Projects
The Practices of Every Day Lives
David Burns and Austin Young/Fallen Fruit, (American)
The Practices of Everyday Life, 2016
Site-specific installation for 21c at Proof On Main. Mixed media, including wallpaper, painting, prints, and found objects
“Fallen Fruit’s immersion into the people and places that have shaped this community reveals a multitude of stories and connections in a visually dazzling and profoundly genuine expression of place making,” said Alice Gray Stites, 21c Museum’s ground-breaking director and chief curator. “21c is proud to have commissioned an ambitious project that is truly locally engaged and globally connected. The installation addresses a universal aspect of the human condition, hunger-to be fed, to be seen, to belong, to be loved. The persistence of these desires fosters the continuity of ritual: the practices of everyday life don’t really change-we eat, drink, we talk, we congregate and celebrate in ways that would be recognizable to our forbears at least a century ago-these acts retain meaning and promise.”
Continue reading “The Practices of Every Day Lives”Paradise – Portland Art Museum
Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) OCT 24, 2015 – JAN 17, 2016
“…I was upon the summit of a tall mountain which commands a bewildering prospect of that loved valley… The birds of autumn caroled their soft melodies around, and the blushing flowret bent at the feet of the intruder… Away to the north was the smoke wreathing above the trees which clustered around the lone mission-house and I thought there was an altar to God, and incense from the bosom of the wilderness.”
Excerpt from A Sketch of the Oregon Territory, or Emigrant’s Guide, Philip L. Edwards, 1842.
By the 1850s, the rutted Oregon Trail ferried large numbers of settlers into the heart of the Willamette Valley. A steady diet of florid guidebooks promised a fecund new Eden where everything grew. Oregon came packaged as a vision of “paradise,” ripe with possibility and a symbol of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny.
Continue reading “Paradise – Portland Art Museum”A Day In Paradise
Caldera Presents
Fallen Fruit of Portland!
Join us for a day of free events and site specific artworks created by artist collaborative Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young), Natalie Ball, Bill Cravis, Bruce Conkle, Tahni Holt, Aaron Lish, Jess Perlitz, DeAngelo Raines, Caldera Youth and the Portland Art Museum.
Rainbow Fruit Picking Bikes
Rainbow Fruit Picking Bicycle” (Double Rainbow Edition)
Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young) 2015
Spray paint, resin fruit, Martone bike
These bikes were made for 2 people who could ride around the neighborhood picking fruit. Fruit comes in all colors of the rainbow; red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple – apples, oranges, lemons and grapefruit, blueberries and Plums. If these bikes travel together they make a “double rainbow.” Bikes come with a fruit picker and attached handlebar fruit basket. Obviously, these bikes are made and designed for the fruit picker in mind, but I’m sure the company who designed them would recommend that fruit should not be picked whilst riding. This would be both very dangerous and irresponsible, especially with the risk of possibly causing a road collision. If this was to happen, there would be a serious case with lawyers likely involved. So, not take the loveliness away from the bike, but it’s important that they’re used appropriately!
M-ART-ONE Artist Series and #UNCHAINME
Lorenzo Martone
2015
Style-driven city bike brand, Martone Cycling Co. and celebrated retailer, Ron Robinson, have unveiled a new one-of-kind art installation called #UNCHAINME. A stellar group of high profile LA-based artists joined what is the first in a series of “M – ART – ONE” art shows sponsored by the two year old bike brand including: Sket One, ToMo, Fallen Fruit, and Zachary Crane. Each of these celebrated artists used a Martone bike as a canvas, creating individual works of art showcased and available for sale in the store in Santa Monica.
Fallen Fruit Wallpaper
We make wallpaper for our site specific exhibitions and installation around the world. This custom designed wallpaper uses fruit to make an endless pattern inspired by a city.
The Endless Orchard
The ENDLESS ORCHARD by Fallen Fruit is a way that anyone anywhere can PLANT, MAP, AND SHARE FRUIT!
The Endless Orchard is a real living fruit orchard planted by the public, for the public – a movement of citizens transforming their own neighborhoods. Fruit is a transcultural symbol of sharing and The Endless Orchard is a living public artwork that anyone can eat from! Citizens plant fruit trees in front of their homes and businesses, on the margins of public and private space and interstitial municipal spaces like parkways , bike paths and alleys. Signs placed at each tree identify it as part of a network of sharing. Anyone can plant, map, share, and navigate the fruit trees via our free online portal, EndlessOrchard.com Share your backyard fruit, map existing fruit trees in public spaces or plant new trees and ad them to Endlessorchard.com.
The Endless Orchard will be a collaboration with anyone who wants to join us! – a movement of citizens transforming their own neighborhoods.
The project relies on those who know a city best – the people who live there – to envision what their own neighborhood would be like with the addition of trees bearing fruit, knitted together with other neighborhoods by pathways of apples, peaches, apricots and pears.
Fruit trees planted to grow in front of houses, along sidewalks and overlooked urban spaces become an invitation for the public to explore and enjoy cities in a new way.
Signage placed at each fruit tree explains that this is part of a network of sharing.
COMMUNITY CALL TO ACTION — Fallen Fruit is fund-raising for expanding public fruit in public space. It is easy to change your neighborhood and transform public space. Everyone can participate!
email us at info @ fallenfruit dot org for more information and sign up on or email list below.
EndlessOrchard.com launched on Earth Day 2017
*The Endless Orchard is for illustration purposes only an example of how to imagine a neighborhood experience. Please ask tree owners whenever possible. Never pick someone tree on private property without permission.
The Endless Orchard is funded by Muriel Pollia Foundation, Creative Capital, Good Works Foundation, Awesome Foundation and everyone of you who supported our kickstarter
Park To Playa
Fallen Fruit is making a Public Fruit Orchard at the Stocker Trailhead!
Come plant Fruit trees with us on Saturday Nov. 7th. We’ll post more info soon!
Fallen Fruit Magazine- Issue #1
We launch the premiere issue of FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE – our participatory zine project!
a downloadable PDF HERE
Our new public project which becomes a magazine! For our first issue, !ESTAS COMO MANGO! we worked with OPC and the people of Puerto Vallarta.
Fallen Fruit Magazine
Fallen Fruit Magazine is a public participatory project is created for different cities in the world with the support of an art or cultural institution. The subject matter and themes honor the history and narratives for the places and cultures from which the work is created. For example, the historic mango plantations of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico or the native apple trees of Manhattan in New York City. The majority of texts and images are collected by public engagement through group collage making, interviews and story telling and local historians and cultural leaders are also invited to contribute to the publication. Collectively, the magazine captures a “story of place-making” in a contemporary ‘zine.
Pineapple Express- GOMA
Fallen Fruit of Brisbane: Pineapple Express!
Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young)
As part of ‘Harvest: Art, Film + Food’ at GOMA from 28 June to 21 September 2014, Fallen Fruit present a site specific installation of the pineapple. Fallen Fruit of Brisbane: Pineapple Express! 2014 comprises of a major photographic-collage pineapple wallpaper, video and a large-scale cabinet of pineapple-related objects and paraphernalia featuring objects from local members of the public.
*see the online exhibition here
‘Fallen Fruit Factory- GOMA’ -Fallen Fruit 2014
Video still from ‘Pineapple Express’ – Fallen Fruit 2014
Thank you to the following people for their contributions towards Fallen Fruit of Brisbane: Pineapple Express! 2014:
Albie Allan, Amelia van Ravenswaay, Analie Lally, Andy Monks, Angelina Martinez & Paul Andrew, Anna Jacobson, Annabelle Crow, Ashleigh Newbery, Betty Grigg, Bianca Batstone, Bronwen Jones, Cameron Parker, Cate Strange, Claudia Hyles, Deb Mostert, Dianna Campbell, Elizabeth Willing, Ellie Anderson, Elly O’Neill, Fab Hatters, Gemma Smith, Georgia Gordon, Glenn Cooke, Grace Kevill-Davies, Greta Umbers, Jane Grigg, Jenny Sathngam, Josephine Perkins, Justin Stenton-Dozey, Karen Benjamin, Kate Summers, Kenneth Lyons, Keren Brown, Kerryanne Farrer, Kirsten Devitt, Kyla Stephan, Laura Horrocks, Lisa Pieca Pineapple (AKA Lisa Burnett), Lyle Duncan, Marie Fitzgibbon, Melissa Crothorn, Michael Gilmore (Pineapple from the Dawn of Time), Michelle Fleur, Miya White, Nicole James, Rachel Long, Renee Steenstra, Rodney Jensen, Sandra Eastern, Sandra McLean, Susan Dryden, Tim Askew and Matt Carroll, Tory Jones, Una Hollingworth, Vanessa Bovee, and Zara Monteith.
The artists would also like to thank Doug Jones at Golden Circle, and Ken Fullerton Jnr at Fullerton Farms.
Harvest
Fallen Fruit of Brisbane: Pineapple express
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Fallen Fruit (David Burns & Austin Young)
Fallen Fruit of Love
Fallen Fruit’s name is derived from a passage in the book of Leviticus: “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.” Fallen Fruit’s community-based projects use fruit as a medium to explore social engagement. The themes of generosity and sharing that guide their work align with the Skirball’s mission of hospitality, equality, and civility.
After studying the Skirball’s collection of Jewish cultural artifacts, Burns and Young found inspiration for their project in a seventeenth-century ketubbah (marriage contract). They also discovered how prominently the pomegranate figures in Jewish tradition, particularly as a symbol of fertility and marriage. Focused on this fruit, the artists researched the emotional, cultural, and intellectual “ingredients that make for a great relationship” during the course of their residency at the Skirball. The exhibition combines their interest in both the cultural ritual of marriage and the beauty of the pomegranate by featuring specially designed wallpaper created from photographs of pomegranate fruits and trees in Southern California. The latest addition is a selection of portraits of people who love each other, accompanied by a Love Score—an artfully designed composite of love advice submitted by the public.
Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young. Since 2013, David Burns and Austin Young have continued the collaborative work.