums of Herlev make excellent jam!

the pathways between streets in the neighborhood are flanked in plums and berries…