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.

Dear Friends,

We will be opening the 2nd installation of Fallen Fruit’s Fruitique!:
GARDEN OF EDEN, which is loosely themed with animals and fruit. Please join us! Opening reception for the artists on Sunday, April 27th from 1pm to 4pm.
Light fare and refreshments provided by Whole Foods Market Westwood
and Juicing courtesy of HUROM Slow Juicers!

Fallen Fruit’s Fruitique
10920 Kinross Avenue @ Galey in Westwood Village
Los Angeles, CA 90029

Collage by Kristi Lippire and Matt Wardell

Artists:
Mark Allen
Jessicka Addams
Ursula Brookbank
Kelly Brooks
Miles Conrad
Spencer Douglass
David P. Earle
Daniel Flores
Cake and Eat It
Fab Hatters
Corbin Frame
Fallen Fruit
Finishing School
Bettina Hubby
Gustavo Herrera
Institute for Art and Olfaction
Alfalfa Jones
Virginia Katz
Jessicka Addams
Julie Lequin
Kristi Lippire
Mara Lonner
Hilary McLean
Michelle Muldrow
Ranu Mukherjee
National Bitter Melon Council
Jeanne Oliveri
Marjam Oskoui
Michael Padilla
Barry Pett
Eva Posey
Frances Frankie Ro
Susan Robb
Fred Salomon
Nina Salerno
Margie Schnibbe
Fred Solomon
Holly Topping
David Vanderpool
Matt Wardell
Susan Weber
Jacob Wick
Sarah Bay Williams
Dawn Whitmore
Bruce Yonemoto
Jenny Yurshansky
Carrie Yury

With Love and Fruit,
The Fallen Fruit Team

About the Fallen Fruit’s Fruitique

Created in conjunction with the Hammer Museum’s Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood in Los Angeles, CA. The “Fruitique” is a collaborative retail consignment store and art installation space that functions as Fallen Fruit Headquarters and also a retails boutique for fine art and unique gifts. Regularly scheduled public participatory events are programmed free of charge and everyone is welcome to participate!! Boutique + Fallen Fruit = Fruitique!

About 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. Fallen Fruit uses fruit as a common denominator to change the way you see the world. By always working with fruit as a material or media, the catalogue of projects and works reimagine public interactions with the margins of urban space, systems of community and narrative real-time experience. Fallen Fruit’s visual work includes an ongoing series of narrative photographs, wallpapers, everyday objects and video works that explore the social and political implications of our relationship to fruit and world around us.

Exhibition: Deborah Oropallo and Fallen Fruit opens Saturday, April 12, 3:00-5:00pm

Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener, Austin Young)

Fruit Machine, 2009

Video, Edition of 3 + 3AP

Variable dimensions

Media Room | Fallen Fruit | Fruit Machine
April 12, 2014 – May 31, 2014

Exhibiting concurrently with Deborah Oropallo will be the work of Fallen Fruit. Our dedicated media room will feature Fallen Fruit’s video Fruit Machine, on on-going project in which the artists capture teenagers (between the ages of 12 -17) eating a variety of fruit. A study in how we actually eat, the portraits range from graceful to awkward and comical, as the teenagers navigate what they quickly come to realize is a not-so-simple task.

Opening Reception: Saturday April 12, 2014: 3:00-5:00pm

Hi Everyone,

Let us know if you are interested in participating. There is a limited number of colors in making a rainbow. This collaborative project is inspired by artist Susan Robb (see below).

Love, David and Austin ——————————————————————-

RAINBOW DAY TRIP:

An “open call” to perform a color of the rainbow On Saturday, May 3, 2014 – All Day, 8am to Sunset. Join Fallen Fruit and friends for a day hike  from the edge of the world to  Deep Creek Hot Springs with trekking poles at Montem. Those heading out into the wilderness themselves may want to ensure that they are properly equipped with everything they need to stay safe and healthy. Reading the outdoorempire.com guide might help to source gear and products to help with this. We will become a rainbow as we engage with nature and embrace an idealized hippy lifestyle that calls back to a counterculture of days-gone-by in California.  Join us for group meditation, fruit songs, and a banana sound circle .  Along the trail we will meet with artist Susan Robb as she continues her Creative Capital award winning project Wild Times.  The Rainbow Day hikers become “trail angels” offering her and other PCT hikers facials, massages, fresh fruits and encouragement along the 4 month journey from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. ABOUT DEEP CREEK HOT SPRINGS

Deep Creek Hot Springs was once a self-organized hippie commune in the early 1970’s. An evolving group of residents built 4 swimming pools into the granite banks of Deep Creek, which is fed by snow melt from high above in the San Bernardino Mountains. The hot springs themselves are natural springs and typically measure about 108 degrees at the source. The pools range in temperature from about 104 to 88 degrees depending on season and distance from the mother spring. RESERVATIONS Only 22 spaces are available to perform the rainbow!!

Send an email here with your preferred color(s) and personal contact information, Fallen Fruit will reply to your rsvp with more information. RECOMMENDED AGES 16-60, anyone is welcome to participate!  Also, well behaved pets welcome!!  (NOTE: this is a very difficult hike for pets and only pets who are in very good condition can hike this trail.) REQUIRED SKILLS Must be capable of completing a rigorous hike to get to the hot springs because the elevation gain is demanding.  Also, there is minimal shade and you must pack-in and pack-out.  Other skills include; cooperation, colorful attitude, laughter, playfulness, singing and hugging.

CAST OF COLORS

Light Red
Light Orange Red
Light Orange
Light Orange Yellow
Light Yellow
Light Yellow Green
Light Green
Light Green Blue
Light Blue
Light Blue Purple
Light Purple

I would lead you and bring you to my mother’s house – she who has taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates. –Song of Songs 8:2

For our upcoming residency with the Skirball Cultural Center we  explored their vaults of Jewish cultural artifacts.  The Land of Israel is described as ‘A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey’ (Deut. 8:8). And we  found many beautiful objects  and paintings featuring figs, etrogs, apples, oranges, and all kinds of fruits. A seventeenth-century ketubbah (marriage contract) especailly caught our eyes.  The 17th century ketubbah is decorated with fruits, the signs of the zodiac,  and scenes from the Torah including Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

David Burns and Austin Young –Ketubah, 1677. Museum Purchase from the Collection of Salli Kirschstein. Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden- Ketubah, 1677. Museum Purchase from the Collection of Salli Kirschstein. Skirball Museum

Fruit Farmer Greeting Card. Gift of Martin and Doris Sosin. Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.

Share–Jewish Relief Campaign” poster. Purchase made possible by Peachy and Mark Levy Project Americana Acquisition Fund. Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.

When you eat a pomegranate you can give witness to its beautifully grotesque mess. Your hands may become blood-red stained. Some scholars believe the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden was a pomegranate.  The serpent talks Eve into eating the fruit and they are expulsed from the garden and go about the business of raising children.

 In Greek mythology, Persephone is forced to live in Hades’ underworld once a year after eating pomegranate seeds. Perhaps a representation of a return to the womb and her pregnancy.

The Chinese words for “son” and seed” are the same. In China an open pomegranate is a popular wedding present, wishing the couple to have as many sons as there are seeds.

Fallen Fruit is excited about the upcoming project at the Skirball, where we will focus our work on the Pomegranate.   Visit the Skirball’s website to learn more: http://www.skirball.org/exhibitions/fallen-fruit.

Ushpizin Cloth for Sukkot. Museum Purchase with Museum General Acquisition Fund. Skirball Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.

When people think of Los Angeles, it isn’t usually a bountiful landscape teeming with public fruit trees that comes to mind.  But the artists of Fallen Fruit – Austin Young and David Burns – are working with local communities to transform the neighborhoods surrounding Downtown Los Angeles into a walk-able network of Urban Fruit Trails. Starting this month Heart of LA (HOLA) will collaborate with Fallen Fruit to create the City’s very first Urban Fruit Trail: over 150-fruit trees planted in the MacArthur Park neighborhood.

HOLA students will research where the trees can be planted, plant them, and then map their location. During weekly workshops with Fallen Fruit, HOLA’s young artists will create site-specific artworks based on the places, people, cultures, and trees they discover along the Trail; and their actions and artworks will be documented and geo-tagged in a free downloadable app.

The MacArthur Park Urban Fruit Trail is the pilot for Endless Orchard, Fallen Fruit’s groundbreaking global-scale public art project, which will provide often-overlooked urban communities with public walking trails lined by fruit trees. The trees will be planted, sustained, nurtured and harvested by the public.   “We’re thrilled that our students are creating the roots for such a significant project,” said HOLA Visual Arts Director Nara Hernandez. “Fruit trails can create an abundant neighborhood and celebrate a community of sharing,” explained Austin Young. “It’s about transforming our relationship to the city and each other,” added David Burns.

Urban Fruit Trails invite the people of Los Angeles to experience the City as a fruitful place, to collectively re-imagine the function of public participation and urban space, and to explore the meaning of community through creating and sharing new and abundant resources.   The fruit trees planted along the Urban Fruit Trail will reflect the natural ripening of fruit during a season: plums and peaches in the summer, pomegranate and persimmon in the fall, and citrus – lime, lemon, orange, and kumquat – over the winter and spring. At the heart of LA’s Urban Fruit Trails a “Monument to Sharing” will be installed at the Los Angeles State Historic Park alongside an orchard of citrus trees.  

Endless Orchard is a Creative Capital awarded project. This pilot project, Urban Fruit Trails, is supported by a grant awarded to HOLA by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Program, which supports fearless and innovative collaborations in the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg: www.rauschenbergfoundation.org.  

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: https://fallenfruit.org/about/

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   Fruit as public resource: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/del-aire-fruit-park.html

Press Contact: Lee Schube              (213) 389-1148 :: lschube@heartofla.org