EATLACMA
Public Fruit Jam
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Sunday, August 1 -noon to 3pm
Artist collective Fallen Fruit invites the public to bring homegrown or street-picked fruit and participate in a collective jam making session. Participants work together without recipes to come up with unique flavors that reflect the collaborative nature of this public performance. Take home your own jar of jam.
we will be near the amphitheater behind the museum | Free, space is limited. Tickets will be handed out the day of the event with a limit of 150 per hour from 12 noon to 3 pm. Tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis; no reservations.

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Public Fruit Jam

Public Fruit Jam, collaborative performance, 2006 – ongoing
Fallen Fruit invites the public to bring home-grown or street picked fruit and collaborate with us in making a collective fruit jams. Working without recipes, we ask people to sit with others they do not already know and negotiate what kind of jam to make: if I have lemons and you have figs, we’d make lemon fig jam (with lavender). This event highlights the social and public nature of Fallen Fruit’s work, and we consider it a collaboration with the public as well as each other.

Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studios , Didier Hess , Fallen Fruit , The National Bitter Melon Council , Islands of L.A. presents the Roots of Compromise , and Åsa Sonjasdotter.

fallen fruit presents eatlacma

Join us for a picnic in the park to celebrate the opening of Fallen Fruit Presents EATLACMA
5-8 pm near the ampitheater.

June 27, 2010–November 11, 2010

EATLACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. Fusing the richness of LACMA’s permanent collection with the ephemerality of food and the natural growth cycle, EATLACMA’s projects consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. EATLACMA unfolds seasonally, with artist’s gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, hands-on public events, and a concurrent exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA (June 27-November 7, 2010). 6 artist gardens feature the work of Lauren Bon,
Didier Hess, The Roots of Compromise, National Bitter Melon Council, Fallen Fruit, and Asa Sonjosdotter .

we’ll be working with LA LOMA Development Company to create our ‘Public Fruit Theater’ at LACMA.
Come to the opening on June 27

Come pick up a tomato seedling plant, square dance with caller Susan Michaels and the old time string band Triple Chicken Foot, and take part in a Mortgage Lifter Tomato Workshop with artists Anne Hars and Stephanie Allespach. EATLACMA is a year-long project on food, art, culture and politics that unfolds seasonally, with artist’s gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, hands-on public events, and a concurrent exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents EATLACMA (June 27-November 7, 2010). EATLACMA is curated by Fallen Fruit—David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young—and LACMA curator Michele Urton.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations | Limited quantity of tomato seedlings, download tomato seedling adoption forms HERE please plan to arrive early to receive a plant on the day of the event, pending availability | The event will end at 3 pm.

Date: Saturday, May 22, 2010
Time: 12:00pm – 3:00 pm
Location: LACMA BP Plaza near the Urban Light sculpture , 5905 Wilshire Blvd, LA CA 90036

Triple Chicken Foot is a Los Angeles based Old Time stringband. Having played together for more than five years, The Foot has honed their chops and focused in on playing Old Time music rooted in tradition. Spending time with veteran players around Los Angeles and the country, they have soaked up knowledge and techniques handed down through the years. The Foot finds their voice through their repertoire of tunes and songs, be it gospel songs, archaic banjo tunes, or crooked fiddle tunes. Most recently they have become a powerful new dance band on the Square Dance & Contra scene. They are: Ben Guzmán (Guzmonster), fiddle/mandolin; Mike Heinle (Musty Carl), banjo; and Kelly Marie Martin (K. Boogie), guitar.

Anne Hars is an artist who uses her domestic environment as well as spaces in her neighborhood to create art through gardening and other means. Hars was inspired by a story about the history of the Mortgage Lifter tomato and will be holding a workshop to teach how to plant seeds in handmade newspaper pots. During the last great depression a man by the name of Radiator Charlie developed a gigantic tomato. He sold the seedlings for $1.00 a piece, an
exorbitant price for a plant at the time. He sold so many of these
seedlings he was able to pay off his mortgage of $6000.00. The folks who bought these seedlings, which became known as Mortgage Lifters, got a tomato plant that produced enough tomatoes, a pound or two each, to feed a family of six. That’s a lot food from one tomato plant!

EATLACMA was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and made possible by a Museum and Community Connections Grant from MetLife Foundation and Paramount Citrus. Additional support was provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund.
LACMA tomato seedlings provided by Anne Hars, Scott Kleinrock, Lora Hall, Staci Valentine, and Fallen Fruit.

SHOW US HOW YOU EAT
A video project by Fallen Fruit for the exhibition EATLACMA.

Open call for video submissions — Right in front of everybody, in a video on YouTube.

Videos uploaded to YouTube by May 31st, 2010, will be considered for selection to be part of the exhibition Fallen Fruit Presents EATLACMA.

We want to see you eat. We want to see you masticate.
Chomp, gnaw, nosh, dine, feast, nibble, consume, swallow, ingest, devour, munch, gobble up, pig out, chow down and polish off some food.

Show Us How You Eat is a participatory online video project, and is seeking your own videos of eating. We’re asking people to submit/upload a short single take video
of them (or their friends or family) eating – not preparing, cutting, or cooking, but actually eating, chewing and swallowing food. We want to explore the idea that though eating is universal, and images of food appears everywhere, that there are almost no images in art or popular media of people actually eating. This opportunity gives you a chance to be part of an exhibition at LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, called EATLACMA. Submitted videos will be shown on YouTube and Fallen Fruit will select a few of the videos to be included in the museum as part of a wide-ranging series of exhibitions, installations and events that examine the relationship between food, art, culture and politics.

Does everyone eat the same, or does everyone eat differently? Is eating something that connects us, or is it something that differentiates us? Show us how you eat and
tell us what you think.

For technical details and to learn more about the submission guidelines,
go to http://www.youtube.com/group/showushowyoueat

eatlacma.org
fallenfruit.org

EATLACMA was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and made possible by a Museum and Community Connections Grant from MetLife Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund and Paramount Citrus.

video credits: Fallen Fruit, Fruit Machine video, 2009

silverlakejubilee.com

The Silver Lake Jubilee is a two-day music and arts festival held in Silver Lake. Los Angeles, known for its lethargic freeways, smog and innumerable number of cars, happens to also be a city that values its green spaces, sustainability and environmental responsibility. As a first annual music and arts festival, Silver Lake Jubilee aims to continue the progression of Los Angeles as an eco-friendly city by implementing environmentally responsible initiatives before and during the festival.

No plastic water bottles
No single-use plastic bags, Styrofoam or other non-recyclable containers at festival
The festival aims to source power from alternative energy sources.Bring your own cups, reusable bags and a blank t-shirt to get a special Silver Lake Jubilee screen-printed T-shirt during the festival. A free bike valet will be available. Ride the Metro.

EVENT DATES: May 22 & 23, 2010
LOCATION: Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles

EVENT DATES: May 22 & 23 2010
LOCATION: Myra Ave.
(between Santa Monica & Fountain Ave. in the
Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles)

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