Come to our opening Saturday, May 2nd.
LA 2019 – Cults, Collectives & Cocooning is curated by Ciara Ennis at the 18th Street Arts Center. LA 2019 “pictures a prospective Los Angeles that rejects its anonymous sprawling suburbs in favor of a return to village life with all the allegiances and intimacy that entails. Neighborhoods become self-sustaining and self-governing entities that rely on home production and barter, rotation of back-yard crops and fertilizing their vegetable gardens with the guano of patio-raised chickens. Business is conducted between hamlets traveled to and from by bio-fueled vehicles, delivery tricycles, horses and donkeys.”

Fallen Fruit speaks at 9:30pm on Friday April 3rd at POSTOPOLIS! Los Angeles at The Standard Hotel. A live 5-day blogathon of back-to-back discussions, interviews, panel talks, slideshows, films and parties with scheduled and unscheduled guests, Postopolis is themed around landscape and the built environment.

We currently have work in Ecological Urbanism, an exhibition on “Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future” at Harvard University’s Gund Hall Gallery, curated by Gareth Doherty. The show runs from March 30 to May 17th.

Come see us take over The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Feb 5th from 7pm- 10pm. We’re giving a talk at 8pm, serving Neighborhood Infusions, showing a variety of images, and holding a Public Fruit Jam. Over 1,200 people are expected!

We have two recent pieces (Neighborhood Infusions and Double Standard) in a new group exhibition:

Emergence Enchanted
Curated by
Stephanie Allespach and Krista Chael

Artists
Lita Albuquerque, Stephanie Allespach, Naomi Buckley, Krista Chael, Cloud Eye Control, Ben Dean, Fallen Fruit, Anne Hars, Micol Hebron, Parichard Holm & Ryan Zufryden, Daniel Marlos, Miwa Matreyek, Molly Millar, Tricia Lawless Murray, Anna Oxygen, Nora Jean Petersen, Nancy Popp, Semiconductor, Elizabeth Tremante

Dates
Emergence Enchanted takes place February 1 – February 28, 2009
Coinciding with the TED Conference.
Opening reception February 6th, 6pm-10pm
Open times during TED, Feb. 3rd-5th 10pm-8pm, 6th 10-10pm & 7th-8th 10-8pm. Pedestrian Viewing 24/7, Galleries open by appointment.

Fallen Fruit has several pieces in the exhibition StayBite: Modes of Operation, curated by Karla Diaz & Evelyn Serrano at The University of Texas at Dallas from Jan 23 – Feb 21

Fallen Fruit is part of an exhibition entitled Actions: What You Can Do With the City 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.

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.

Come see us at Machine Project’s Field Field Guide to LACMA-Sat Nov 15th noon-10pm with Machine Project. Over 4,000 people are expected to visit LACMA in this unique performance event as over 50 artists activate the LACMA campus.

machineproject.com

Check out Fallen Fruit’s XPRIZE submission. The X-Prize Foundation is offering a $25,000 award for the best “Crazy Green Idea.”

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco will be opening a new exhibition called The Gatherers in which 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. curated by Veronica Wiman.

YerbaBuena
www.ybca.org