Fallen Fruit at Intermediae

We arrived in Madrid and we are going to meet with Maria, Frank and Paqui from Intermediae today to start setting up our ‘Base Camp’. Located at Matadero, it’s an old slaughter house (!) that has been transformed into a beautiful exhibition and performance space.
Please stop by and say hello if you are at ARCO this year.

Fallen Fruit invites you to take part in Acción Fruta Urbana. Visit their Base Camp set up in Intermediæ from February 16th onwards, designed as a place for reunion, collaboration, work and exchange with the collective. A meeting point where to undertake the actions and where the progress of their initiative in Madrid will be displayed. Once the actions are over, and up until March 14th, a selection of their works will be become the protagonist in this space in order to account for their career and experience in Madrid.

- Urban Fruit Walk
Wednesday, 17 February, from 16.00 to 18.00 h*

Fallen Fruit invites the public to join them on an Urban Fruit Walk, exploring local neighborhoods to locate what fruit trees might already exist and to identify places where more trees could be planted. They are especially interested in fruit trees that are planted on the border of public and private property, which provide a point for interrogation on the use of space and the symbolic power of the fruit tree.

- Urban Fruit Action
Friday, 19 February from 12.00 to 18.00 h*

The public is invited to join them in an Urban Fruit Action, planting new fruit trees in the neighborhoods we have explored. The members of Fallen Fruit learned over time that describing what they wished to see what not enough. To paraphrase Karl Marx, the point would not be to describe the world, but to change it.

- Encounter and presentation of the new Public Fruit Map
Saturday, 20 February 18.30 h

An encounter in which Fallen Fruit will talk about their work methodology, where they will present the new Public Fruit Map which will close the Urban Fruit Action.

*To participate contact info@intermediae.es

Matadero Madrid

From Watts, East Los Angeles and other LA neighborhoods come engaging, empowering, and exciting grassroots arts projects to improve the Los Angeles landscape. EATLACMA, PlaceIT, LA Commons and Watts House Project, led by local artists, tackle food, urban planning, and community redevelopment by engaging residents to work together to transform their neighborhoods.

Against the backdrop of potentially disastrous cuts to the LA Department of Cultural Affairs, four local grassroots projects have banded together to increase their chances of winning a national competition that will improve their communities. The Pepsi REFRESH Project will give away $20 million this year to a number of projects with the greatest popularity on its website.

We are asking our friends ,colleagues and neighbors to join us in a unified effort to help us reach the top of this list. With this funding, we can bring over a quarter million dollars to Los Angeles residents who are most in need of programs that dialogue with, engage, and empower them.

• Fallen Fruit presents EATLACMA

• James Rojas – PlaceIT

• Neighborhood Story Connection – LA Commons

• 10 Windmills – Watts House Project

NOTE! >> Pepsi’s REFRESH is set up in such a way that in order to win, people can vote EVERY DAY for the entire month, for 10 projects so please VOTE EARLY AND OFTEN!

Dear Fruit Tree Foster Parents,

We’re writing you to ask for updates on the fruit tree you adopted last Saturday or Sunday at the Watts Towers Arts Center or LACMA.  We’d love to have any news on your tree, as well as any images. For previous fruit tree adoptions we’ve gotten some great pics and we’d like to build up an on-line archive of images and fruit tree stories.  We want to keep the momentum going! We’ll be posting photos on the EATLACMA Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/eatlacma and adding them to our soon to be developed website http://www.eatlacma.org.
 
So send your pictures and stories about where you planted your tree in reply to this email to Sarah Bay Williams at LACMA (sbwilliams@lacma.org) and let us know how the growing goes! Send us updates! And join the EATLACMA Flickr fun.

Thanks so much,

David, Matias & Austin

GOOD IDEA-Pepsi Refresh Project
Inspire community-building through food, art & culture with EAT LACMA.
Pepsi is giving away $1,300,000 each month to fund great ideas!
vote for Fallen Fruit here:

www.refresheverything.com/EATLACMA

We’re headed to Madrid for ARCO 2010 in February, where we’re in residency for two weeks and will be working on a project called Acción de Fruta Urbana at Intermediae in the Matadero arts complex.

www.intermediae.es

Acción Fruta Urbana [ARCOmadrid_ 2010], Fallen Fruit

Performing Public Space-bodily actions and artworks that interrupt the conventional structuring of public space, curated by Janet Owen-Driggs and Matthew Driggs

Lauren Bon, Fallen Fruit, Finishing School, John Geary
Anne Hars & Bill Wheelock, Ari Kletsky, Paul Pescador, Nancy Popp
Jules Rochielle Sievert, Jane Tsong, L.A. Urban Rangers

Bringing the work of eleven LA-based artists and artist collectives to La Casa del Túnel, Tijuana, Performing Public Space presents new performances and artworks alongside growing archives of ‘non-art’ actions documented on the streets, parks and plazas of Los Angeles and Tijuana.

Fallen Fruit will plant 21 fruit trees along the border of Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico. The trees will be in 21 barrels lined against the Mexican side of the border in the Colonia Federal neighborhood for the run of the show. The barrels for the trees will be painted in collaboration with Peruvian artist Giacomo Castagnola, a resident of Tijuana. Each tree will be adopted by a neighborhood resident, who will determine its final placement. Fallen Fruit is working with Guy Hatzvi on simple irrigation and grey water collection systems that can be adapted by local residents.

Performing Public Space

February 6 – March 21, 2010

La Casa del Túnel
Calle Chapo Márquez 133
Colonia Federal
Tijuana BC
México.
(664) 682-9570

www.lacasadeltunelartcenter.org

www.portablecityprojects.org

The US/Mexico Border, Fallen Fruit, 2010

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Come to the opening of Actions, Conversations, Intersections,  at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
An exhibition of participatory projects at Barnsdall, January 24 – April 18, 2010
Our video Double Standard will be part of the exhibition. 
Opening Sunday January 31, 2-5pm. 
at: The Municipal Art Gallery, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90027
Barnsdall

Opening January 30 until February 19 2010
Curated by Veronica Wiman: * la vitrina presenta: fallen fruit
Selections from United Fruit will be openingat Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Colombia. Most of the work for United Fruit was originally generated during our residency at Lugar a Dudas, so it’s an honor to be asked back to show it.
Banana Machine and Los Bananeros

www.lugaradudas.org

FALLEN FRUIT PRESENTS EATLACMA
February–November 2010
eatlacma.org

Food and art have gone together since the invention of the fig leaf. Playing the richness of LACMA’s permanent collection against the natural growth cycle and our taste buds, EATLACMA’s projects consider food as a common ground to explore the social role of art and the rituals of eating in human relations. Presented in three acts, EATLACMA is a curated set of gardens, as well as an exhibition drawn from the collection, and “Let Them Eat LACMA,” a one-day final event bringing together over fifty artists and collectives to activate, intervene, and re-imagine the entire museum’s campus and galleries. Peppered with over a dozen other talks, performances and events, EATLACMA aims to expand our perception of art, food and the museum.

Introducing EATLACMA in February are two Public Fruit Tree Adoptions, a fruit tree giveaway held at Watts Towers and the LACMA campus. Fallen Fruit will distribute free bare-root fruit trees, requesting they be planted in public space or on the perimeter of private property. These events were chosen to open EATLACMA in order to honor the beginning of the growth cycle, as well as to signal the project’s commitment to transforming neighborhood and building community. The Watts Towers Public Fruit Tree Adoption is on Saturday, Feb 6 from 12-3 and is sponsored by TreePeople Los Angeles; the address is 1761 East 107th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90059. The LACMA Public Fruit Tree Adoption is on Sunday Feb 7 from 12-3 and will take place at the Los Angeles Times Central Court at LACMA.

Join us on Sunday June 27th for the public opening of Fallen Fruit presents EATLACMA and The Gardens of LACMA. Pursuing their ongoing obsession with fruit, Fallen Fruit draws on the museum’s permanent collection to assemble work in several media (painting, photography, and decorative arts) to create The Fruit of LACMA. The exhibition includes new works from Fallen Fruit and Show Us How You Eat, a new participatory piece in which the public is invited to upload video of themselves eating. Concurrently, The Gardens of LACMA is an exhibition of six artist-designed gardens featuring the work of Didier Hess, Lauren Bon, The Roots of Compromise (Karen Atkinson, John Burtle, Ari Kletsky and Owen Driggs), Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener, Austin Young), National Bitter Melon Council (Hiroko Kikuchi, Jeremy Chi-Ming Liu, Misa Saburi, Andi Sutton) and Ã…sa Sonjasdotter –installed throughout the LACMA grounds. Each artist’s garden examines public space, the actualities and symbols of food, and the people who give these things meaning.

EAT LACMA is curated by Fallen Fruit — David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young — and LACMA curator Michele Urton. YUM!
The Planting Begins!