TIME:
6.30–7.30pm (1:30 AM PST)
WHEN:
Thursday 17 July
WHERE:
Cinema A, GOMA
ENTRY:
Free, no bookings required
Food can express our identities and cultivate communities, but how does it really shape who we are?

Join ABC Radio National’s Weekend Arts host Sarah Kanowski and guests as they discuss how food has played a vital role in shaping cultural identities.

Held in conjunction with ‘Harvest: Art, Film + Food’ at GOMA until 21 September.

Missed a past GOMA Talks session?
Catch up online on QAGOMA TV.

HAVE A QUESTION?
ASK THE PANEL #GOMATalks

HEAR FROM
Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young)
LA-Based artist collective and exhibiting ‘Harvest’ artists
Joining the session live via Skype
Dr Diane Kirkby
Reader in History, La Trobe University
Joanna Savill
Editor, Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide
Paul West
Chef and host of River Cottage Australia

take a tour of Pineapple Express! at QAGOMA HERE.

We are making our first URBAN FRUIT TRAIL in collaboration with Heart of Los Angeles.

Join Fallen Fruit ( David Burnsand Austin Young) and Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) at Levitt Pavilion, from 4:00-6:30pm.

We will make fruit inspired art with Fallen Fruit and celebrate the Urban Fruit Trails’ newly planted fruit trees in MacArthur Park!

Guest Artists:
dublab
The Killsisters
Fancy Boyz
HOLA Musicians
Chef Marco Zapien

Bring a picnic blanket and stay for the Levitt Youth Talent night starting at 6:30pm.

This event is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, Council Member Gil Cedillo, Lakers Youth Foundation, Active Alliance and Melissa’s.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

read about our residency on the HOLA blog HERE

Join us!
at Rueben Ingold Park!

Join members of Los Angeles-based art collaborative Fallen Fruit for Lemonade Stand in Rueben Ingold Park. In exchange for a cold glass of lemonade, participants will be 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. This will be a part of an ongoing site specific project with Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and the Park to Playa trail, including the upcoming Stockard Public Fruit Orchard.

here are some images from our last Lemonade Stand at Weatherspoon Art Museum.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Fallen Fruit uses fruit as a common denominator to change the way you see the world

We really need your help! Fallen Fruit has been collaborating with Hearts of Los Angeles (HOLA) in planting 150 trees along an ‘Urban Fruit Trail’ that goes from Lafayette Park to MacArthur Park. We already planted 18 trees in Lafayette Park and We were granted approval by the City of Los Angeles to plant 12 mature citrus trees in McArthur Park in Westlake near Downtown Los Angeles!

We had a setback on monday and all 30 trees we planted so far along Wilshire Blvd and Lafayette park were vandalized. We replanted them (see the ABC7 story here) but we need your help more than ever.

Fallen Fruit would like to name a tree after you (or someone you love).”Sponsor” one or more of 12 citrus trees for MacArthur Park. A beautifully mature citrus (grapefruit, orange, lemon, etc) runs $600 and $800 to purchase and plant. It’s a tax deductible donation through our fiscal sponsor. The name for the fruit tree will exist on the Urban Fruit Trail map and online map.

Use a credit card to make a tax free donation here.)

and Join us for the a celebration in MacArthur Park on Sunday July 20th from 4pm to 6pm!

warmly,

David Burns and Austin Young

LA Times story here

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ABOUT URBAN FRUIT TRAILS
Imagine the City of Los Angeles as a bountiful landscape with streets lined with public fruit trees. The artists of Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) are working with Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) and local communities in the Westlake neighborhood to create the City’s first “Urban Fruit Trail” – over 150-fruit trees along a walking trail, will be planted, nurtured, and harvested by the public – in the MacArthur Park neighborhood.

Last month, the Urban Fruit Trails launched when 12 fruit trees were planted in LaFayette Park. This coming week, 12 citrus trees are being planted in MacArthur Park – with thanks to the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. This is truly groundbreaking and exciting for Los Angeles – we are re-imaging our green space.

We are planting the perimeter of LAUSD’s high school campus at YOKA in Koreatown near the Wilshire/Vermont METRO station with a public orchard that will be cared for by the students as part of the Urban Fruit Trail and we will plant fruit trees that connect these public trees in a network of trails along parkways ( the strip of growing space between the sidewalk and street in front of a building or private home) and next to sidewalks . We’d love to have you join our project that will transform the neighborhood into an “community garden.” In addition to creating a fun, beautiful – and drought tolerant – walking trail with delicious free and healthy fruit for the community; planting 150-fruit trees will help reduce air, water, soil, noise pollution and crime statistics in the area.

There are several ways to get involved and we would love to share them with you. Just reply by email and let us know how to contact you.

Thank you for your time and support!

Vivas las frutas!

David Burns and Austin Young

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ABOUT THE COLLABORATION

The Urban Fruit Trail is the pilot project for Endless Orchard, Fallen Fruit’s groundbreaking global-scale public art project, which will transform often-underserved areas with a network of public walking trails lined by fruit trees. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA9t95cpVZs

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. find more info here. Fallen Fruit began in Los Angeles by creating maps of public fruit: the fruit trees growing on or over public property. Fallen Fruit uses fruit as a common denominator to change the way you see the world.

Heart Of Los Angeles provides underserved youth with exceptional programs in academics, arts and athletics within a nurturing environment, empowering them to develop their potential, pursue their education, and strengthen their communities: http://heartofla.org

In neighborhoods often overrun by poverty, crime and a feeling of hopelessness, Heart of Los Angeles invests in youth to build stronger communities. Heart of Los Angeles gives some of the city’s most vulnerable youth a chance to succeed in life. HOLA provides underserved youth with exceptional programs in academics, arts and athletics within a nurturing environment, empowering them to develop their potential, pursue their education and strengthen their communities. From what started with just a handful of kids in a dilapidated gym, Heart of Los Angeles now serves over 2,400 youth ages 6-24, in a safe and supportive environment. As we celebrate our 25th anniversary, Heart of Los Angeles is stronger than ever, and this is just the beginning of exciting things to come.

additional sites:
HOLA
ARTBOUND

Los Angeles–based art collaborative Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) invite you to participate in our new public art commission about LOVE and the Pommegranate, Fallen Fruit of the Skirball.

Submit a photo of yourself with someone you LOVE by email before July 14

Everyday representations of love, holding hands, hugs,the way you smile with you are happy with a person you love. Maybe your grandmother has a photograph that has been forgotten? A birthday party? a selfie with your best friend? a Wedding? There are special days that we remember that others can’t understand how in love with life you are and maybe you photographed this? Historic photographs. Vintage images. cellphone pictures. We are interested in all kinds of photographs for this exhibition!

How to get involved

Submit hi-resolution jpg images of photographs of you with someone you love by email to info @ fallenfruit.org with a brief description of the image and its meaning. The submission materials may be recent or historic however, they must include you or your immediate family and received by June 14th 2014. Please include your contact name, email, and preferred phone number. There is no limit to the jpg’s you may submit, and all pieces included in the online exhibition, with descriptions and photo credits.

love,
David and Austin of Fallen Fruit

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

On Sunday, May 4, visitors were invited to the Skirball to adopt a pomegranate tree. David Burns and Austin Young were on site and distributed 150 young trees and encouraged recipients to plant them in public space or along the borders of private property, where the fruits will be shared and enjoyed by the community. Each recipient was asked to sign an adoption form promising to plant the tree immediately and care for it until it is established and healthy.

Skirball Cultural Center presents
FALLEN FRUIT OF THE SKIRBALL. on exhibition through October 12, 2014 A centuries-old ketubbah (Jewish marriage contract), the pomegranate, and love serve as inspiration for the artists’ latest public participatory art commission.

Contribute to the exhibition here: Share a photo of u & someone u love for the installation, Fallen Fruit of the Skirball. more info here:

Fallen Fruit of Brisbane: Pineapple Express!
As part of the upcoming ‘Harvest‘ exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, the artist collective Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) are presenting a site specific commission of the pineapple. Find out more about the exhibition HERE.

International Call Out For Canned Pineapple

Fallen Fruit are seeking canned pineapple from every culture in the world! They state: “We are seeking real cans of pineapple with labels in languages that represent everyone everywhere. A Berlin supermarket may have a tin of pineapple from the Philippines. Pineapples are grown in a small area but eaten everywhere in the world.”

How To Get Involved in the International Call Out:

Please send us a single can of pineapple with this form to the address below. We need to receive the can of pineapple by 7 June 2014. Your collaboration on this work will be recognized for this commissioned project. Please note that items will not be returned following display.

Fallen Fruit
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
PO Box 3686
South Brisbane QLD 4101
AUSTRALIA

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Experience a new public participatory art commission by
Los Angeles–based art collaborative Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) created in celebration of human rights, marriage equality, and love.

Fallen Fruit of the Skirball is the latest in the artists’ ongoing series of community-based projects that use fruit as a medium to explore social engagement. The exhibition features a “commitment document” co-authored by Fallen Fruit and
the public and inspired by a seventeenth-century ketubbah (Jewish marriage contract), now on view in the Skirball Museum. Over the course of the six-month artist residency, the document and a selection of portraits of people who love each other—all collected through public participation—will become part of
an immersive art installation that features specially designed wallpaper created from photographs of pomegranate fruits and trees in Southern California.

Participate in the artist residency—Your words
and personal photographs will help to inform Fallen Fruit’s project. Visit skirball.org/fallen-fruit to find out how your attitudes towards love and relationships will help to shape the commissioned work.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

ADMISSION TO THIS ExHIBITION IS FREE

MUSEUM HOURS
Tuesday–Friday, 12:00–5:00 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Participate. Share a photo of u & someone u love for the installation, Fallen Fruit of the Skirball.

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049 skirball.org •
(310) 440-4500
FREE on-site parking;
street parking strictly prohibited

The Big Pineapple in Southeast Queensland

As part of the ‘Harvest’ exhibition at QAGOMA, the artist collective Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) are presenting a site specific commission of the pineapple. Find more info here.

Queensland, Australia is known for their pineapple production. Australian’s eat 20 million new gold pineapples a year. Pineapples were brought to Australia by missionaries in 1838. The first commercial planting was established in a current day suburb of Brisbane in the early 1840s. The commercial industry took form in 1924 and a modern canning plant began around 1946. The canned pineapple is the third most canned fruit behind applesauce and peaches.

Join us! Send us your canned pineapple from anywhere in the world.

dowload the form HERE.

Fresh pineapple was a symbol of prestige and social class. Pineapples were rented to households by the day for display at parties. The same fruit would then be sold to more affluent clients who actually ate it. Charles II, stands on a terrace. To the left, a man, possibly John Rose, the royal gardener, kneels before him and presents him with what is said to have been the first pineapple grown in England.
RCIN 406896 © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

“Too ravishing for moral taste . . . like lovers’ kisses she bites—she is a pleasure bordering on pain, from fierceness and insanity of her relish.” -Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

Rainbow Day Trip: Deep Creek Hot Springs 2014
Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young)
Performed by David Burns, Sue-Na G., Stephanie Kern, Emily Lacy, Husam Salman, Sarah Shewey, Faith Purvey, and Austin Young.

We chose a color to embody for the day. We thought about each color and what that color means in the world. We thought about flavors, histories and songs. We constructed characters based upon our individual research and imagination.

The evening before, we fine tuned our characters collectively. We told each other stories and made embellishments to our color characters. We used feathers and spray paint and worked out the details of each performance. We did not reveal our color performances to the group until the next day. At the trailhead, we geared up and embarked on our experimental day trip to perform all of the colors of the rainbow. Rainbows don’t last forever and they are fragile and temporal (like our group). We became a visual spectrum of color and spanned an arc within a landscape we couldn’t capture except by photographs.

The Rainbow Day Trip was a mind-body experience that constructed a narrative created by individual experiences that was group authored. Some colors were meditations. One of the colors was a series of declarations about each participant. There was a color completely in song. One of the colors was silent. We realized that colors are many things.

Another Rainbow Day Trip again soon.