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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!

Part of Fallen Fruit Presents EATLACMA, a curated exhibition 2010

We examine the curious persistence of fruit in art by assembling work from LACMA’s permanent collection, with a span of five centuries and work in several media (painting, photography, and decorative arts). This exhibition examines the symbolic, abstract and sociological aspects of fruit in art – from religious symbolism to embedded social messages. It includes a LACMA-commissioned piece from Fallen Fruit, as well as custom-designed wall paper which David, Matias and Austin assembled from fruit found growing in the streets of their neighborhood.

EATLACMA was a yearlong residency in which Fallen Fruit created new work and curated this exhibition as well as a group of artist’s gardens and a final one-day event, Let Them Eat LACMA. It was intiated by curator Charlotte Cotton and completed with LACMA curators Michele Urton and José Luis Blondet. Visit the website www.eatlacma.org for an overview of the entire project- videos, tweets, artist’s blogs and images.

Show Us How You Eat, participatory online video project, 2010

Though there are endless images of food in art, and even still images of food in people’s mouths, we realize there is very little documentation of people actually eating.   In Show Us How You Eat we solicit participants around the world on Facebook to send us one-minute clips of them eating – not preparing, cutting, or cooking, but actually eating, chewing and swallowing food.  These clips are combined into an endless stream of smiling mastication, a meditation on the act of eating that connects each and every one of us.