We are looking for portraits from families of Atlanta to become part of a new exhibition at ACAC, opening October 19th during Art Party. We want images of mothers, fathers, children, parents, grandparents and great-grandparents! Fallen Fruit has collaborated on fruit- and art-related projects with institutions and the public around the world for more than 9 years.  This is their first major art exhibition in the South.

Things we are interested in finding
We want drawings, paintings, or photographs that capture a story about you or your family history.  Maybe the picture that comes to mind is recent?  Maybe it is an older painting from your home?  Maybe you have something in storage that shares part of your family history?  Maybe your grandfather or grandmother was a civic leader? Whether hand drawn, child-like, masterfully painted or photographed, these portraits will symbolically evoke meaning of a place and create a “group portrait” of citizenship in Atlanta – the historic gateway to the South. Our exhibition, Fallen Fruit of Atlanta, draws from the permanent collections of The Hammonds House Museum, The Atlanta History Center, The Swan Couch House, the Margaret Mitchell House and The Wren’s Nest among others, and combines these collections with personal archives.

How to get involved
Please submit jpgs of your portraits by e-mail to info@thecontemporary.org with the subject header FALLEN FRUIT, along with a brief description about the photograph, painting or drawing. Images must be submitted by September 30, 2013. The submissions will be reviewed by the artists before October 5, 2013, and participating families will be contacted. You will need to deliver the selected works to the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center from October 7-11,  2013.  Please include your contact name, e-mail, and preferred phone number with your email submission. We are also interested in words of advice that your parents or grandparents passed on to you and don’t forget to explain the family portrait in any way that is meaningful.  If your works are desired and included in the exhibition, they must be picked up the week after the show ends, from December 16-20, 2013. Please note: your materials will be protected while at the Center, but cannot be insured as “artworks” because of their personal value. You are potentially loaning these objects with full knowledge of this.

Remember:
When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not pick your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. Leviticus 19:9-10

For questions, please contact Stuart Horodner, ACAC Artistic Director, at shorodner@thecontemporary.org or 404.688.1970 x214, or Rachel Reese, Communications Manager: rreese@thecontemporary.org or x216.

PUBLIC ATLAS!

Fallen Fruit and WonderRoot invite everyone to share  a story and art! Write , draw, photograph or paint!  Fallen Fruit will create a map marking the locations of each artist’s work. PUBLIC ATLAS will be on view Sunday, October 20^th  in Cabbagetown and Reynoldstown in Atlanta  where participants from all over the city can collect images and stories at specific sites throughout the neighborhood to create their own artbook: PUBLIC ATLAS- by Everyone who participates.

The PUBLIC ATLAS is in association with the exhibition Fallen Fruit of Atlanta, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, October 19th-December 14th, 2013. Follow the link for the more information about the opening of Fallen Fruit of Atlanta and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

PARTICIPATE:

Works will be small 4”x5” in area size and may include; drawing, painting, text, photography, performance scripts, meditations, etc. Email us a pdf or jpg of your art.   If you are inspired to participate in a way that is within the context of the PUBLIC ATLAS but not able to exist on a small page, email us and we will figure it out.

RSVP to Stephanie@wonderroot.org by October 10.  You will have an additional 5 days to create your piece for the project.

WALK THE ATLAS!

Sunday October 20th from 3-5pm, the streets of Reynoldstown and Cabbagetown will become the sites where everyone can collect stories and compile their own Atlas.[1] Depending on the route you take and the connections you make, the pages in your Atlas will be unique and create your own personal field guide for future explorations.

FALLEN FRUIT FACTORY – – Call for collaborators!

ARE YOU OUT OF WORK?
OR FEEL UNDEREMPLOYED?
TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS?
DO YOU EVER EAT FRUIT?
ARE YOU AN EXPERT ON THE FLAVOR OF A BANANA?

FALLEN FRUIT IS LAUNCHING A NEW PROJECT AT MAKER CITY LA ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st FROM 5PM TO 9PM WITH LIMITED SPACE FOR PARTICIPATION.  Become a collaborator in creating our upcoming project for The Hammer Museum. WE ARE TRANSMORPHING HAND-PICKED THRIFT STORE FRUIT OBJECTS INTO MAGICAL ART OBJECTS THROUGH A PROCESS CALLED THE FALLEN FRUIT FACTORY.

ANYONE CAN PARTICIPATE BUT SPACE IS LIMITED.
MAKE IT HAPPEN!  RSVP.  FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.

VIVAS LAS FRUTAS!!

OLE,
WITH LOVE,
DAVID AND AUSTIN
EMAIL: INFO@FALLENFRUIT.ORG
Maker City LA
1933 S. Broadway
Los Angeles
11th floor

AGORA: 4th Athens Bienalle 2013

At a time when the financial crisis in Greece and elsewhere is reaching a highpoint, the 4th Athens Biennale (AB4) cannot but respond to this bleak situation through a pertinent question: Now what? Using the empty building of the former Athens Stock Exchange as its main venue, AB4 proposes AGORA not only as a place of exchange and interaction, but also as an ideal setting for critique.

Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) made two new public fruit maps, an olive wallpaper design, and performed ‘Lemonade Stand’ in front of the former Stock Exchange.

Tasty, and Subversive Too

By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN

Published: May 11, 2013

“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.”