Stir World feature on Fallen Fruit

LA-based collective Fallen Fruit envisions cities as communal gardens- by Daria Kravchuk,  Stir World

“I think that with a great work of art, one of the things that is required for that artwork to have is the amount of power to create the space and accommodate not just one person or one way of thinking like the academic frame of art.” – David Burns

“I think an important part of what makes the work that we do resonate with people is that we are doing very tangible things, whether it is working with fruit trees, public space and parks. But then we also work on more formal gallery and museum projects that are extremely visual and intellectual. I think it’s a combination of these qualities that allows for success to take place. We enjoy play and participation. So when we make a work of art, we are not just making something to be put inside a picture frame and then put on the wall and allow it to be described by a text. That’s fine, but that’s not actually where our heart is.”

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Endless Orchard at University of Redlands

The latest version of Endless Orchard  is being installed at Redlands University at the student run SURF program. The SURF program is the campus farm that is completely directed by student interest and at the property they grow organic food, fruits and vegetables.  The fruit trees we planted are in an area that is accessible to the public. 

With support from the Muriel Pollia Foundation, Fallen Fruit is able to install a public orchard and edible pollinator garden at the Redlands University farm property. Part of the campus at the University and also integrated into a working class neighborhood, this public orchard and edible garden is available year-round for harvesting organic herbs, edible flowers, California natives, and fruit!  Everyone is able to harvest at any time! It is in the public right of way and University of Redlands is excited and 100% supportive of this collaborative project.

We have completed phase two of the project installing 13 fruit trees at the site this past May, 2023. We have planted apricots, plums, blackberries, apples, pomegranate, persimmon, peaches, cherries, and more. In Fall of 2023 we will add in an edible perennial California natives garden that will focus on indigenous culture and the history of California.

The project is also a companion to coursework for the University and was installed with students. It is part of the undergraduate series about California history and indigenous cultures.  

We are so proud and excited to be a partner with University of Redlands and the student run farm for the campus.



Join us! at Nevada Museum of Art

Join us! save the date!

Thursday, April 6 – Pop up at First Thursday Fallen Fruit Magazine

Make a collaborative magazine about the Great Basin with artists David Burns and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit using collage making and storytelling. Everyone is welcome!

 

Friday April 7  –  Artist Talk

CULTIVATING COMMUNITY WITH FALLEN FRUIT

 

Artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young, the collaborative duo behind the artworks of Fallen Fruit, present a survey of projects that explore material, meaning, and geographical knowledge. Currently they are installing a community garden at the Nevada Museum of Art called “Monument to Sharing.” The artists consider “the public realm” as their primary artistic medium, and the artworks of Fallen Fruit investigates collaborative communities and the boundaries of public spaces through mapping fruit trees in urban areas and interrogating historical public archives. Fallen Fruit has exhibited internationally, including notable projects for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery Victoria in Melbourne, Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, amongst others. Join us in a conversation with the artists as we explore ways in which the community can inform ideas of place and a sense of connectedness in our capacity to share the world with others.



Saturday April 8- Lemonade stand! 

“Lemonade Stand”, a public participatory artwork by Fallen Fruit explores ideas of temporary community and new forms of public. In exchange for a cold glass of organic lemonade, participants are asked to create self-portraits using black ink markers on lemons and to share stories of sadness and disappointment, or happiness and positive self-reflection.

The lemon self-portraits will collectively form a group portrait of everyone who participated, illustrating some of the archetypes that construct community. Additionally, as participants are asked to record stories about neighborhood and family, the Lemonade Stand will activate the phrase… “when life gives you lemons…”

 

 

 

Recipes to Nourish Communities and Panel Talk

Recipes to Nourish Communities and Panel Talk March 5th!

We are one of the subjects of multimedia artist Taiji Terasaki latest projects, “Recipes to Nourish Communities.” Terasaki highlights the importance of nourishing the local Los Angeles community with his new Mural.
 Join us for a panel discussion on March 5th at 2pm!  Famed art critic Shana Nys Dambrot will lead a discussion with mural participants Ron Finley, Artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit, and representatives from the LA Mission and Alma Farms. With the mural and its AR component this 2023 debut ignites an important conversation complete with actionable ways to contribute to a more sustainable and sustenance-filled Los Angeles.  RSVP: HERE
The mural , executed on aluminum panels and mounted to the exterior of the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles’ (@themcla) space at 260 S. Main St., is a large collage of images that elevate the profile of four organizations/artists committed to providing access to fresh and nutritious ingredients in their corners of LA. People / organizations highlighted are Ron Finley, Alma Backyard Farms, The La Mission and Fallen Fruit.
The mural by artist Taiji Terasaki  incorporates augmented reality to enhance the story of our organizations. On-view beginning February 15th, 2023
Acknowledging that food systems and the environment are intrinsically connected, with modern-day modes of consumption having a profound effect on climate change, Terasaki reconsiders how society can balance culinary habits with the natural world. Food as a means to create positive change has long been a captivating idea for the Honolulu-based artist.

 

Timișoara Architecture Biennial

The city as a common good

September 23 through October 23, 2022

Fallen Fruit’s Monument to Sharing will be a part of the Timisoara Architecture Biennial in Romania.

MORE INFO: HERE

Beta 2022 focuses on The City as a Common Good, in an attempt to investigate the personal relationship that each of us has with the urban space in which we live and manifest. In this sense, Beta comes with concrete tools that encourage the public to become more active and to claim, along with the responsibility, their right to the city.

The general theme of this year’s edition is approached from different perspectives throughout the biennial – in a wide range of formats, some classic, others informal or experimental, like the main exhibition – Another Breach in the Wall – curated by Daniel Tudor Munteanu și Davide Tommaso Ferrando, which will be dedicated especially to the citizens.

Timișoara Architecture Biennial

The city as a common good

September 23 through October 23, 2022

Fallen Fruit’s Monument to Sharing will be a part of the Timisoara Architecture Biennial in Romania.

MORE INFO: HERE

Beta 2022 focuses on The City as a Common Good, in an attempt to investigate the personal relationship that each of us has with the urban space in which we live and manifest. In this sense, Beta comes with concrete tools that encourage the public to become more active and to claim, along with the responsibility, their right to the city.

The general theme of this year’s edition is approached from different perspectives throughout the biennial – in a wide range of formats, some classic, others informal or experimental, like the main exhibition – Another Breach in the Wall – curated by Daniel Tudor Munteanu și Davide Tommaso Ferrando, which will be dedicated especially to the citizens.

FOOD in New York

Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate
NOW AT The Museum of the City of New York – Includes art by Fallen Fruit!

Now on view

What’s for breakfast, lunch, or dinner? What we eat is one of the most important decisions we make every day. Food in New York explores the city’s raucous restaurant scene; its ubiquitous street food; current activist efforts to source food locally; and the artists, thinkers, and designers who are imagining new sustainable ways to relate to food. Get a glimpse of the exhibition and hear from MCNY Curator Monxo López and Consulting Curator Fabio Parasecoli on Pix 11. First developed at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and now adapted and updated to look at eating and food systems in the Big Apple, the exhibition is an invitation to feast for a more equitable and exciting future.


In the News
Read more about this exhibition in The New York Times6sqft, and TimeOut New York. The latter also listed the exhibition as one of the best things to do in NYC this weekend. Follow the story and connect with us @MuseumOfCityNY. Add your New York food story to the exhibition with #FoodInNYC.

Exhibition created by the V&A and the Museum of the City of New York. 

Logo for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Purple V&A Graphic

FOOD in New York

Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate
NOW AT The Museum of the City of New York – Includes art by Fallen Fruit!

Now on view

What’s for breakfast, lunch, or dinner? What we eat is one of the most important decisions we make every day. Food in New York explores the city’s raucous restaurant scene; its ubiquitous street food; current activist efforts to source food locally; and the artists, thinkers, and designers who are imagining new sustainable ways to relate to food. Get a glimpse of the exhibition and hear from MCNY Curator Monxo López and Consulting Curator Fabio Parasecoli on Pix 11. First developed at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and now adapted and updated to look at eating and food systems in the Big Apple, the exhibition is an invitation to feast for a more equitable and exciting future.


In the News
Read more about this exhibition in The New York Times6sqft, and TimeOut New York. The latter also listed the exhibition as one of the best things to do in NYC this weekend. Follow the story and connect with us @MuseumOfCityNY. Add your New York food story to the exhibition with #FoodInNYC.

Exhibition created by the V&A and the Museum of the City of New York. 

Logo for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Purple V&A Graphic

Fallen Fruit:Monument to Sharing

Fallen Fruit breaking ground at Nevada Museum of Art

September 1, 2022 – September 1, 2030

The Fallen Fruit Collective, composed of artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young, has been commissioned to create a large-scale public work of art entitled Monument to Sharing. The installation and renovation of the Wilbur D. May Sculpture Plaza are the first of a multi-phased Museum expansion scheduled for completion in early 2025.

Monument to Sharing involves planting approximately twenty-one fruit-bearing trees, a berry patch and a series of edible pollinators that the public is welcome to “harvest,” inviting guests to explore ideas of generosity, agricultural production and the meaning behind “community.”

According to the artists, pieces of “fallen fruit” can connect us in interesting ways: “We believe everyone is a collaborator in making something special – even the stranger or passerby. We believe that ‘artwork’ has a ‘resonant effect.’ Fruit is a universal gift to humanity and fruit is always political.” Both interactive and collaborative, Monument to Sharing is a unique expression of local history—especially the region’s agricultural heritage. The artists encourage guests to gently pick the fruit they need, while leaving enough to share with others.

Fallen Fruit was originally conceived in 2004 by Matias Viegener, Burns and Young. Since 2013, Burns and Young have continued the collaborative work. The collective began creating interactive installations for a project in Los Angeles for which they created maps of what the artists called “public fruit,” or fruit trees that grew over public property. The artists use cartography and geography to create serialized and site-specific works that embrace public participation. These include photographic portraits, experimental documentary videos, public art installation, exhibition projects and a community-contributed magazine specific to the installation. Using fruit — and public spaces — as a method of exploring the familiar, the collective Fallen Fruit encourages all of us to change the way we see the world.

Other public fruit parks include The Endless Orchard, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Weinland Park Berry Patch and South Side Fruit Park, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH; and Monument to Sharing, Los Angeles Historic Park. Los Angeles, CA. Installations include Paradise, Portland Art Museum, Portland. OR; CRAZY, Chiostro Del Bramante, Rome, Italy; Empire, Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA; Teatro del Sole (Theater of the Sun), Manifesta 12 Biennale, Polermo, Sicily, Italy; and Fruits from the Garden and Field, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.

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Fallen Fruit on The Kelly Clarkson Show!

Artists Create Huge Public Orchard By Mapping Where Fruit Is Available To Pick In LA

March/03/2022

Watch it here: KELLY CLARKSON SHOW WITH FALLEN FRUIT

Los Angeles-based artists Austin Young and David Burns are on a mission for everyone to have access to fresh and healthy food whenever they want through their project Fallen Fruit. The two artists founded Fallen Fruit after noticing how much unpicked fruit is going to waste on city sidewalks and alleyways. They made a map of all existing fruit trees anyone can pick from in public spaces across LA, and are now doing the same in several other cities. Along with the help of their community, Fallen Fruit has also been able to plant thousands of fruit trees all across Southern California. Watch till the end for a huge surprise!

Thank you SPROUTS!

THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW — Episode 1104 — Pictured: (l-r) Austin Young, David Burns, Kelly Clarkson — (Photo by: Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal)
THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW — Episode 1104 — Pictured: (l-r)Austin Young and David Burns — (Photo by: Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal)
THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW — Episode 1104 — Pictured: (l-r) Austin Young, David Burns, Kelly Clarkson — (Photo by: Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal)

Love Trap! Trappola d’Amore! Chiostro del Bramante

Crazy

Trappola d’Amore / Love Trap, David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit, custom asynchronous repeat pattern created by the artists and printed with archival watercolor on biodegradable cotton fabric installed onto the ceilings and walls and accessorized with complimenting refinished furniture for the historic ‘Sibille room’.

Commissioned by DART for the exhibition ‘CRAZY’, curated by Danilo Eccher, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, 2022.

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Love is many things.

Love is a spectrum.

Love is a condition that is ever-changing.

Love is a truth.

Love is a trap.

Like all of the colors of the world – love is universal, it is hard to describe and yet we all understand it without disagreement. LOVE IS: Like blue. And like red. Green and yellow. And bright orange and deep violet. All at the same time. We assign understanding without thinking about relationships in love and also we determine ideas of beauty and the sublime by using all of the colors of the world as its index. Universally, we agree about these nuanced meanings often without compromise or debate. And yet, there is function to the colors of the world. Functions that are more than about beauty. Beauty is a subjective interpretation that is continually evaluated in all places, in all emotional spaces, and in absolute real-time — simultaneously about every single thing in the entire world. The visual spectrum that represents all things of shape and form also distinguishes the differences of what is banal and what is extraordinary. And above all in exploring the meanings of our world. We all know that there are some conditions about human nature that can not be quite understood in one lifetime. The ideas that ‘love is everlasting’ and that ‘beauty is the truth’. And therefore, it’s complicated.

“Rome is amazing. Cracked our brains open, lit our souls on fire, and broke our hearts on the first day. Without trying. Damn.” That was the social media post that started the project. We walked 80 kilometers in one week. We explored every Cathedral we passed by. We listen to the sounds of the city at all times of day. We smelled the air. We asked questions. We took hundreds of photographs. We looked carefully for the things that repeat and we paid attention to things that stand out. We returned repeatedly to buildings, parks, piazzas, palazzos, historic villas, and small bistros, cafes, and bars. Over and over following the rhythms of the city. We discovered the energy that invisibility connects the public spaces and emulsifies historic ancient prescient symbolic intuitive transcendent meanings of time and space. These transparent songs of the city can be heard at all times of day and night. The follies of life are effervescent and free flowing like the eternal springs from fountains that haven’t stopped for a thousand years.

It would be madness to ignore the beauty around you. The grand beauty. The crazy beauty. The exquisite ecstasy of the moment. That is always present. Everywhere. Right now. Bellezza e Follia.

L’amore è tante cose.

L’amore è uno spettro.

L’amore è una condizione in continua evoluzione.

L’amore è una verità.

L’amore è una trappola.

Come tutti i colori del mondo, l’amore è universale. È difficile descriverlo eppure tutti lo capiamo senza divergenze. L’AMORE È: come il blu. E come il rosso. Il verde e il giallo. E l’arancione brillante e il viola intenso. È tutto, allo stesso tempo. Assegniamo significati senza pensare alle relazioni nell'amore e determiniamo anche idee di bellezza e del sublime usando tutti i colori del mondo come riferimento. Universalmente, concordiamo su queste sfumature di significato, spesso senza compromessi o discussioni. Eppure, tutti questi colori hanno uno scopo; uno che va ben oltre la bellezza. La bellezza è un’interpretazione soggettiva che viene apprezzata continuamente, in tutti i luoghi, in tutti gli spazi emotivi e in tempo reale assoluto, contemporaneamente in ogni singola cosa del mondo. Lo spettro visivo, che rappresenta tutto ciò che ha forma e sostanza, distingue anche le differenze tra ciò che è banale e ciò che è straordinario. E, soprattutto, esplora i significati del nostro mondo. Tutti noi sappiamo che esistono alcune condizioni della natura umana che non possono essere afferrate nella loro interezza, nemmeno nel corso di una vita intera. Idee come “l’amore è eterno”, o “la bellezza è la verità”. E, dunque… è complicato.
 
 

Fallen Fruit è una collaborazione artistica formatasi a Los Angeles nel 2004 tra David Burns,
Matias Vegener e Austin Young. Dal 2013 David e Austin continuano la loro carriera artistica
come duo. La loro arte ha come scopo quello di portare all’interno del museo opere inedite e
inaspettate utilizzando un medium altrettanto inconsueto: la carta da parati. Questa viene
personalizzata mediante la creazione di un pattern originale i cui elementi caratteristici
vengono di volta in volta desunti dalla realtà locale. La frutta è un vero e proprio leitmotiv
delle loro opere, sia per il significato storico ed iconografico universale che questa categoria
riveste, sia come metafora di un’identità condivisa. Una parte importante della loro ricerca
artistica, infatti, è connessa a un’idea di condivisione dello spazio e della conoscenza, che
ha portato gli artisti a proteste e alla proposta di utopici spazi condivisi. Nell’ambito della
mostra “Crazy. La follia nell’arte contemporanea” hanno invaso lo spazio relativo alla sala
delle Sibille invitando lo spettatore a entrare e a diventare protagonista di un mondo interiore
variopinto, divertente e folle.

LA MOSTRA

Dart – Chiostro del Bramante
presenta
CRAZY
La follia nell’ arte contemporanea
19.02.2022 – 08.01.2023
a Roma un grande progetto creativo ed espositivo a cura di Danilo Eccher

21 artisti di rilievo internazionale, più di 11 installazioni site-specific inedite: per la prima volta le opere d’arte invaderanno gli spazi esterni e interni del Chiostro del Bramante di Roma, perché la follia non può avere limiti.

La percezione del mondo è il primo segnale di instabilità, il primo contatto fra realtà esterna e cervello, fra verità fisica e creatività poetica, fra leggi ottiche e disturbi neurologici.

I 21 artisti chiamati a partecipare sono parte di questa follia.

Carlos Amorales, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter, Massimo Bartolini, Gianni Colombo, Petah Coyne, Ian Davenport, Janet Echelman, Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns e Austin Young, Lucio Fontana, Anne Hardy, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfredo Jaar, Alfredo Pirri, Gianni Politi, Tobias Rehberger, Anri Sala, Yinka Shonibare, Sissi, Max Streicher, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu.

Public Gathering at the Monument to Sharing

‘Public Gathering at the Monument to Sharing’ David Allen Burns and Austin Young, Fallen Fruit, 2022

“Public Gathering at the Monument to Sharing” is a digital collage made with voices recorded from our Rainbow Fruit Jam project where we ask people ‘What is Utopia?’ and also images of recontextualized anthropomorphic fruit characters originally created by the public for “Fallen Fruit Magazine” – mainly from their participatory project at the V&A Museum in London, and also various cities around the world.

The characters are gathered around the “Monument to Sharing,” the artist’s permanent installation artwork in Los Angeles’ State Historic Park. It is an installation of 32 orange trees meant to be shared with everyone. This image was created in 2021 to celebrate the launch of the Endless Orchard – Fallen Fruit’s collaborative non-contiguous public sharing orchard. Join them in creating the largest edible artwork in the world.

The NFT is available at http://www.culturvault.com

Voice recording by Fallen Fruit from their public participatory project, Rainbow Jam, commissioned by University of California, Irvine, USA, 2016. Music by Andrew Stanley (of Yolanda Be Cool).

Fallen Fruit of Victorville

 We planted a bunch of new fruit trees in March, 2022 in Old Town Victorville. Fallen Fruit with support from Old Town Victorville and San Bernardino Arts, #cityofvv!

Check out this video that documents the tree planting and highlights the importance of fruit trees to our community.

Fallen Fruit is featured on “Hope Builders,” highlighting organizations doing good in San Bernardino, for the KVCR PBS station.  This episode is directed by Maria Burton.  Hope Builder  (all 6 pieces with an intro by Christine Lahti) aired in January, 2020.  Features our public fruit park we created with SB Arts Connection  during our project “Fallen Fruit of San Bernardino.

ENDLESS ORCHARD / CREATIVE CAPITAL LAUNCH and Fruit Tree Adoption

Endless Orchard

ENDLESS ORCHARD by FALLEN FRUIT
Launch Celebration and a Public Call to Action

What if we make the world more abundant? What if we foster community and literally upend food shortages from the ground up? What if “farm to table” could become as easy as foraging around your own neighborhood? Simply walk down the street to pick an apple for a snack? It’s all possible with the Endless Orchard, the world’s largest collaborative public artwork –a noncontiguous global fruit orchard planted, mapped, shared, and cared for by everyone who participates.  

Image credit: courtesy of Fallen Fruit. Join us for a public gathering and fruit tree adoption at the Monument to Sharing on November 13 at Los Angeles State Historic Park (LASHP)


A PUBLIC CALL TO ACTION: We invite everyone to join in expanding the Endless Orchard. It is easy to participate, plant a fruit tree next to the sidewalk, or along a fence near your home, school, community center, or business so it is accessible in the public right-of-way. Water and care for your tree and map it on the website EndlessOrchard.com to share with your neighbors. People without access to plantable space can identify pre-existing fruit trees in your area and map them online.


Fallen Fruit aims to position this project globally and engage communities around the world with the idea that generosity begets generosity. “Sharing is the definition of culture. Time, ritual, common interests, a meal, geography. It’s all about sharing.” — Fallen Fruit

During the pandemic, our collective experiences of everyday life have become more meaningful. Our need to be social and go outside became essential. As food shortages erupted due to quarantine related closures and global supply chains were interrupted, the drive to eat hyperlocale and growing edible gardens exploded.

“We have already established public fruit parks in 19 different cities across the United States. Fruit tree plantings have been initiated across Southern California including Culver City, San Diego, Torrance, Riverside, San Bernardino, Downtown Los Angeles, Westlake, and across the United States in Buffalo, Columbus, New Orleans, Omaha, San Diego, Philadelphia, New York City, and more. What we’re excited about is that these fruit trees will be here for generations. In many cases, the project sites have been declared as works of art, so that those spaces must persist in the public realm as a place for sharing. The fruit trees would be replaced if necessary.” -Fallen Fruit 

 A forthcoming downloadable PDF will include all of our instructions on planting trees and sharing with the Endless Orchard.

LOVE IS MY SUPERPOWER courtesy of Fallen Fruit

“The Endless Orchard is linked to ideas of place and history, and echoes a sense of connectedness with something very primal – our capacity to share with others” – Fallen Fruit

ABOUT ENDLESS ORCHARD: 

ENDLESS ORCHARD by Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young) is a Creative Capital awarded project and is funded by Creative Capital, and The Muriel Pollia Foundations. The Endless Orchard website was designed and developed in partnership with Code Rodeo. The public fruit tree adoption on November 13th is in honor of Jerry Ludders and is funded by the Muriel Pollia Foundation.

CONTACT INFO: 

Please contact Austin, David, and Sue-Na at [email protected].

PUBLIC EVENT IN LOS ANGELES: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2021 — at LOS ANGELES STATE HISTORIC PARK (LASHP)

PUBLIC GATHERING AND PUBLIC FRUIT ADOPTION:

Join Los Angeles-based artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young from Fallen Fruit on November 13th at the Monument to Sharing in Los Angeles State Historic Park (LAHSP) located at 1245 N Spring St, Los Angeles for a Fruit Tree Adoption and public gathering to celebrate the ENDLESS ORCHARD from 2pm until sunset.

Help us expand local access to public fruit by adding 100 new public fruit trees to the greater Los Angeles region and mapping the trees at EndlessOrchard.com. Endless Orchard Fruit Tree Adoption is limited to the first 100 RSVPs. Recipients are required to be able to plant trees in or on the margins of public space, to ensure that the fruit will remain permanently accessible to the public, and must agree to map their trees with EndlessOrchard.com. To RSVP for the fruit tree adoption, send an email to [email protected], with ‘Fruit Tree Adoption’ in the subject line and include the property address and the location of the planting area and/or photograph.

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ABOUT FALLEN FRUIT

Fallen Fruit (artist duo David Allen Burns and Austin Young) is a collaborative art project that began in Los Angeles with creating maps of public fruit: the fruit trees growing on or over public property. Their work explores participatory art practice, reflecting upon a broader, global environmental movement involving contemporary art and public spaces. Fallen Fruit uses geography and history as indexical tools to create serialized and site-specific works of art that often embrace public participation. The work of Fallen Fruit includes public art projects (Public Fruit Jam, Lemonade Stand, Fallen Fruit Magazine), site specific commissions (Monument to Sharing, Stoneview Nature Center, Theater of The Sun), and museum art installations (NGV Triennial, V&A Museum’s “ FOOD: Bigger Than the Plate,” Empire, The Practices of Everyday Life, EatLACMA). 

Fallen Fruit has been recently featured in “What Artists Are doing Now,” Arterritory; Best of LA Arts, LA Weekly; 15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch, ARTnews (Cover); Artforum (Critic’s Pick); Consumed, New York Times Magazine; “Tasty and Subversive Too”, The New York Times;  Conde Nast Traveler “18 Best Shows in London;” “Food Matters,” The New York Times; and “How Fallen Fruit is Changing the Art World & Life in LA,” LA Confidential (Cover and Feature). Their work has also been featured in such book publications as The Idea of the West by Doug Aitken, The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design by Francesco Spampinato (Princeton Architectural Press) as well as numerous broadcast radio, TV, video and blog venues.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Allen Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David Allen Burns and Austin Young have continued and expanded the collaborative work

, IMAGE CREDIT: MONUMENT TO SHARING, 2017, LASHP, courtesy of Fallen Fruit

ABOUT THE MONUMENT TO SHARING: Established in 2017, Monument to Sharing is a permanent public artwork by Fallen Fruit composed of community sourced phrases that wrap around thirty-two public orange trees. The interviews were gathered while planting publicly accessible fruit trees in front of homes and businesses within walking distance of LASHP, the phrases create a poem that describes what it means to be a great neighbor.  

Vallarta Botanical Gardens

Opening November 2, 2021 , Vallarta Botanical Gardens

A new, permanent immersive artwork by Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young.  

Fallen Fruit
IMAGE CREDIT: Detail from the artwork installation, Los Angelitos de México. Custom made wallcovering, archival watercolor inks printed onto natural fabrics. Dimensions variable. David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit, 2021.

Los Angelitos de México, 2021

David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit

Custom made wallcovering, archival watercolor inks printed onto natural fabrics. Dimensions variable.

An immersive installation artwork created by the artists specifically for the chapel at the Vallarta Botanical Gardens, outside of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This unique asynchronous wall coverings source’s materials from hundreds of original photographs taken by the artists in the gardens at different times of year — as well as historic watercolors and lithographs, by Mexican botanist Rafael Montes de Oca and English ornithologist John Gould, respectively. Orchids and hummingbirds dance around the interior spaces intermixed with seasonal favorites from the botanical collection. The extraordinary flora and fauna naturalized by this exotic setting is permanently embellished into the interior spaces of the chapel and contextualized by never ending organically merging colorfields. The natural world turned inside out.

The Vallarta Botanical Garden is a 64-acre botanical garden at 1,300 ft above sea level, near Puerto Vallarta. The garden was founded in 2004 and has been open to the public since 2005.

Carretera Puerto Vallarta, Carr. Costera a Barra de Navidad Km 24, 48425 Jal., Mexico +52 322 223 6182

ULTRA! at Torrance Art Museum

ACROSS TORRANCE + MAIN GALLERY:

a new public art exhibition with Torrance Art Museum including a new public artwork ‘Lago Seco Fruit Trail’ by Fallen Fruit!

JULY 17 – AUGUST 28, 2021

more info http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/ultra

An adventurous new public art exhibition featuring more than 20 artworks from some of the region’s most exciting contemporary artists in accessible locations throughout Torrance. Sculpture, installation, video projection, and interactive experiences are among the works that visitors will find in various parks, storefronts, schools, and government buildings.

Torrance Art Museum serves as the hub station. The Main Gallery will feature additional works by some of the Ultra! artists, providing a wonderful complement to the other locations.

Ultra! Featured Artists:Luciana Abait, Richard Ankrom, Badly Licked Bear, Joshua Beliso, Reed van Brunschot, Juan Capistran, Ana Carolina Estarita-Guerrero, Fallen Fruit, Finishing School, Jeff Frost, Narsiso Martinez, Julie Orser, Matthew Pagoaga, Esther Ruiz, Abram Santa Cruz, Sonja Schenk, Allison Stewart, Jan van der Ploeg, Dan S Wang, Glen Wilson, and Yarn Bombing LA.

Join us for these Ultra! Events taking place at Torrance Art Museum.

Saturday, July 17 at 12pm
Ultra! Kickoff & Museum Reopening Ceremony
Live Performances & Installations by:
High Beams Project, Yozmit, Zac Monday, Mary Anna Pomonis, and Justin Stadel.

Saturday, August 21 at 3pm
Ultra! Extra
Live Performances by:
Ibuki Kuramochi and Beck+Col with Tetiana Sklyarova and Kayla Aguila.

Peoples Score

Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young). “PEOPLE POWER,” performance score generated with a public call for participation, dimensions variable, created for Time in this Time, 2021.

A collaborative score

In simple language, using short sentences, Fallen Fruit asked people to tell them what they know best about being a great person. The duo then created a new score with the answers.

Fallen Fruit prompted contributors:

“It can be thoughts from recent weeks or the past months—or maybe it is something you learned from your family or mentor … or also, from another time in your life when you really learned: 

How to be a great version of YOU.”
‍For example:
“My mother taught me to always mind my own business and to always love myself.”“(I started to) take a short walk everyday at a different time of day and never choose the destination in advance, (I just) wander… and openly explore the world each day.”Or, “Sometimes, I tell my cats all of my secrets….”

— Fallen Fruit

WIE IM PARADIES

LIKE IN PARADISE

HÖHENRAUSCH Museum, Linz, Austria

OPENS MAY 6, 2021

Fragrant love poems, a garden of mirrors with cherry trees, an artificial flock of birds as a tree of memory, a growing artwork of artificial fertilizer, and fans ecstatically singing Madonna songs:

Fallen Fruit, along with more than 40 international artists have transformed HÖHENRAUSCH into a realm that’s just like paradise with their enchanting projects, offering spaces for personal dreams and peeking behind the facades of commercial illusions.

LIKE IN PARADISE: Today, the term is an integral part of our everyday culture and consumer world. Whether  we use the word as a designation for shopping malls, holiday destinations, or swinger clubs, we create our own “artificial paradises” that give us, or at least promise, brief moments of bliss.

The multi-part exhibition trail leads through the OK Center, onto the rooftops of Linz, up atop the historical attics of the former Ursuline convent into the Ursuline Church. Unforgettable impressions for young and old!

curators: Martin Sturm, Rainer Zendron

Duftende Liebesgedichte, ein Spiegelgarten mit Kirschbäumen, ein künstlicher Vogelschwarm als Baum der Erinnerung, ein wachsendes Kunstwerk aus Kunstdünger und Fans, die verzückt Lieder von Madonna singen: Mehr als 40 internationale Künstler*innen verwandeln den HÖHENRAUSCH in ein weltliches Paradies,  entwickeln Räume für individuelle Träume und blicken hinter die Fassaden käuflicher Illusionen.

WIE IM PARADIES: Heutzutage ist der Begriff „Paradies“ fest im „Diesseits“ verankert und ein fixer Bestandteil unserer Alltagskultur und Konsumwelt geworden. Ob als Bezeichnung für Einkaufszentren, Urlaubsziele oder Swingerclubs: Wir schaffen uns „künstliche Paradiese“, die Momente der Glückseligkeit schenken oder diese wenigstens versprechen.

Der mehrteilige Ausstellungsparcours führt durch die Räume des OK hinauf auf die Dächer von Linz und über die Dachböden des ehemaligen Ursulinenklosters in die Ursulinenkirche. Unvergessliche Eindrücke für Groß und Klein!

Kuratoren: Martin Sturm, Rainer Zendron

NGV TRIENNIAL 2020: FALLEN FRUIT: Virtual tour

Take a virtual tour of ‘Natural History’ by Fallen Fruit / David Burns and Austin Young. A new artwork commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne for the Triennial 2020. The wall text for the ‘Natural History’ triptych are below. https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/virtual-tours/triennial-2020-fallen-fruit/

Natural History , 2020, Fallen Fruit artist collective, United States est. 2004 
David Allen Burns artist , United States born 1970 
Austin Young artist ,United States born 1966 

The overview of the Virtual Tour.

Natural History, 2020, Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young

Central to the work of Los Angeles–based art collective Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young) is the desire to create beautiful and sumptuous spaces where audiences can enjoy museum collections in new, unexpected ways that simultaneously reveal a series of layered social constructs.

Using the medium of wallpaper, Fallen Fruit creates unique designs inspired by seemingly local flora and fauna. Natural History, 2020, takes its subject matter from Australia, and critically combines introduced species of birds and plants together with indigenous ones, many of them drawn from images held in the NGV Collection.  

As an immersive environment, Natural History also includes works from the NGV Collection, creating completely new visual and cultural contexts in which to view canonical European and Australian paintings and sculptures. Seeing the artworks in this new way helps draw into question the preconceived knowledge and ideas that usually frame our understanding of art, history, place, indigeneity and colonialism.

Fallen Fruit critically revisits and questions a range of issues in Natural History, including exacerbated  colonialism and its social constructs with regards the classification of the natural world, narrative depictions of religion and the supernatural in art.  In the artists’ selection, organsation and juxtaposition of historical artworks from the NGV Collection combined with their wallpaper, contemporary disruptions and perspectives on race, class, gender and sexuality emerge.   

Natural History  2020 , digital prints (and found objects from the NGV collection), Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne , Natural History 2020 is supported by Nicholas Perkins and Paul Banks , Collection of the artists  

FALLEN FRUIT E14 didactic on exterior wall, entrance to NGVI/L2/E14 
Original artist drawing for ‘Naturalized plants,’ by Fallen Fruit, elevation 3 room E14C

Naturalised plants (Royal Botanic Gardens) room E14A

The images on this wallpaper comprise a pattern of roses and other non-native plantsrepresenting European ideals materialized in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, alongside with fruits and flowers from the streets of inner-city Collingwood. The pattern images from photographs by the artists simultaneously represent colonizers’ social constructs regarding the ‘naturalization’ of plants as well as the adaptive powers of introduced species conducive to urban and rural environments. 

Naturalised plants (Royal Botanic Gardens) 2020  Room E14A, 2020 , digital prints (and found objects from the NGV collection) Collection of the artists 

Detail of wall covering for ‘Native Plants’ room E14B

Native plants (Cranbourne Gardens) This pattern from Fallen Fruit photographs taken at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne,  2020 freatures banksias, kangaroo paws, and others that are among the hundreds of indigenous species being preserved in this ecosystem.  Many artifacts in dialogue with the wallpaper here are European artifacts brought to Australia with limited cultural context and thus mis-identified. 

Native plants (Cranbourne Gardens)  room E14 B , 2020, digital print (and found objects from the NGV collection), Collection of the artists 

Original artist rendering for ‘Sketchbooks and drawings’ featuring all the E14C elevations.

Sketchbooks and drawings (National Gallery of Victoria) is a pattern created from historic botanical drawings, notebooks and sketchbooks held in the NGV Collection. The intricately drawn birds, insects, and eucalypts and other indigenous shrubs creates an atmosphere that the artists speculate existed before and during the time of settlement. 

Sketchbooks and drawings (National Gallery of Victoria) room E14C, 2020, digital print (with found objects from the NGV Collection) Collection of the artists 

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The NGV Triennial brings contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue, offering a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of the world at this time. Featuring major new commissions and recent works that span geography, perspective and genre, the exhibition celebrates the work of some of the world’s most accomplished artists and designers, while also giving voice to emerging practitioners.

_____________________ 

Time in this time

A Time capsule for the present. An online project – As told by artists and creators. Curated works for the present.

A question from #fallenfruit we want to hear from you. In simple language, share what you know best about being an extraordinary person. It can be thoughts from recent weeks or the past months, or maybe something you learned from family or a mentor. Give the insights that only you know best, and Fallen Fruit will create one of our signature scores with the answers we receive. Put your answer below or go to timeinthistime.com and email [email protected] your answer #timeinthistime #fallenfruit

check it out HERE

Time in this time

a time capsule for the present

An online project – As told by artists and creators. Curated works for the present.

“Time has been doing strange things lately — things it’s always done. Moving slowly, looping around, flying by. We invited 9 artists and creators whose practices include time-based works, to make works on time in this time.” – @Harvest

check it out HERE

MELBOURNE NGV Triennial

19 DEC 2020 – 18 APR 2021

We are excited and grateful that our artwork is a part of the NGV Triennial.

www.ngv.vic.gov.au

The NGV Triennial brings contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue, offering a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of the world at this time. Featuring major new commissions and recent works that span geography, perspective and genre, the exhibition celebrates the work of some of the world’s most accomplished artists and designers, while also giving voice to emerging practitioners.

What Artists Are Doing Now. Fallen Fruit interview in Arterritory.com

Read our new interview HERE

What Artists Are Doing Now. Contemporary art collective Fallen Fruit in Los Angeles

 

“Fear is very easy to grow. Love is also very easy to grow. We are focused on promoting messages of love and joy. A fruit tree is a great symbol of generosity. And fruit trees are endlessly giving (fruit) without expecting anything in return. :)” – David and Austin of Fallen Fruit

Sunday Salon and Endless Orchard Fruit Tree Adoption February 23

Join us! Sunday February 23rd 1-4pm

It’s the LAST DAY to visit SUPERSHOW. We’ll hang out, talk about art and fruit. There will be tarot readings, teas and cakes. This event is FREE to the public. If you want to adopt a fruit tree for sharing with your neighborhood read the info below:
The Endless Orchard Fruit Tree Adoption!
Collaborate with us! Adopt a Fruit Tree to share with neighbors.

PDC | Design Gallery

8687 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, California 90069

RSVP us at [email protected]. and put your name on the list for a Fruit Tree!
· “Adopt” a tree: If you have a home or business, or community center in Los Angeles.
· The Tree is Accessible: You have space in the front of your yard next to the sidewalk.
· Care for the tree: You must agree to water the tree for the first two years.
· Share the bounty!  You must agree to share the fruit with everyone. The tree will be part of the Endless Orchard Map (endlessorchard.com) and part of a network of shared of trees.

 

 

 

 

 

Hope Builders: Fallen Fruit – PBS PSA

Fallen Fruit is featured on “Hope Builders,” highlighting organizations doing good in San Bernardino, for the KVCR PBS station.  This episode is directed by Maria Burton.  Hope Builder  (all 6 pieces with an intro by Christine Lahti) aired in January, 2020.  Features our public fruit park we created with SB Arts Connection  during our project “Fallen Fruit of San Bernardino.”

Plan(e)t – Fallen Fruit art installation in Tel Aviv!

Plan(e)t
Opens January 8th, 2020
Artists:
Fallen Fruit – David Allen Burns and Austin Young // Dr. Dafna Langgut // Dr. Yasmine Meroz // Liat Segal // Noam Rabinovich // Stéphane Thidet // Relli de Vries // Onya Collective- Heela Harel and Gil Harabaqiu
Chief Curators: Dr. Tamar Mayer and Dr. Sefy Hendler
Assistant Curator: Yifat Pearl
The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery
and Michel Kikoïne Foundation at Tel Aviv University, Israel

Fallen Fruit V&A Magazine – PART ll

The Largest Collaborative Zine ever made! Thank you for participating and/or enjoying it!  #fallenfruit #vamfamilies

 FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE V&A PART II

here is Part 1:

  FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE of the V&A PART I

Thanks everyone for participating and making the largest ever collaborative zine with us along with V&A Families team. We had so much fun with you! We will upload a link soon– where the magazine can be purchased as a hard bound book.  Sign up for our email list below and we’ll update you when it’s available and check out our exclusive V&A merch in the V&A Store.

Love,

Austin and David

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Fallen Fruit Magazine:  V&A Edition brings together public participation, local histories and story-telling. Using strategies of collage this temporary team of culture advocates use fruit as a symbol, object and/or subject to create original editorial content to produce a site-specific limited edition contemporary culture magazine. Each edition is unique and is editorially focused to topics and subject matter that is historically meaningful to a neighborhood and/ or region. For the ‘Victoria and Albert Edition,’ we collaborated with the Families Programme at the V&A in South Kensington, during the spring and summer of 2019 in London on The Imagination Station.

V&A Families programme:  The V&A Families programme nurtures imagination, creativity and intergenerational play, developing innovative partnerships with practitioners to deliver thought-provoking and multi-sensory activities that foster a life-long love of learning.  #vamfamilies

Austin Young and David Burns, Collectively know as Fallen Fruit are included in the exhibition:   FOOD BIGGER THAN THE PLATE 

#fallenfruit  / fallenfruit.org / endlessorchard.com / fallen_fruit 

FOOD BIGGER THAN THE PLATE  was curated by Catherine Flood and May Rosenthal Sloan  The exhibition invited visitors to participate, taste and debate, this bold exhibition explores current experiments at every stage of the food system – from compost to table.  #plateup

 

You can take part in Fallen Fruit’s collective mapping and planting experience, the Endless Orchard, which explores the meaning of community through creating and sharing fruit trees:“Plant a fruit tree near your home. Share your fruit!”.

Fallen Fruit V&A Magazine: Edition 2


Download our new zine! right here:

FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE V&A PART II

and here is Part 1:

  FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE of the V&A PART I

Thanks everyone for participating and making this with us along with V&A Families team. We had so much fun with you! We will upload a link in the next few days – where the magazine can be purchased as a hard bound book.  Sign up for our email list below and we’ll update you when it’s available and check out our exclusive merch in the V&A Store.

Love,

Austin and David

SUPERSHOW by Fallen Fruit at the PDC Design Gallery

SUPERSHOW

Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young 

October 3, 2019 – February 23, 2020

VISTOR HOURS
PDC Design Gallery is free and open to the public.
Tuesday – Friday | 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Saturday – Sunday | 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Valet, garage, and street parking are available.


Photo Credits: Fallen Fruit, David Burns and Austin Young

FRUIT is one of the rare things in this world that is a subject and an object at the same time. Fruit is also personal, emotional, and relatable to most every person on this planet. Fruit is always political but these cultural histories are often left behind and replaced by aesthetics; color, taste, scent and memory.

 

For this project, the artists investigate qualities of aesthetics. “We are curious about meaning and memory. About how familiar objects move around the world. About how the origin story, the cultural politics, the geographical histories of something can become displaced and often are replaced by superficiality or aesthetics. In the 21st century, we wonder, what is it that makes something beautiful? or sublime? Is it possible to reframe these qualities and meanings that shift through time and space? And will beauty persist? ” 

The installation is composed of multiple patterns created from hundreds of original photographs the artists have created for different cities in the world selected from recent commissioned exhibition projects listed below. In this expression of recent projects about geographical histories, the artists are exploring how meaning shifts through time and space and how beauty in the everyday is celebrated around the world. 

The installation artwork is unified with a gradient background of merging color fields moving through the visual spectrum. Details in the artwork are universal — Bananas and birds are comfortable and welcoming alongside flowers and fig trees that the artists discovered and photographed along plazas, sidewalks and alleys nearby ancient roman monuments. Familiar domestic objects and repurposed found furniture invite viewers and guests to take a few minutes to relax and merge with the installation.

The artists have recontextualized excerpts from selected recent artworks created for Manifesta 12 biennale for Palermo, Italy 2018, the V&A Museum in London, England 2019 and Kunsthall 3.14 in Bergen, Norway 2019. Additional objects and research, includes selected works from commissioned projects “The Practices of Everyday Life” created for 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, “Block After Block” for the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and “Paradise” for the Portland Art Museum, among others. 

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Gallery information or to be invited to submit an exhibit proposal, please contact [email protected]
Media Contact: K+J Agency at [email protected]

PRESS RELEASE: 

Inaugural Opening: Cohen Design Gallery at Pacific Design Center

 

SUPERSHOW

Fallen Fruit, David Burns and Austin Young

 

Reception: Thursday, September 26, 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Cohen Design Gallery at Pacific Design Center is pleased to announce the opening of its exhibition space located in the former MOCA building on the San Vicente side of the Pacific Design Center. Programming will engage artists, guest curators, organizations and leading academic institutions to draw upon the collective intelligence and creativity of California’s vast design culture as well as international design invention and innovation. The gallery’s aim is to explore design as an extension of artistic practice, advancing art and design practice, architecture and the decorative arts.

 

In collaboration with Milan-based curator Helen Varola and art advisor Jeffrey Deitch, programming comprises three exhibits per year and includes a summer student MFA exhibition curated by noted design dealer Craig Appelbaum (named among Art + Auction’s Power 100 of 2015).

 

The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, SUPERSHOW, features the work of Los Angeles-based artists Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young) and opens Thursday, September 26 with a reception from 5:00 – 10:00 pm with a special performance by Fallen Fruit, “Fruit Cocktail”. The exhibition will run through December.

 

SUPERSHOW explores participatory design practice, reflecting upon a broader, controversial global environmental movement involving food production. As food is inextricably bound to identity, small-scale self sufficient organic farming is becoming a means for cultural rediscovery, invigorating the politics of both left and right and going far beyond community gardening.

Using the subject of fruit as a cultural object to investigate the design of public space and collective experience, Fallen Fruit taps into urban agriculture, a growing global force highlighted recently in London at the Victoria & Albert Museum’s “FOOD: Bigger Than the Plate,” an exhibition featuring artwork by Fallen Fruit. 

SUPERSHOW consists of Fallen Fruit’s intensive research and materials from recently commissioned artworks with a two-part exhibition, one in which a new immersive installation is specially created for the gallery and second, a survey from selected recent projects that builds upon the visual vocabulary and material palettes from recent projects. 

The first part of the exhibition consists of new wallpaper covering the walls and ceiling and custom furniture to create an immersive installation artwork . Other works include, wall coverings, textiles, plates, framed artworks, and one-of-a-kind refinished vintage furniture pieces.

 

Another component of the exhibition presents recent work from Fallen Fruit’s installations to include Teatro del Sole created for Manifesta 12 at Palazzo Butera, Palermo, selections from EMPIRE created for Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, and The Practices of Everyday Life commissioned by 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville.

 

Participatory projects will be programmed during the run of the exhibition and will be open to everyone of all ages. Public Participatory Projects include a Public Fruit Tree Adoption where residents of Los Angeles are invited to expand Fallen Fruit’s Endless Orchard project awarded by Creative Capital (event dates to be announced).

 

Fallen Fruit has been recently featured in 15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch, ARTnews (Cover);  Artforum  (Critic’s Pick), “Tasty and Subversive Too”, The New York Times,  Conde Nast Traveler “18 -best shows in London”,  “Food Matters” The New York Times. LA Confidential (Cover and Feature), “How Fallen Fruit is Changing the Art World & Life in LA.” Their work has been featured in The Idea of the West by Doug Aitken and numerous other publications The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design by Francesco Spampinato (Princeton Architectural Press) as well as numerous broadcast radio, TV, video and blog venues.

 

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.

DAVID BURNS BIO

David Burns received a BFA from CalArts and MFA from UC Irvine and he currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His video work has been shown in exhibitions including The Getty Center, Los Angeles, The Tate Modern/Tank.tv, London, The Armenian Museum of Experimental Art and Seoul Museum of Art, Korea.

 

Burns’ art projects have appeared at The Athens Biennale, Greece, Ars Electronica, Austria, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Netherlands Architecture Institute at Maastricht, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Armory Center for the Arts, Machine Project, and Artists Space in New York. 

 

Recent curatorial projects include: Artists + Institutions: Common Ground with Sarah Beadle, Schindler House, Los Angeles and Let Them Eat LACMA with Jose Luis Blondet and awards include: Creative Capital, Rhizome.org New Media; Best Experimental, Berkeley Film Festival, and Sydney Underground Film Festival.

 

Reviews and publications of Burn’s recent work includes The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art Forum, Artillery, X-tra, Cabinet, Paper, Rhizome, The L.A. Weekly and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.

 

AUSTIN YOUNG BIO

Austin young is from Reno, Nevada and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. The foundation of his career is from studying at Parsons in Paris. Early in his career, Austin transferred his interests from traditional portrait painting towards a long celebrated career in portrait photography. In many ways, Austin is more accurately described as an image-maker: his projects illustrate the sublime qualities of character that make celebrated people unique. Based on a nuanced visual language of pop-culture iconography, his trademark style and techniques have captured a broad palette of musicians, artists and celebrities including Debbie Harry, Leigh Bowery and Margaret Cho, among others. In multiple bodies of work, Austin confuses personality and identity issues in confrontational and unapologetic image making about people who often split gender roles, stereotypical constraints and socially-constructed identities.  austinyoung.com and austinyoungforever on instagram

 

ABOUT COHEN DESIGN GALLERY

Cohen Design Gallery is the brainchild of Charles S. Cohen, owner of the Pacific Design Center. Cohen is an American real estate developer, film distributor and producer, and patron of the arts. Cohen serves on the board of trustees of the Lighthouse Guild, Real Estate Board of New York, Museum of Art and Design, New York and The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). Most recently, the Republic of France awarded Cohen the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.

 

The gallery is free and open to the public and gallery hours are Monday – Saturday from 11:00 am – 5 pm. Valet, garage, and street parking are available and complimentary parking for press is available by calling the PDC Parking Office one day in advance Monday – Friday at 310-360-6417.

 

 

Bergen Norway becomes part of the Endless Orchard!

Bergens Tidende -Bergen today:
‘Bergen Municipality and Kunsthall 3.14 have joined forces to become part of Fallen Fruit‘s project Endlessorchard.com to create the world’s largest orchard.’

https://www.kunsthall314.art/fallen-fruit-bergen  

 

SUPERSHOW at PDC Design Gallery in Los Angeles

SUPERSHOW

an exhibition by Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young)

October 3 – February 23

PDC Design Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, SUPERSHOW, features the work of Los Angeles-based artists Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young) and opens Thursday, October 3 with a reception from 5:00 – 10:00 pm and includes “Fruit Cocktail,” a special performance by Fallen Fruit. The exhibition will be on view until February 23, 2020.

SUPERSHOW Explores Fallen Fruit’s contemporary art practice, reflecting upon a broader, controversial global environmental movement involving food production. As food is inextricably bound to identity, small-scale self sufficient organic farming is becoming a means for cultural rediscovery, invigorating the politics of both left and right and going far beyond community gardening.

Using the subject of fruit as a cultural object to investigate the design of public space and collective experience, Fallen Fruit taps into urban agriculture, a growing global force highlighted recently in London at the Victoria & Albert Museum’sFOOD: Bigger Than the Plate,” an exhibition featuring artwork by Fallen Fruit.



 

 SUPERSHOW activates never before shown artworks and builds upon the visual vocabulary and material palettes from David and Austin’ (Fallen Fruit) back catalogue of intensive research based installations from recent commissioned projects. The exhibition will consist of recontextualized materials, a new wallpaper pattern created for Los Angeles, one-of-a-kind refinished vintage furniture pieces, and found objects. Other works include, wall coverings, textiles, plates, and framed artworks.

The exhibition presents recent works from Fallen Fruit’s installations, including Teatro del Sole created for Manifesta 12 at Palazzo Butera,  Spectro Completo, for Orto Botanico, Palermo,  selections from EMPIRE created for Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, The Practices of Everyday Life commissioned by 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, and All Tomorrow’s Parties commissioned by Beth De Woody, for The Bunker in West Palm Beach.  

Theater of the Sun by Fallen Fruit, at Palazzo, Butera commissioned by Manifesta 12

 Participatory projects will be programmed during the run of the exhibition and will be open to everyone of all ages. Public Participatory Projects include a Public Fruit Tree Adoption where residents of Los Angeles are invited to expand Fallen Fruit’s Endless Orchard [..2] (endlessorchard.com) project awarded by Creative Capital (event dates to be announced).

 Fallen Fruit has been recently featured in15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch, ARTnews (Cover); Artforum (Critic’s Pick);“Tasty and Subversive Too”, The New York Times;  Conde Nast Traveler “18 Best Shows in London;” “Food Matters,” TheNew York Times and LA Confidential (Cover and Feature), “How Fallen Fruit is Changing the Art World & Life in LA.” Their work has also been featured in such book publications as The Idea of the West by Doug Aitken, The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design by Francesco Spampinato (Princeton Architectural Press) as well as numerous broadcast radio, TV, video and blog venues.

 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.

DAVID BURNS BIO

David Burns received a BFA from CalArts and MFA from UC Irvine and he currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His video work has been shown in exhibitions including The Getty Center, Los Angeles, The Tate Modern/Tank.tv, London, The Armenian Museum of Experimental Art and Seoul Museum of Art, Korea.

 Burns’ art projects have appeared at The Athens Biennale, Greece, Ars Electronica, Austria, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Netherlands Architecture Institute at Maastricht, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Armory Center for the Arts, Machine Project, and Artists Space in New York. Recent curatorial projects include: Artists + Institutions: Common Ground with Sarah Beadle, Schindler House, Los Angeles and Let Them Eat LACMA with Jose Luis Blondet and awards include: Creative Capital, Rhizome.org New Media; Best Experimental, Berkeley Film Festival, and Sydney Underground Film Festival. Reviews and publications of Burn’s recent work include The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art Forum, Artillery, X-tra, Cabinet, Paper, Rhizome, The L.A. Weekly and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.

 AUSTIN YOUNG BIO

Austin Young is originally from Reno, Nevada and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His study at Parsons in Paris, France laid the foundations of a career in image-making that has spanned traditional portrait painting and photography, culminating in his signature use of nuanced visual language and pop-culture iconography. His trademark style and techniques have captured a broad palette of musicians, artists and celebrities including Debbie Harry, Leigh Bowery and Margaret Cho, among others. Austin (austinyoung.com and austinyoungforever on instagram) often confuses personality and identity issues confrontationally and unapologetically in works that split gender roles, stereotypical constraints and socially-constructed identities.

 

Fallen Fruit Magazine V&A Edition

 


Download our new zine! right here:

FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE V&A PART II

 



Download our new zine! right here:

  FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE of the V&A, Part I

Thanks everyone for participating and making this with us along with V&A Families team. We had so much fun with you! We will upload a link in the next few days – where the magazine can be purchased as a hard bound book.  Sign up for our email list below and we’ll update you when it’s available and check out our exclusive merch in the V&A Store.

Love,

Austin and David

Subscribe




Fallen Fruit Magazine:  V&A Edition brings together public participation, local histories and story-telling. Using strategies of collage this temporary team of culture advocates use fruit as a symbol, object and/or subject to create original editorial content to produce a site-specific limited edition contemporary culture magazine. Each edition is unique and is editorially focused to topics and subject matter that is historically meaningful to a neighborhood and/ or region. For the ‘Victoria and Albert Edition,’ we collaborated with the Families Programme at the V&A in South Kensington, London on The Imagination Station.

V&A Families programme:  The V&A Families programme nurtures imagination, creativity and intergenerational play, developing innovative partnerships with practitioners to deliver thought-provoking and multi-sensory activities that foster a life-long love of learning.  #vamfamilies

Austin Young and David Burns, Collectively know as Fallen Fruit are included in the exhibition:   FOOD BIGGER THAN THE PLATE 

#fallenfruit  / fallenfruit.org / endlessorchard.com / fallen_fruit 

FOOD BIGGER THAN THE PLATE  is curated by Catherine Flood and May Rosenthal Sloan  The exhibition invites visitors to participate, taste and debate, this bold exhibition explores current experiments at every stage of the food system – from compost to table.  #plateup

 

You can take part in Fallen Fruit’s collective mapping and planting experience, the Endless Orchard, which explores the meaning of community through creating and sharing fruit trees: “Plant a fruit tree near your home. Share your fruit!”.

 

 

 

 

 

Fallen Fruit at Kunsthall 3.14

Fallen Fruit at Kunsthall 3.14  

Bergen, Norway, opens June 21, 2019, 18:00

21.06.-08.09.2019

FALLEN FRUIT , DAVID ALLEN BURNS & AUSTIN YOUNG

EVENT HORIZON

Darkness is a Temporary Condition

California-based artists group Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young), make art which explores the role of fruit in creating shared culture both for the institutional art scene as well as for the public urban spaces. For Kunsthall 3.14 they will create two unique installation designs entitled The Day of Eternal Night and Midnight Sun, transforming the entire exhibition hall. 

EVENT HORIZON

Darkness is a Temporary Condition, text by FALLEN FRUIT , DAVID ALLEN BURNS & AUSTIN YOUNG

There are two times per when terrestrial understanding of time space is suspended temporarily. On Summer Solstice, above the parallel the sun will never touch the horizon.  On Winter Solstice, the inverse occurs, and the sun never rises above the horizon. It makes us think about the horizon, the world we know, and the conditions of life that exists between the earth and the sky.

Everything we have come to understand about the world is modulated by a rhythm of life, and organized by the rotation of the earth (with a slight wobble). The wobble is what makes a difference. It is the imperfection of the rotational axis that makes the world a kaleidoscope of color, shape, and form. This rotational pushing and pulling of light  provides the necessary conditions for everything we know.. As the seasons shift all forms of life life goes to sleep and wakes up again in variations of patterns… one universal condition is repetition, a pattern that happens in about twenty-four hours. Another pattern happens in three hundred and sixty five days. Occasionally, and predictably, both of these patterns collide twice every year — at the summer and winter solstices.

The beauty of the world in all capacities persists — even in darkness. In everything we can imagine, the world that gives us joy, pleasure, and meaning — it is darkness that is a necessary condition from which beauty becomes possible. Without darkness, life would not persist with variations of color, shape, and form.

The rhythm of the sun and the moon is hypnotic. The cycles of the day and the night is a  transnational ceremony — a never ending procession of waning and waxing. Ironically, in conventional thinking, we actually believe that time doesn’t shift and the meaning is terminal and a long-lasting determinate — as if ‘truth’ has a solid foundation. But, twice a year, on the solstices we can notice that in some parts of the world this illusion of understanding day and night is magically suspended for about 2.5 earth rotations. The horizon and the illusions of the suspension of time temporarily creates the greatest tromp l’oiel in the world — an on-going hallucination created by the earth and the sky.  

The exhibition space is 3.14… begins with the number PI. This was not realized at first, perhaps overlooked, just like the horizon, the solstices, and the wobble of the earth. It is named for alphaprime — The best number in the known world. The thing that is neither divisible nor terminate. This new project created for 3.14 and the port city of  Bergen, illustrates fruits from around the world in full spectral light and then into darkness and back again. A panoramic installation about cycles of balance in color shape and form.

– FALLEN FRUIT , DAVID ALLEN BURNS & AUSTIN YOUNG
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Event Horizon by  Fallen Fruit is a visual explosion of capacity to connect and create shared culture through the role of fruit. The wallpaper pattern in-stallation is creating a viewing environment encouraging action on part of the audience, going out into the world and planting a fruit tree.  The artist explore this through their interactions with geography, history, culture, society, politics, and most importantly nature.

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Fallen Fruit´s artistic investigation and responses to our local fruit growing traditions in the region and the history of import of fruit to our shores are interpreted in this exhibition. They create a site specific art installation , inviting us to experience Kunsthall 3.14 and its surroundings as fruitful places for a vital color and vitamin boost. A fresh breath!Fruit is a transcultural symbol of sharing. During Fallen Fruit´s presence in Bergen they will also leads us out into the city encouraging participation in the world´s largest Orchard. The artists´ project Endless Orchard is a living public artwork that anyone can eat from! Bergen Municipality will collaborate with the artists to realize this real living fruit orchard. Both the city´s gardeners and the public will plant, for the public and the bees – trees role in making our cities better places for people and nature to thrive.

ENDLESS ORCHARD

Join us and interact! Anyone can plant, map, share, and navigate the fruit trees via the artists´  free online portal:  EndlessOrchard.com or pick up the fruit map at 3.14 where it has been plotting the locations of fruit trees growing on, or overhanging, public space in Bergen.

The artists are relevant with their current exhibition at Albert & Victoria Museum and London as latest city added to the Endless Orchard.

Photos: 

Event Horizon © Fallen Fruit, 2019.

Kunsthall 3.14 ( formerly known as Stiftelsen 3,14) is a non-profit art institution centrally located in the heart of Bergen, almost exclusively working with international exhibitions and partnerships, with an emphasis on contemporary art beyond the western discourse.

 
 
 
 

Fallen Fruit at the V&A!

FOOD: Bigger than the Plate

Curated by Catherine Flood  and May Rosenthal

Opening on Saturday, 18 May 2019 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

get tickets HERE 

join us for our Fallen Fruit Magazine, V&A edition HERE

Inviting visitors to participate, taste and debate, this bold exhibition explores current experiments at every stage of the food system – from compost to table 

From gastronomic experiments to urban farming, this exhibition brings together the politics and pleasure of food to ask how the collective choices we make can lead to a more sustainable, just and delicious food future.

This exhibition explores how innovative individuals, communities and organisations are radically re-inventing how we grow, distribute and experience food. Taking visitors on a sensory journey through the food cycle, from compost to table, it poses questions about how the collective choices we make can lead to a more sustainable, just and delicious food future in unexpected and playful ways.

The Exhibition will  feature a major new commission by artists Fallen Fruit who will create a bespoke 12-metre squared wallpaper for the museum and maps of available fruit in the city.  This will draw on the V&A’s collections and the horticultural history of the site – which was once an important nursery for fruit trees – to explore the past and contemporary role of fruit in creating shared culture. –more HERE.

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Make a collaborative magazine with art collective Fallen Fruit using collage making and storytelling. Everyone is welcome. HERE

27 Portraits – Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana?

 

Please join us for an exhibition of 27 portraits
at the Little Gallery of San Bernardino,
Opening Reception
April 20th, 2019
5-9pm

27 Portraits
In exchange for drawing a self-portrait onto a hand-picked piece of fruit (oranges and lemons), each participant received a glass of organic juice. Collectively the citrusy self-portraits created a group portrait of everyone participated Hand-drawn expressions illustrate joy and innocence as well as wisdom and age. Portraits of participants along with their self-portraits are part of the recorded stories about the neighborhood and families of San Bernardino on the theme of … “Orange you glad…” Black markers and fruit become the drawing materials, and participants draw a picture of themselves without using a mirror in exchange for a glass of fresh juice. People can use the portraits on social media accounts as icons and avatars with hashtags. #orangeyougladtoseeme #FallenFruitSanBernardino

Fallen Fruit’s project for San Bernardino evolved by working together with community members in the creation of a living artwork – an extension of an ongoing Fallen Fruit project called the “Endless Orchard.” The Endless Orchard builds community through expanding public access to fresh fruit. Fallen Fruit San Bernardino’s main site was The Garcia Center for the Arts in the City of San Bernardino, with other programming and plantings taking place at The Feldheym Library, with additional sites in Victorville, Lake Arrowhead, and Crestline. The project included plantings of a variety of citrus trees at the Garcia Center, fruit tree adoptions, poetry and collage that we turned into a zine (examples seen here at the show), hand-crafted wooden picnic tables etched with community quotes, and other public participatory projects. Other local artists, including Printmaker Bob Hurton (aka Uncle Bacon) and Inlandia’s Poet Laureate, Nikia Chaney, worked with Fallen Fruit and community participants on the creation of the Zine. We would like to thank The City of Victorville, the staff at the Family Assistance Program in Old Town Victorville, and the students at the Rim of the Word High School in Lake Arrowhead for all of their support and dedication to making this project a reality. There are now two permanent public fruit tree site in Victorville, one in Lake Arrowhead, and another at the Garcia Center for the Arts! Our project site in Crestline is still underway.

DOWNLOAD Fallen Fruit Magazine, San Bernardino Edition, HERE

 

Special thanks to:
The Little Gallery of San Bernardino
City of Victorville
Socal Gas
Lake Arrowhead – Rim of the World High School
Family Assistance Program – Old Town Victorville
ROOT – Revive Our Old Town – Victorville
Garcia Center for the Arts
City of San Bernardino Art and Historic Preservation Commission
San Bernardino Art Association
California Arts Council
Arts Connection
Fallen Fruit

Fallen Fruit of Tulum

Fallen Fruit is in residency at Aki Aora in Tulum, Mexico February 18th through March 10, 2019

The Endless Orchard/El Huerto Sin Fin in Tulum!

by Fallen Fruit, David Allen Burns and Austin Young

EL HUERTO SIN FIN! 

FRUTA PARA TODOS!

Naranjas! Limones! Mandarinas! Papayas!

Guanabanas! MANGOS! Aguacates! SAPOTES!

COMPARTA FRUTA CON SUS VECINOS.

CON SU COMUNIDAD

CON LOS SUYOS

CON LOS OTROS

CON LAS OTRAS   

HAGAMOS UN HUERTO INFINITO!

UNAMONOS

UNETE

AQUI AHORA

FRUTA PARA TODOS!
FRUTA PARA LOS SUYOS
FRUTA PARA OTROS

FRUTA PARA OTRAS

 

Our Fruit Tree Planting project in Uh May and Tulum are co-sponsored by Aki Aora and Azulik.

AKA Ya/Here Already

Programa público – 1-10 de marzo 2019, Tulum.

Queridos amigos, nos complace anunciarles e invitarlos a la tercera edición de AKI AORA!

Dear friends, we´re excited to announce and invite you to the third edition of AKI AORA!

The public programme will be held in public spaces around Tulum from 1-10 March.

 

 

Fallen Fruit in 2018

We hope you have a beautiful and fruitful 2019! 

 A big thank you to all friends, collaborators, supporters, and collectors. And a special thank you to all our partners. We wouldn’t be able to do this without you. Help us continue grow this important work and transform community.
Let’s make fruit trees publicly accessible everywhere – our cities could be like communal gardens. Share your fruit!  

With Love,
David and Austin
“Fallen Fruit Cocktail’ on the cover of ART NEWS magazine, Winter 2019

We exceeded prior attendance records at Newcomb Art Museum and our installation ‘Theater of the Sun’ was the most instagramed site in Palermo! We were in the NY Times twice! Here are some highlights of 2018:

  1. Fallen Fruit of New Orleans- Endless Orchard! 300 fruit trees in New Orleans! 
  2. EMPIRE our exhibition at Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans
  3. LOWER 9 FRUIT PARK, New Orleans
  4. PONTCHARTRAIN FRUIT PARK, New Orleans 
  5. FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE – New Orleans Edition
  6. THEATER OF THE SUN Manifesta 12, Palermo
  7. ORANGE YOU GLAD I DIDN’T SAY BANANA  Manifesta 12, Palermo
  8. FRUIT COCKTAIL Fallen Fruit at Manifesta 12, Palermo
  9. CONSUMED by Ligaya Mishan in the NY Times Magazine
  10. TODO INCLUIDO: Estás Como Mango Remixed,  OPC, Puerto Vallarta
  11. FALLEN FRUIT interview by Cameron Shaw
  12. FALLEN FRUIT OF SAN BERNARDINO
  13. ORANGE YOU GLAD I DIDN’T SAY BANANA– San Bernardino
  14. RIM OF THE WORLD FRUIT PARK, San Bernardino County
  15. MOJAVE RIVER TRAIL HEAD FRUIT PARK, San Bernardino County
  16. HISTORIC VICTORVILLE FRUIT PARK, San Bernardino County
  17. FALLEN FRUIT MAGAZINE! San Bernardino Edition!
  18. PUBLIC ART NETWORK AWARD  Stoneview Nature Center
  19. THE ENDLESS ORCHARD at Manual Arts High School
  20. Fallen Fruit’s first ever MASTER CLASS at Stoneview Nature Center
  21. PANORÁMICA, Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico
  22. ART NEWS MAGAZINE  Cover and “15 L.A. ARTISTS TO WATCH” 

  23. ART INSTALLATIONS CURRENTLY ON VIEW:
  24. ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES  The Bunker, West Palm Beach 
  25. THE PRACTICES OF EVERYDAY LIFE 21C Museum Hotel, Louisville
A special thank you to Manifesta, Newcomb Art Museum, Pelican Bomb, A Studio In the Woods, San Bernardino Arts Council, Garcia Center for the Arts, OPC, New Orleans Department of Parks, CSED, Palazzo Butera, 21c Museum Hotel, Beth Rudin DeWoody and The Bunker, Joanna Glovinsky, and everyone who joined us on our journey this year!

Fulcrum Arts is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Donations to Fallen Fruit are tax deductible to the full extent of the law under Federal ID 95-2540759.

Help grow the ENDLESS ORCHARD

In 2018, with your help, we planted more than 400 fruit trees for sharing including 6 public fruit parks and and we have more planned for 2019. Join us! Sponsor a fruit tree for a $90 donation and help grow the ENDLESS  ORCHARD. For $300 you can dedicate a tree to loved one with a brass tag and $1000 will sponsor a public picnic table. All fruit is shared and accessible to the public. 

The ENDLESS ORCHARD builds community through expanding public access to fresh fruit.  

Fulcrum Arts is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Donations to Fallen Fruit are tax deductible to the full extent of the law under Federal ID 95-2540759.

other ways to support?? SHOP OUR ONLINE STORE!  
www.fallenfruit.org/store  

Stoneview receives Public Art Network Award!

Stoneview Nature Center: Civic Art Project Recognized at American for the Arts one of the 49 outstanding public art projects 2017!  -Civic Art by Fallen Fruit, David Burns and Austin Young.

On Friday, June 15, Americans for the Arts honored 49 outstanding public arts projects created in 2017, including the civic artwork at the Stoneview Nature Center. The projects were chosen through the Public Art Network Year in Review program, the only national program that specifically recognizes the most compelling public art. Selected by public art experts, the roster of projects was unveiled at Americans for the Arts’ (AFTA) Annual Convention in Denver.

Information can be found HERE at Los Angele County Arts Commision.

Details can be found HERE at Americans For The Arts.

“The 5-acre Stoneview Nature Center two miles west of Stocker — and itself a stop on the Park-To-Playa Trail — sees Fallen Fruit’s integral design elements in a more conceptual but still absolutely edible landscape integrated into the new construction’s progressive municipal design/build award. Co-proposed with Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects, AHBE Landscape Design, and graphics by Omnivore, the site is a sustainable, multi-use vision for a community center featuring outdoor kitchen and gathering areas, art installations based on the neighborhood’s history, and at its heart, Fallen Fruit’s organic rainbow of living colors, rich symbolism, and narrative in the form of free harvests of pomegranates, lemons, oranges, avocados, grapes, berries and figs. “ – Shana Nys Dambrot, Huffington Post.

 

 

 

Lower 9 Fruit Park Opening Celebration

Come celebrate our LOWER 9 FRUIT PARK in New Orleans
June 30, 9–11!  
 
Join Pelican Bomb, A Studio in the Woods, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, and the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development for a tree-dedication event with artists Fallen Fruit.
 
As part of “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans,” we facilitated the planting of 300 fruit trees across New Orleans, including fruit tree parks in the Lower 9th Ward and Gentilly. On June 30, 9–11 am, we welcome you to celebrate the project with the artists, David Burns and Austin Young. Reverend Charles Duplessis of Mount Nebo Bible Baptist Church gives a blessing, and following the ceremony, guests can tie-dye and take home bandanas featuring maps of New Orleans’ new public fruit trees.
Meet us at Fallen Fruit’s fruit tree park in the Lower 9th Ward near the intersection of Florida and Caffin Avenues in New Orleans.
 
 
 
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP and share with your friends on Facebook.
 
 
 
 

FALLEN FRUIT at MANIFESTA 12

Fallen Fruit is part of Manifesta 12, the twelfth edition of the European nomadic biennial, taking place in Palermo from 16 June until 4 November.  The Fallen Fruit art installation will be at the magnificent Palazzo Butera of Palermo, located in the historical Kalsa district.

The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence is curated by By Manifesta 12 Creative Mediators: Bregtje van der Haak, Andrés Jaque, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Mirjam Varadinis. 

We mapped the fruit available for everyone to share in Palermo and maps are available at Butera or online at the Endlessorchard.com/palermo

Teatro del Sole- by Fallen Fruit, David Allen Burns and Austin Young, 2018 installation

Manifesta 12 Palermo consists of more than 40 newly commissioned projects, public interventions, and performances held in various venues spread around Palermo’s neighbourhoods. Manifesta 12 Tickets allow visitors to discover ground-breaking projects inspired by the Manifesta 12 Palermo curatorial concept The Planetary Garden.Cultivating Co-existence, many of which are visible in public spaces and no ticket is needed.

 

 

 

CAUSEPLAY at Los Angeles State Historic Park

 

 

Join us this Sunday at 2pm. Come make tie dyed bandana fruit maps with Fallen Fruit at Los Angeles State Historic Park– and come see all the art in the park including our ‘Monument to Sharing.’ it’s free and there will be activities and all!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1811278468938506/

Come celebrate the Chinatown Yard Alliance by playing in the park they fought to establish! Along with games there will be opportunities to learn about art in the park, history, wild animals, and much more. The celebration concludes with a campfire!

Tentative schedule:
2pm: Event starts with Yoga, DJ, and games
3pm: Lion Dancers
4pm: Artist Panel moderated by Tom Carroll (of Tom Explores Los Angeles). Participating artists: Lauren Bon, Rosten Woo, Debra Scacco, Anna Sew Hoy, and Fallen Fruit.
5pm: “Here and Then: A walk through the Los Angeles history gateway” with UCLA Prof. Fabian Wagmister
6pm: Nature of Wildworks: come see and learn about wild animals
7pm: Campfire + free s’mores

“Monument to Sharing” (2017) by Fallen Fruit organizaton

This day we will unveil the final phase of Rosten Woo’s piece, A Park is Made by People. This is an oral history of the grassroots effort to save this land as much needed open-space. Find him, and many of our other inspiring artists, at the artist panel discussion!

Tentative activities and games: large beach balls, cooking demo, tree giveaways, rock wall, tie dyeing, giant chess and connect four, knot making, and much more!

Please join us in celebrating the power of the people to cause positive change through collective action.

Want to volunteer?
Fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/fqHQR4smcXjO1gNB2
or email us at info.larsppartners.org

The day will honor the original Chinatown Yard Alliance with the unveiling of the final phase of Rosten Woo’s, A Park is Made by People, an oral history of the grassroots effort to save this land as much needed open-space. The park will host a panel discussion with all the artists who have contributed work to the park and why these site specific installations are meaningful in the larger context of the local community, park vision, and city as a whole. Other activities will include Ranger led walks, hands on workshops, and activations at each of our public art sites.  Please join us in celebrating the victory of the Chinatown Yard Alliance and the power of the people to cause positive change through collective action.

Fallen Fruit San Bernardino!

Coming up May 12th and 19th!

Fallen Fruit San Bernardino!
Public art project, “Fallen Fruit San Bernardino!”  
 
The Endless Orchard builds community through expanding public access to fresh fruit.

Join us!
May 12th at the Feldheym Library from 1-3pm
Fallen Fruit zine workshop with Uncle Bacon AND The Endless Orchard, Fruit Tree Adoption
555 W 6th St., San Bernardino, CA 92410

May 19th at The Garcia Center for the Arts from 1-3pm
Fallen Fruit zine workshop with Nikia Chaney
The Endless Orchard– plant the perimeter!
536 W 11th St., San Bernardino, CA 92410 

The zine workshops will result in the creation of a Fallen Fruit San Bernardino Magazine, celebrating our countywide community! Printmaker Uncle Bacon (a.k.a. Bob Hurton) and Inlandia Poet Laureate, Nikia Chaney will help guide participants as they creatie work through collage, illustrations and short written text. The final document becomes an electronic PDF available free for download.

The Endless Orchard events will include a public fruit tree adoption at the Feldheym Library, and a “plant the perimeter” event at the Garcia Center for the Arts. What if instead of going to the grocery store for an apple, you just walked outside your door? Fallen Fruit helps the community to create a real living fruit orchard planted by the public, for the public – a movement of citizens transforming their own neighborhoods. Neighbors adopt fruit trees and plant them next to the sidewalk to share with the community.  Participants sign an adoption form, agreeing to care for and share the fruit tree. Trees are mapped on the San Bernardino Endless Orchard Map- where anyone can map, plant and share fruit. The anchor of this map will be 12 trees planted on the grounds of the Garcia Center for the Arts.

The first “Fallen Fruit San Bernardino!” events took place in partnership with the San Bernardino County Museum. The museum hosted an art exhibition “Life in the Cracks,” a zine workshop and “Orange You Glad I didn’t Say Banana?” in which participants drew their self-portrait on an orange in exchange for a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. Future “Fallen Fruit San Bernardino!” events are being planned in Victorville and Crestline. Details will be announced as dates and times are confirmed.  For more information please visit http://www.artsconnectionnetwork.org

 Arts Connection, The Arts Council of San Bernardino County, was awarded a California Arts Council Artists Activating Communities grant to bring a project from artist collective, Fallen Fruit to life in San Bernardino. Additional funds for programming were awarded by the San Bernardino Fine Arts Commission and Southern California Gas Company.

 

 

 

 

 

Fallen Fruit of New Orleans- Endless Orchard!

The artists of Fallen Fruit share a citywide project presented by Pelican Bomb, A Studio in the Woods, and Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University and in partnership with the City of New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways, the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development, and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. Together with local residents, we planted 300 publicly accessible, fruit-bearing trees for everyone to share. Learn your fruits! 

***go see “EMPIRE” by Fallen Fruit at Newcomb Art Museum through December 2018

Fruit For All! – April 14th at Newcomb Art Museum

ART AND FRUIT LOVERS!!  Come celebrate FALLEN FRUIT OF NEW ORLEANS with us!

April 14- 10 am to 1 pm at Newcomb Art Museum  New Orleans, LA  + Google Map

 

Fallen Fruit, Pelican Bomb, A Studio in the Woods,  Newcomb Art Museum and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South’s Rosenthal Blumenfeld Gulf South Foodways Program will FRUIT FOR ALL! featuring  FRUIT Magazine – a collaborative Zine, Public Fruit Map Bandana tie-dye Workshop, Fallen Fruit’s Lemonade Stand, roving archivist tours of our art installation,  EMPIRE, a fruit-themed DJ, food trucks, cotton candy, and so much more! Free and open to the public, art and fruit lovers are invited to come join in on the fun!  Questions? Email [email protected].

If you live in New Orleans, Fallen Fruit invites you to bring family recipes to include in FRUIT MAGAZINE- NEW ORLEANS EDITION! also join us for  LEMONADE STAND, and our Public Fruit Map Bandana Tie-Dye Workshop!   The Bandana will be a map to the 300 fruit trees we planted with neighbors, CSED and New Orleans Parks and Parkways for Fallen Fruit of New Orleans!

To celebrate the opening of EMPIRE, Newcomb Art Museum hosts a reception on Friday, April 13. Burns and Young give a talk at 6:30 pm, followed by a public reception 7:30–9:00 pm.

EMPIRE is part of “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” a suite of site-specific projects taking place throughout New Orleans from June 2017 through June 2018, commissioned and presented by Pelican Bomb, A Studio in the Woods, and Newcomb Art Museum. “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” was initiated by Pelican Bomb in 2015.

 

EMPIRE- opening reception April 13

Join us for the opening reception celebrating  Fallen Fruit’s upcoming exhibition EMPIRE!  at Newcomb Art Museum
 
Celebrating the New Orleans tricentennial, EMPIRE is an art installation by LA-based artists Fallen Fruit, David Allen Burns and Austin Young, commissioned and presented by Newcomb Art Museum, A Studio in the Woods and Pelican Bomb. Through this assembly of over 300 objects, the artists will transform the entire museum into one immersive artwork that explores the history of people and place in terms of cultural legacy, historical narrative, and social constructs.
 
The project uses objects culled from the diverse archives and collections across campus, including art, sound, documents of record, material culture, and artifacts. It activates objects held by the Amistad Research Center, Hogan Jazz Archive, Latin American Library, Louisiana Research Collection, Middle American Research Institute, Newcomb Art Museum, Newcomb College Institute, Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection / Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute, and Southeastern Architectural Archive, among other campus collections, shifting the lexicon of historical meanings into one work of art.

EMPIRE critically examines the principles of archives and anthropology to interrogate the ways histories are told, remembered, and revised. The immersive artwork considers the historical and contemporary effects that colonialism, slavery, trade, and tourism have had on the movement of culture across and beyond borders to better understand the geographic and cultural position of New Orleans in relationship to Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. EMPIRE invites viewers to creatively interpret the displayed objects, their connections, and their juxtapositions to generate new meanings.

EMPIRE at Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University is part of “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” a suite of site-specific projects taking place throughout New Orleans from June 2017 through June 2018, commissioned and presented by Newcomb Art Museum, A Studio in the Woods, and Pelican Bomb. “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” was initiated by Pelican Bomb in 2015.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

5:30 pm – Private VIP/members reception featuring New Orleans themed catering, desserts by Salt & Light Pastry Co., a garden-style mixologist, and live entertainment

6:30 pm – Talk with David Allen Burns and Austin Young of artist collective Fallen Fruit

7:30-9 pm – Public reception

EMPIRE

Celebrating the New Orleans Tricentennial, EMPIRE is an art installation by Los Angeles-based artists Fallen Fruit, David Allen Burns and Austin Young, commissioned and presented by Newcomb Art Museum, A Studio in the Woods and Pelican Bomb. Through this assemblage of over 300 objects, the artists will transform the entire museum into one immersive artwork.

The project uses objects culled from the diverse archives and collections across campus, including art, sound, documents of record, material culture, and artifacts. It activates objects held by the Newcomb Art Museum, Middle American Research Institute, Newcomb College Institute, Latin American Library, Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection / Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute, the Hogan Jazz Archive, the Amistad Research Center, and the Louisiana Research Collection, among other campus collections, shifting the lexicon of historical meanings into one work of art.

EMPIRE critically examines the principles of archives and anthropology to interrogate the ways histories are told, remembered, and revised. The immersive artwork considers the historical and contemporary effects that colonialism, slavery, trade, and tourism have had on the movement of culture across and beyond borders to better understand the geographic and cultural position of New Orleans in relationship to Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. EMPIRE invites viewers to creatively interpret the displayed objects, their connections, and their juxtapositions to generate new meanings.

Fallen Fruit’s EMPIRE at Newcomb Art Museum is made possible in part through the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Jennifer Wooster (NC’91), Lora and Don Peters (A&S’81), the Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University, and the Newcomb Art Museum advisory board. Newcomb Art Museum and Fallen Fruit want to thank the Joan Mitchell Center, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and Tulane’s New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Amistad Research Center, Middle America Research Center, Louisiana Research Collection, and the Latin American Library for making this exhibition possible. EMPIRE at Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University is part of “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” a suite of site-specific projects taking place throughout New Orleans from June 2017 through June 2018, commissioned and presented by Newcomb Art Museum, A Studio in the Woods, and Pelican Bomb. “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” was initiated by Pelican Bomb in 2015.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

The Endless Orchard at Manual Arts High School!

Fallen Fruit expands the Endless Orchard to Compton, Los Angeles

Fallen  Fruit Tree Adoption!

Help us bring free fruit to you, and your neighbors!

Manual Arts High School

9-12 Saturday February 24th, 2018

4131 S Vermont Ave, Los Angeles CA 90037

The Endless Orchard is coming to Manual Arts High School in Compton! Collaborate with us by adopting a fruit tree to share with neighbors!

Come Help us plant!

You can apply to adopt a tree if:
• You have a home, business, or community center in South Central. Preference will be given to our neighbors who are near Manual Arts High School.
• The tree will be accessible to neighbors and passersby – placed in the front of your yard right next to the sidewalk.
• You agree to water and care for the tree for the first three years.
• You’re willing to share the bounty! Your tree will be part of the Endless Orchard map, which shares the locations of public fruit trees throughout the city.

To apply for a tree,  register with Bari at Manual Arts: [email protected]

Contact David and Austin at info @ fallenfruit.org with any questions or to learn more. 

 

PLANT THE PERIMETER

Our city is filled with useless ornamental landscaping and more cement than grass. What if we replaced all these little shrubs with fruit trees?   What if instead of driving to a grocery store for a peach you just walked outside your door? The peach on the street has never been sprayed or dusted or fertilized. The peach from the store was sprayed, dusted, fertilized and has a round little sticker you can’t eat. It traveled 200 or 2,000 miles to meet you. Plant the city, share with your neighbors and change the texture (and flavor) of your neighborhood. You have nothing to lose buy your shrubs!

Plant fruit trees on the perimeter of your property, on the sidewalks, streets and back alleys! The fruit trees that are easiest to care for are semi-dwarfs (easy to pick). Those that require less water are figs, loquats, avocados, pomegranates and some citrus. Dig a hole twice as big as the roots and soak it before planting by filling it with water. After the water has drained, mix half of the dirty with 50% soil amendment. Plant fruit trees in the fall, winter or spring and be ready to care for them (water!!) for the first two years at least.

Give things away! The only real gifts are those without any expectation of return. Share fruit with all your neighbors, friends and strangers. Put signs up inviting people to sample. Change your neighborhood into an inhabited garden on the Endless Orchard. Share your fruit. Change the world!

 

 

Manual Arts High School
4131 S Vermont Ave, Los Angeles CA 90037

Fallen Fruit of San Bernardino!

Made possible through grant funding from the California Arts Council, The City of San Bernardino Fine Arts Commission, and SoCalGas.

“Fallen Fruit San Bernardino!” will include a series of events in different regions of the county. Our first public participatory event will be at the San Bernardino County Museum on March 10th. Celebrate the “Festival of Life in the Cracks” day by adopting a fruit tree, drawing a self portrait on an orange, or taking part in our collective zine project!

The Endless Orchard is coming to San Bernardino!
Collaborate with us by adopting a fruit tree to share with neighbors!

You can apply to adopt a tree if:
• You have a home, business, or community center in San Bernardino. Preference will be given to our neighbors in the Inland Empire basin.
• The tree will be accessible to neighbors and passersby – placed in the front of your yard right next to the sidewalk.
• You agree to water and care for the tree for the first three years.
• You’re willing to share the bounty! Your tree will be part of the Endless Orchard map, which shares the locations of public fruit trees throughout the city.

Contact David and Austin at info @ fallenfruit.org with any questions or to learn more.

Shown above is Fallen Fruit’s Lemonade Stand. We’ve developed a new edition to our repertoire for Fallen Fruit San Bernardino, “Orange You Glad You Didn’t Say Banana?”

ORANGE YOU GLAD I DIDN’T SAY BANANA
In exchange for drawing a self-portrait onto a hand-picked orange from the orchard on the property, each participant receives a glass of organic orange juice (also picked from the historic orchards). Collectively the orange self- portraits create a group portrait of everyone who joins us! Hand-drawn expressions illustrate joy and innocence as well as wisdom and age. During the project we will take portraits of participants along with their self-portraits and record stories about neighborhood and families of San Bernardino on the theme of … “Orange you glad…”

Fallen Fruit was originally conceived by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work.

 

 

 

Fallen Fruit MASTER class!

Fallen Fruit MASTER Class

Stoneview Nature Center

Saturday, February 24th

from 11am to 2pm

We are hosting our first ever MASTERCLASS to learn about
fruit tree care, master pruning, micronutrients, planting in public spaces. This is a one-day course that is 100% free (no charge) to the public.

We are limited to 15 spaces and applications are accepted through February 16th, 2018.

apply here by February 16th: http://bit.ly/fruitmaster

It is a brief application process and we are looking for active and engaged community leaders who are participating in community engagement and transforming neighborhoods in Los Angeles County.

Each participant will get hands on training on master tree care and receive 3 fruit trees to plant in your neighborhoods public spaces.

Please contact us with any questions.

Learn your fruits!

Let’s hangout and knowledge share!

Stoneview Nature Center

5950 Stoneview Dr, Culver City, CA 90232

fallenfruit.org

 

 

Fallen Fruit of New Orleans- Community Fruit Tree Plantings!

Pelican Bomb, A Studio in the Woods, and Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University present “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans,” a citywide suite of public projects with internationally acclaimed artists Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young). This multi-site presentation continues Fallen Fruit’s exploration of the ways people experience public space. As one component, Fallen Fruit will plant 300 fruit trees throughout New Orleans in 2018—in honor of the city’s tricentennial. Individuals and community groups are able to adopt fruit trees, free of charge. In the spirit of sharing resources, trees must be planted to overhang a public sidewalk or street so that the fruit is accessible to passersby to pick.

On January 13, the planting initiative kicks off with a community day in the Lower 9th Ward. Together with neighborhood residents and volunteers from throughout the city, Fallen Fruit are planting 30 trees along the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle, inaugurating our first public fruit park in New Orleans. Through a partnership with the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (L9CSED), the park will be maintained and available for residents year round.

With community outreach support from L9CSED and Movin’ for Life, over 40 residents and community groups have pre-reserved trees and these can be picked up 10 am–12 pm. Any remaining trees will be available on a first come, first served basis to residents of the Lower 9th Ward and may be adopted 12–2 pm at L9CSED’s Environmental Learning and Research Center on the corner of Florida and Caffin Avenues. Volunteers from the citywide New Orleans Martin Luther King Holiday Planning Commission will be on hand to assist with the transport and planting of fruit trees.

On January 20, we’re launching  our second public fruit park, in Pontchartrain Park, featuring 50 fruit trees, planted and maintained in partnership with the City of New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways. Gentilly residents and community groups are also able to adopt individual fruit trees: 10 am to 12 pm for those who have already reserved a tree and 12–2 pm for those who have not reserved a tree in advance, subject to availability. The adoptions will take place at the Joseph Bartholomew Clubhouse in Pontchartrain Park. Student volunteers from Tulane University and Loyola University, as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, will be available to assist with the transport and planting of fruit trees.

And on January 23, 4–6 pm, all interested New Orleans residents citywide can adopt a tree at Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University. Trees will be adopted on a first come, first served basis, and we cannot guarantee availability. Priority will be given to those who have pre-registered.  This event also introduces Fallen Fruit’s upcoming exhibition “EMPIRE,” which opens April 12 at Newcomb Art Museum.

If you’re interested in volunteering or if you’re a community member interested in “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans,” contact [email protected].

About Fallen Fruit’s Endless Orchard

Fallen Fruit started in 2004 in Los Angeles with the creative mapping of locations of fruit growing on or over public property, and since then the artists have worked in over 30 cities around the world. The planted fruit trees in New Orleans will join Fallen Fruit’s Endless Orchard, a massive, living public art and digital mapping project.

 

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young. Since 2013, Burns and Young have continued the collaborative work. “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” was initiated by Pelican Bomb in 2015.

Contact Charlie Tatum at [email protected] with all press inquiries.

FALLEN FRUIT PUBLIC FRUIT TREE ADOPTION in Old Town Pasadena

DATE AND TIME

Sun, December 10, 2017

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST

FALLEN FRUIT PUBLIC FRUIT TREE ADOPTION

One Colorado and the artist collaborative Fallen Fruit invite you to adopt a citrus tree to be planted in a public space. These trees will serve to foster new kinds of community based on generosity and sharing.

For this event, you will become a collaborator, taking care of the tree to share with neighbors (planting next to sidewalks in FRONT of homes, business, community centers). When you pick up your tree you’ll sign adoption papers making your commitment to kindness official. Your tree will be mapped to share on the Endless Orchard.

One tree per person! No exceptions! They are available first-come first-served. Supplies limited.

RSVP’ing via Eventbrite does not guarantee a tree.

Questions? Email Fallen Fruit at [email protected].

 

One Colorado

41 Hugus Alley

Pasadena, CA 91103

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Every dollar you spend goes toward Fallen Fruit’s tree care, our operations budget, planting fruit trees in public space for EVERYONE to share, and creating easy access to publicly available fresh fruit. SO THANK YOU!

 
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Lower 9th Ward Pickle Party

Pelican Bomb,The Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement, A Studio in the Woods, and Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University are partnering to bring artists Fallen Fruit to plant a networks of publicly accessible fruit trees along the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle in the Lower 9th Ward.

CSED, Pelican Bomb, & A Studio in the Woods present
a public project by the artists of Fallen Fruit: Pickle Party!

October 14,2017, Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans


“Fruit Pickles!! Seasonal, crunchy, yummy cucumber pickles. Cukes are a fruit!! But we can pickle more than that. Okra (is a fruit!). Apples, zucchini, watermelon rinds, and more. Use your imagination and build your own pickle jar. We will make the brine and you will have delicious pickles to share with your family and friends within 1-2 days! They will keep in the fridge and these pickles will be made perfectly, with love. Each participant can make a jar of each type… 1 sweet and 1 sour!”- Fallen Fruit
*The Bayou Bienvenue Triangle in the Lower 9th Ward is the site of one of our future Public Fruit Parks, part of ‘Fallen Fruit of New Orleans.’ This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Fallen Fruit Magazine- Stoneview Nature Center Edition – Nov. 11th

Fallen Fruit Magazine – The Stoneview Nature Center edition
Hey everyone!
Let’s make a zine!

A 3 hour collaboration with anyone who wants to participate. Come make a Magazine with us! Inspired by the the neighbors surrounding Stoneview Nature Center!

a free event. 5950 Stoneview Dr. Culver City, CA

The artists of FALLEN FRUIT, David Burns and Austin Young, invite you to a 3 hour collaboration with anyone who wants to participate. Come make a Magazine with us inspired by your neighborhood! Share your photos and stories- these will become a collaborative zine, available as a free downloadable pdf and also onsite at Stoneview Nature Center.

Nov. 11th 1-4pm rsvp here: Send Mail

The event will take place at Stoneview Nature Center. It’s free and open to the public of all ages –– we can’t wait to see you there!

Neighghbors at Fallen Fruit’s Stoneview Pickle Party. photo by Paul Turang

Stoneview Nature Center in Culver City. Fallen Fruit’s Pickle Party! photo by Paul Turang

Fallen Fruit Magazine brings together public participation, local histories and story-telling. Using strategies of collage this temporary team collaborators use fruit as a symbol, object and/or subject to create original editorial content to produce in a one-day a site-specific limited edition contemporary culture magazine. This edition is unique and is editorially focused on histories the neighborhood and community.

Bring meaningful family photos from the neighborhood. portraits of elders in the community and historical events. We’ll create cut-out collage, hand-made graphics, illustrations for short written text, original artwork, current event commentary all through a lens of fruit, love and contemporary culture. The final document becomes an electronic PDF available for download.

In addition to providing the materials for their public participatory project, Fallen Fruit Magazine, which included cutouts of various fruit and fashion magazines, the artists ask participants while they work to think of and include their own stories.

Puerto Vallarta edition:

Help our Kickstarter so we can plant 300 fruit trees in New Orleans.

We are bringing our Creative Capital project to New Orleans!

Pelican Bomb, A Studio in the Woods, and Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University present “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans,” a citywide suite of public projects with internationally acclaimed artists Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young). This multi-site presentation continues Fallen Fruit’s exploration of the ways people experience public space. As one component, Fallen Fruit will plant 300 fruit trees throughout New Orleans in 2018—in honor of the city’s tricentennial—for residents to share, and you can help by supporting our Kickstarter campaign until November 21. The Kickstarter helps us meet our goal of providing matching funds to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

About Fallen Fruit’s Endless Orchard
Fallen Fruit started in 2004 in Los Angeles with the creative mapping of locations of fruit growing on or over public property, and since then the artists have worked in over 30 cities around the world. In January, they will work in partnership with the Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development and the City of New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways to plant networks of publicly accessible fruit trees in two New Orleans neighborhoods: along the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle in the Lower 9th Ward and in Pontchartrain Park. Residents and community groups in both neighborhoods can also participate by planting trees along sidewalks in front of their homes, churches, and businesses to provide a much needed resource—fresh, healthy food—to their friends, neighbors, and anybody passing by. And the artists will host a citywide tree adoption day, open to all, at Newcomb Art Museum on Tulane University’s campus. All of the planted fruit trees will join Fallen Fruit’s Endless Orchard, a massive, living public art and digital mapping project. Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young. Since 2013, Burns and Young have continued the collaborative work. “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” was initiated by Pelican Bomb in 2015.

Why New Orleans?
In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit and the federal levees failed, flooding and wind destroyed the tree canopy along the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle. Further ecological shifts, including salt-water intrusion, have also led to tree loss in the area, and residents of the Lower 9th Ward have verified that most of the neighborhood fruit trees have been destroyed.

Fruit is a symbol of generosity across cultures. In Fallen Fruit’s work, fruit offers a platform for sharing, storytelling, and collective understanding. Studies have shown that fruit trees have further positive impacts: catching rainwater and removing pollutants from the soil and air; supporting the ecosystem of bees, birds, and wildlife; promoting well-being and food security; increasing property values; and creating more beautiful and walkable streets. Researchers have even linked an increased tree canopy to decreased crime rates.

To help plant fruit trees across New Orleans, donate to Fallen Fruit’s Kickstarter campaign before it ends on Tuesday, November 21. We have four weeks to meet our fundraising goal of $20,000, and we can’t do it without you. For Kickstarter rewards, the artists have designed a selection of exclusive items ranging from tote bags and fruit jam to limited-edition prints and experiences, including the opportunity to dedicate a fruit tree in your name or in honor of a loved one.

That’s Not All…
Alongside the planting of 300 fruit trees in New Orleans, Fallen Fruit will work with local residents to create fun and enriching public participatory programs that celebrate New Orleans’ social histories, neighborhood stories, and the value of generosity and collective action. These include a pickle party where residents gather to make delicious pickles; a collectively made magazine; a sno-ball portrait studio; and more.

And in April, Fallen Fruit will open an exhibition at Newcomb Art Museum bringing together objects from Tulane University’s special collections to further examine the ways the story of New Orleans is told. Recent exhibitions and projects include commissioned works by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; the Athens Biennale; the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha; the Portland Art Museum; and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus.

Imagine a New Orleans where everyone can walk out of their front doors to enjoy freshly picked pieces of fruit. Donate now on Kickstarter to support “Fallen Fruit of New Orleans” before Tuesday, November 21.

*The Endless Orchard is a Creative Capital awarded artwork and phase one was funded by the Muriel Pollia Foundation, Good Works Foundation, the Awesome Foundation and everyone who supported our ‘phase one’ Kickstarter. Check out the web app at EndlessOrchard.com and add to this massive edible collaborative fruit sharing map.

Contact Charlie Tatum at [email protected] with all press inquiries.

Fallen Fruit Magazine – The Love Edition

What the world needs now is love sweet love…. and fruit.

Fallen Fruit Magazine, The “Love” Edition is a zine made by Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young) It was a 3 hour collaboration on Natoma Street, San Francisco, California, on July 29, 2017, 3-6pm with Sites Unseen and everyone who participated.

Sites Unseen is working with local community partners and cultural institutions to bring dynamic arts program- ming to seven underused alleys in the neighborhood in the form of permanent and temporary artworks, per- formances, screenings, and other happenings. e alleys––Annie, Clementina, Jessie East, Lapu Lapu, Minna, Natoma, and Shipley Streets––will provide a platform for both local and national artists at all career stages to showcase work within a uni ed curatorial framework. Sites Unseen will activate these neglected areas by foster- ing social interaction, community pride, and economic opportunities while increasing visitors’ exposure to the arts.

Fallen Fruit in New Orleans

Fallen Fruit in New Orleans!

Fallen Fruit has  partnered with Pelican Bomb,  A Studio in the Woods, Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development, and Newcomb Art Museum!

We got the NEA PROJECT GRANT FOR 2017 to plant two Public Fruit Parks in New Orlean. Come help us plant in January 2018. 

We will present our exhibition celebrating the collection of Tulane University and the Newcomb Art Museum at the Newcomb Art Museum in April 2018.   

Stay tuned for more information about our initiative working with local residents to plant publicly accessible fruit trees and record the city’s rich histories.


Snow Ball Portraits by Fallen Fruit – Fathers Day, 2017 at Burnell’s Lower 9th Ward Market

Stoneview Public Fruit Jam! Aug 6th

Join Fallen Fruit at Stoneview Nature Center for a Public Fruit Jam!
An interactive collaborative exploration of fruit, community, and neighborhood goodness.
Sunday August 6th, 2017
12pm-3pm, Public Fruit Jam!
5950 Stoneview Dr. Culver City *free to the public Rsvp: info@ fallenfruit . org

Join us and your friends and neighbors to make jam together. We’ll have plenty of fruit. or Bring your home-grown or street-picked fruit, and come jam with us. Wash your fruit prior to arrival. Bring bring a friend or neighbor too! 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).

The Public Fruit Jam harkens back to old-time community harvest festivals. The kinds of jam we make will improvise on the fruit that are available. The artists of Fallen Fruit will bring public fruit picked from the streets of Los Angeles. We are looking for radical and experimental jams as well, like strawberry grapefruit or lemon pepper-and-lavender jelly. You’ll learn about the basics of jam and jelly making, pectin and bindings, as well as the communal power of shared fruit and the magic of public fruit.

This event celebrates the newly opened Stoneview Nature Center and the surrounding neighbors. If you live in the neighborhood help us make our art for the community building:

Stoneview Family Photos– Neighbor’s of Stoneview Nature Center: The artists need your help to complete the artwork for the park. They are looking for family photographs from the neighborhood from the 1950’s to present. Photos will go into the community building or exist in an online archive of the Blair Hills neighborhood.

Public Chandeliers– Chandeliers are being created from spoons, and forks and butter knives, kitchen utensils, etc from family homes in the area. Bring stray utensils to be a part of the project!

Stoneview Nature Center:
“The 5-acre Stoneview Nature Center two miles west of Stocker — and itself a stop on the Park-To-Playa Trail — sees Fallen Fruit’s integral design elements in a more conceptual but still absolutely edible landscape integrated into the new construction’s progressive municipal design/build award. Co-proposed with Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects, AHBE Landscape Design, and graphics by Omnivore, the site is a sustainable, multi-use vision for a community center featuring outdoor kitchen and gathering areas, art installations based on the neighborhood’s history, and at its heart, Fallen Fruit’s organic rainbow of living colors, rich symbolism, and narrative in the form of free harvests of pomegranates, lemons, oranges, avocados, grapes, berries and figs. “ – Shana Nys Dambrot, Huffington Post.

Fruit Tree Care 101- June 17th and 18th


Fruit tree care 101
Want to learn the basics of how to keep your fruit trees happy, healthy and producing delicious fruit? Join us for a weekend intensive on fruit tree care at Stoneview Nature Center from 11:00 – 2:00(?) on Saturday and Sunday June 17 & 18.

On Saturday you will learn:
– How to read your tree
– How to feed your tree (when to apply fertilizers and what fertilizers to apply)
– How to optimize fruit production

On Sunday you will learn:
– The specifics of citrus tree care
– The specifics of avocado tree care

Come to one or both workshops!

Snacks and water provided.

Feeding 5000 in DTLA- May 4th at Pershing Square

“a delicious communal feast for 5000 people made entirely out of food that would otherwise have been wasted. We have organized over 40 events worldwide and are very excited to take it to LA.” –Feeding 5000

WHEN + WHERE

Thursday, May 4, 2017 – 11am – 4pm

Pershing Square, Downtown LA

Fallen Fruit will be onsite with backyard oranges to share and our Endless Orchard web app.
We believe our cities could be like communal gardens, so come be a part of the Endless Orchard!
Join us at Pershing Square with
Code Rodeo!

Buffalo Tree Adoption-May 6

UPCOMING EVENT: Endless Orchard in Buffalo!

May 6, 2017 from 11:00am – 2pm
The Endless Orchard
Fallen Fruit with UB Art Galleries

What if instead of going to the grocery store for an apple, you just walked outside your door? 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.

Come plant fruit trees with us and your fellow neighbors on May 6th at Locust Street Art located on 138 Locust Street.

“I’ve wanted to work with Fallen Fruit for a long time, and it seemed to be the perfect match to bring them to Buffalo and into the Fruit Belt to work with the neighborhood to bring fruit back to the Fruit Belt.”
Rachel Adams – curator of UB Art Gallery


Austin Young, Rachel Adams, David Burns, & Harper


We will be planting with Locust Street Art

Join us on The Endless Orchard:

Monument to Sharing- unveiled at LA Historic State Park- Earth Day!

Join us! Two new artworks launch and Fruit Map Bandana Dyeing Workshop!



We unveil our new public artwork, A Monument to Sharing on Earth Day -Saturday, April 22nd

We will also be on site to launch at Los Angeles State Historic Park 1245 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles CA, 90012

Opening Celebration 10am - 5pm - Free Fallen Fruit will be at our public artwork: Monument to Sharing- located at the orange grove near Spring Street and

You are invited to participate in an Endless Orchard Public Fruit Map Bandana Dying Workshop from 11am-2pm More info HERE = Endless Orchard Public Fruit Map



Huffington post story LA Timesstory Endless Orchard is a Creative Capital awarded project and is funded by Creative Capital, The Muriel Pollia Foundation, The Good Works Foundation, The Awesome Foundation, and the Endless Orchard Kickstarter campaign.

The Endless Orchard launch- EARTHDAY 2017

Fallen Fruit Launches Their Worldwide Public Artwork, "Endless Orchard" April 22nd, Earth Day, 2017

"Endless Orchard" invites the public to plant and map fruit trees via a social mapping platform to grow a public, sustainable, worldwide orchard

(Endless Orchard Wallpaper by Fallen Fruit)

LOS ANGELES, April 5, 2017 -- On Earth Day artist duo, FALLEN FRUIT (David Burns & Austin Young) launches the largest public artwork in the world, "Endless Orchard." The ENDLESS ORCHARD is a sustainable, edible, living artwork — fruit trees planted, cared for, and mapped by the public for everyone to share. Members of the public are invited to co-create ENDLESS ORCHARD by mapping existing public fruit trees or planting new ones in front of homes, schools, churches, or businesses. These fruit trees are planted along sidewalks and interstitial urban spaces, allowing us to explore and enjoy our cities in a new way. "The project is co-created by everyone who participates; together, we will make the largest and most generous collaborative public artwork in the world." - Fallen Fruit.

ENDLESS ORCHARD is a social mapping platform that exists simultaneously in the digital and real world. The Endless Orchard web app (endlessorchard.com) is free to use, designed and developed in partnership with Code Rodeo. Anyone, anywhere, can plant a fruit tree along publicly accessible margins of their property and map it on the Endless Orchard web app. With each new participant, the orchard grows larger and is shared with more people. Participants can share their backyard fruit and map trees that exist in public space in their neighborhoods, or trees can be planted in collaboration with cities in public spaces and parks. These street-side plantings delineate trails that connect neighborhoods including urban food deserts to create access to fresh fruit.

Over the last 4 years, Fallen Fruit has planted fruit trees with local community groups, schools, and the general public in Riverside, Portland, Philadelphia, Buffalo, New York, Omaha, New York City, Louisville, Madrid, Puerto Vallarta, Columbus, and along streets and parks in Los Angeles.

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could just walk outside your door and grab an apple instead of going to the grocery store," said Burns. "Over time the trees will become well-picked and openly used by residents and passersby - a living symbol of sharing, and a communal public resource." "We can make our cities like Gardens of Eden," says Young. "This artwork is an invitation to share and create more goodwill."

"In a real sense, it is the app itself which constitutes the claim of being the world's largest public artwork. It incorporates Google Maps, user profiles, connections to kindred local groups, and media sharing, but pointedly also includes free flexible templates and suggested language for the use of any individual or group looking into replicating the action in their own community, including how to pursue permits for use of their own public spaces," says art critic, Shana Nys Dambrot on Huffington Post.

Endless Orchard is a Creative Capital awarded project and is funded by Creative Capital, The Muriel Pollia Foundation, The Good Works Foundation, The Awesome Foundation, and the Endless Orchard Kickstarter campaign.

Endless Orchard is a Creative Capital awarded project and is funded by Creative Capital, The Muriel Pollia Foundation, The Good Works Foundation, The Awesome Foundation, and the Endless Orchard Kickstarter campaign.

Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. Fallen Fruit began by mapping fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles.

Code Rodeo(code.rodeo) is a web and app development, social media, and digital marketing agency based in Boyle Heights. Female owned and operated and with an ethnically diverse team, Code Rodeo works with partners across non-profit and the creative industries to bring to life projects that are socially aware and experientially delightful.

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2 Public Fruit Parks in Columbus, Ohio

Fallen Fruit of Columbus: Block after Block
Call for volunteers!

This spring, Fallen Fruit artists David Burns and Austin Young will partner with the Wexner Center and community organizations to create two public fruit parks in Columbus—Weinland Park Berry Patch (at East 11th Avenue and North 4th Street) and South Side Fruit Park (at South Washington and Reeb Avenues). The parks are a part of Fallen Fruit of Columbus: Block after Block, a suite of evolving site-specific projects designed to provide area neighborhoods with a shared resource (fruit!) and spaces for collaboration. The parks will be accompanied by an installation at the Wex that reflects our city’s rich history.

To support the creation of these parks, we’re looking for volunteers to help plant, host, and care for the fruit trees. The planting for the Weinland Park Berry Patch is scheduled for April 23, and the planting for the South Side Fruit Park is scheduled for April 29.

For more information or to get involved contact Jean Pitman at (614) 292-4614 or [email protected]. Or consider a small gift to help the project grow! Throughout the month of March, you can give $5 or $500—or anything in between—to our Buckeye Funder online crowdfunding campaign.

Weinland Park Berry Patch
1550 N 4th St, Columbus, OH 43201

South Side Fruit Park
345 Reeb Ave, Columbus, OH 43207

Fallen Fruit’s projects in Columbus are produced in close collaboration with The City of Columbus, The Ohio State University Extension, Community Housing Network, Parsons Avenue Merchants Association, The Reeb-Hosack/Steelton Village Community Association, Wagenbrenner Properties, the Weinland Park Community Civic Association, and the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Funding provided by City of Columbus, The Columbus Foundation, Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing, Puffin Foundation West, Ltd., Scotts Miracle-Gro, and the Shackelford Family Foundation.

ENDLESS ORCHARD launches EARTH DAY

EARTH DAY: FALLEN FRUIT LAUNCHES THEIR WORLDWIDE PUBLIC ARTWORK, ENDLESS ORCHARD” April 22nd 2017/Los Angeles State Historic Park (Los Angeles) On Earth Day (April 22, 2015) art collective FALLEN FRUIT (David Burns & Austin Young) launch the largest public artwork in the world, “Endless Orchard.” The ENDLESS ORCHARD is a sustainable, edible, living artwork, fruit trees planted, cared for, and mapped by the public for everyone to share. Members of the public are invited to co-create ENDLESS ORCHARD by mapping existing public fruit trees or planting new ones in front of homes, schools, churches, or businesses. These fruit trees are planted along sidewalks and interstitial urban spaces, allowing us to explore and enjoy our cities in a new way. “The project is co-created by everyone who participates,” Together, we will make the largest and most generous collaborative public artwork in the world. Endless Orchard is an invitation to share and create more goodwill in our neighborhoods, cities, and planet. ENDLESS ORCHARD is a social mapping platform that exists simultaneously in the digital and real world.  Code Rodeo has partnered with Fallen Fruit to design and develop the Endless Orchard website (endlessorchard.com) and mobile app which will be free to use and download. Anyone anywhere with access to a computer or smartphone can plant a fruit tree in front along the margins of public space of their property and map it on the  Endless Orchard . With everyone who participates, the orchard grows larger and is shared with more people.  Participants can share their backyard fruit and map trees that exist in public space in their neighborhoods.  Fruit trees can be planted in collaboration with cities in public spaces and parks. Street side plantings delineate trails that connect neighborhoods- including urban food deserts to create  access to fresh healthy fruit. Fruit is a resource that could be commonly shared.    “Wouldn't it be amazing if you could just walk outside your door and grab an apple instead of going to the grocery store,” said Burns.  “Over time the trees will become well-picked and openly used by residents and passersby - a living symbol of sharing, and a communal public resource.” We can make our cities like community gardens.” says Young. “In a real sense, it is the app itself which constitutes the claim of being the world’s largest public artwork. It incorporates Google Maps, user profiles, connections to kindred local groups, and media sharing, but pointedly also includes free flexible templates and suggested language for the use of any individual or group looking into replicating the action in their own community, including how to pursue permits for use of their own public spaces.” - says art critic, Shana Nys Drambot Operating at the margins of public and private space, and the boundaries of social media and public participation,  Fallen Fruit has planted fruit trees with local community groups, schools and the general public in Riverside, Portland, Philadelphia, Buffalo, NYC, Omaha, Madrid, Puerto Vallarta, Columbus, , and along streets and parks in Los Angeles. ENDLESS ORCHARD will be anchored by  Fallen Fruit’s artwork, the “MONUMENT TO SHARING.”  The monument will be unveiled (April 22nd 2017) at the opening of the Los Angeles State Historic Park. Operated by California State Parks in Downtown LA, the area was once at the epicenter of California fruit growing. Endless Orchard GOALS:
  • To allow for a simple action to make a difference in the world, like planting or mapping just one fruit tree.
  • To use the margins of public and private space to create a public resource of fresh fruit for everyone to share or a treasure map to explore.
  • To make neighborhoods more beautiful and friendlier and to make parks more inviting and responsive to public needs.
  • To foster collaboration among community members and organizations and the world.
  • To inspire dialogue by designing creative and unique fruit inspired installations.
  • To encourage everyone to give back to their city and community.
“Join us!  Fruit trees live longer than most people, and by expanding the Endless Orchard into your community you are sending a message to your kids - maybe even your kids’ kids’ kids! - not to mention supporting a positive collective attitude about sharing, community goodwill and commitment to sustainable lifestyles.”- Fallen Fruit, David Burns and Austin Young   Endless Orchard is a Creative Capital awarded project and funded by Creative Capital, The Muriel Pollia Foundation, The Good Works Foundation, The Awesome Foundation, and Endless Orchard Kickstarter campaign. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fallenfruit/the-endless-orchard-phase-1 http://www.creative-capital.org/projects/view/747 Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. Fallen Fruit began by mapping fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles.http://fallenfruit.org/about/ Code Rodeo is a web and app development, social media, and digital marketing agency based in Boyle Heights. Female owned and operated and with an ethnically diverse team, Code Rodeo works with partners across non-profit and the creative industries to bring to life projects that are socially aware and experientially delightful.   https://endlessorchard.com/  (coming soon) http://fallenfruit.org/ http://code.rodeo/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fallenfruit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fallen_fruit/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fallenfruit YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/fallenfruit1 #fallenfruit #shareyourfruit #monumenttosharing #talktostrangers

Propagation Workshop

Join us! for a Propagation Workshop:  DIRTY TALK Propagation Workshop with Fallen Fruit Let's propagate figs and dragon fruit to share on the Endless Orchard!   at USC Roski School of Art and Design img_0788-propagate-poster-500-px   Fallen Fruit's Propagation Stations are public, participatory projects that anyone can perform by propagating a drought tolerant fruit bearing plant that can then be added to Fallen Fruit's The Endless Orchard. Interested participants should bring a fruit tree clipping of their choice to the workshop (dragonfruit, prickly pear, and fig preferred), we will help facilitate propagation. Propagation supplies and a limited number of fruit tree clippings will be provided; refreshments will be served!   img_0749-fallen-fruit-500-px      

LA 2050 Grant Challenge: Endless Orchard-Phase 2

endless-jpgHello Friends, The voting has begun for the LA2050 Grants Challenge! Fallen Fruit is in the running to fund The Endless Orchard: Phase Two which imagines LA as a colorful garden of eden, lush with fruit trees bearing juicy shareable fruits—all planted by and for Angelenos in public space. Tree tags placed at each fruit tree identify it as part of a network of sharing. Anyone can collaborate with the project by planting, mapping, sharing, and navigating the fruit trees via the free online website and app. The Endless Orchard: Phase Two officially launches this winter at the new Los Angeles State Historic Park, the trailhead of The Endless Orchard, an orange grove and a monument to sharing. Come help us plant, map, and share! And win the LA2050 Grant Challenge. Vote for Fallen Fruit! Vote now! https://challenge.la2050.org/entry/the-endless-orchard-phase-two Voting ends at 5PM October 25. Please forward, click, and share. When you vote for Fallen Fruit, you vote for this!
  • Access to healthy food
  • Resilient communities
  • Self-sufficiency
  • Tree canopy cover
  • Reduced exposure to air toxins
  • Decreased obesity
  • High walk/bike/transit scores
  • Collaborative Spirit
Our Partners include: Code Rodeo, Creative Capital and Los Angeles State Historic Park and everyone who wants to collaborate with us! Learn more about the LA2050 Initiative: la2050.org/  The Endless Orchard project collaborates with the citizens of Los Angeles planting fruit trees on the margins of public and private space, in front of homes and businesses and spaces like parkways, bike paths and alleys. Tree tags placed at each fruit tree identify it as part of a network of sharing. Anyone can collaborate with the project by planting, mapping, sharing, and navigating the fruit trees via the free online website and app. endless-orchard Help us  create an Endless Orchard:
  1. Share why you love the #EndlessOrchard for a #betterLA.
  2. email your friends and ask them to vote for The Endless Orchard- from Oct. 18 thru Oct.
  3. Visit my project page at: The Endless Orchard
  4. If you use an email address, you will be emailed a link that you need to click in order to verify your address.
  5. Click “Vote for this idea” to vote for me!
  6. Once you’ve voted, you’ll get a notification at the top of the screen and an email verifying that your vote has been counted.
  7. Log in on to the My LA2050 voting site. If you don’t have an account, it’s free to join. You can use social sign-in via Twitter or Facebook or your email address.
  8. Remember, you can vote once per goal category during the entire voting period, so please let your friends know and encourage them to check out project ideas in other categories!
endless-orchard-500pix The website and app are a collaboration with Code Rodeo, a web and app development, social media, and digital marketing agency based in Boyle Heights. Female owned and operated, Code Rodeo works to bring to life projects that are socially aware and experientially meaningful. The free app will allow anyone to participate and grow the project in their own neighborhood.  The public mapping functionality allows the trail to continually grow. Users upload video, photo and text associated with a tree. The Endless Orchard was awarded the prestigious Creative Capital grant in 2013. Creative Capital remains our partner and will use their vast resources and expertise to help publicize this project and ensure its success. The Los Angeles State Historic Park will provide us space to have our public tree donations and planting events. Permanent Signage at the park will describe the Endless Orchard and maps will be available.

Sites Unseen – Lemonade Stand in San Francisco!

postcard-4inx6in-h-frontSites Unseen will present its first large scale public art installation Sunday, October 9, 2016 from 3PM–6PM at a free all-ages event adjacent to the Moscone Center Garage at 255 Third Street in downtown San Francisco’s Yerba Buena neighborhood. At 3:30PM, project and community leaders will gather at the northwest corner of the garage to present opening remarks. The event, open to all, will celebrate the installation of "Moscone Contemporary Art Centre & Garage," artist Barry McGee’s multi-colored painted artwork installed in several locations on the exterior of the Moscone Center Garage. The event will also feature temporary, participatory programming by local artists Ramekon O'Arwisters and Leah Rosenberg, and by Los Angeles-based artist collective Fallen Fruit.

Lemonade and Dragon Fruit! August 13th

Upcoming Summer Participatory Events In Los Angeles! The HUB is the central site of LA Water Public Art Biennial, 2016   see the official event calendar.
The HUB 3306 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Water-wise Public Planters: A RAINBOW OF FRUIT TREES : July 16 - August 17

Propagation Station : August 13th  10am- 12pm 

Lemonade Stand :  August 13th 11am- 1pm

Lemonade Stand is a public participatory project where in exchange for a glass of lemonade the public is asked to draw their portrait onto a lemon using a black marker.

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Propagation Station : August 13th  11am- 1pm 

a public participatory project that anyone can perform by propagating a drought tolerant fruit bearing plant that can be added to The Endless Orchard and shared with everyone. Bring cuttings of your back yard fruit to share and plant them around LA!   ...Dragon Fruit, Tunas, Fig, Pomegranate, Pineapple!  This years favorite fruit is Dragonfruit- a succulent fruit and superfood native to Mexico - but also a plant that grows easily in Southern California.  Anyone can propagate, share, and adopt a cutting they will take home and root and then transplant and map on the Endless Orchard.  cuttings are decorated with paint and inks to illustrate a “spirit animal” or “messages” to invoke goodwill and citizenship in the City of Los Angeles.  There is no money exchanged- just knowledge sharing and fruit tree sharing.

 BYOF: Do you have a fruit tree in your yard or in your neighborhood that you **LOVE**?? We  want to help you share the love. Bring a young branch from the fruit tree or plant that is 2’-3’ feet long with all of the smaller branches and leave still attached. NOTE: Make sure that you do not cut from a tree that currently have fruit ripening (this will not work)

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Water-wise Public Planters: A RAINBOW OF FRUIT TREES : August 13th 10am - 12pm by Fallen Fruit is an ongoing installation on view at the HUB.

The Endless Orchard is an on-going installation of fruit trees in (the margins of) public space and is designed to provide communities with an urban experience that can be cared for, cultivated and shared by the public. ‘Urban Fruit Trails’ have been planted in Los Angeles, New York City, Omaha,  Portland and more. The goal is to connect neighborhoods with fruit bearing trees and create walking trails from public transportation to local landmarks. The public fruit trees are planted on the margins of public space, along sidewalks, alleys and parkways where the fruit can be shared with everyone.IMG_0300 copy

Presented by Dyson and Womack at the HUB - with  the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Public Art Division, CURRENT:LA Water Public Art Biennial uses contemporary art as a platform for the exchange of ideas around critical issues our city faces together.

a Rainbow of Fruit Trees!

Water Wise Public Planters: A Rainbow of Fruit Trees! at the HUB  by Fallen Fruit  3306 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles  installed with the public on Saturday July 16, 2016.  The HUB is the central site of Current:LA WATER: Water Public Art Biennial uses contemporary art as a platform for the exchange of ideas around critical issues our city faces together. fallen fruit los angeles public art Fallen Fruit's Barrel Painting and Planting at the HUB with our Water-wise Public Planters. HUB> CURRENT:LA CALENDAR water current la fallen fruit fallen fruit public artThe HUB is  hosted  by DYSON AND WOMACK Fallen Fruit's installation of painted  Barrels at the HUB  forms a RAINBOW of FRUIT TREES and will be part of The Endless Orchard - an on-going installation in (the margins of) public space, designed to provide communities with an urban experience that can be cared for, cultivated and shared by the public. These ‘Urban Fruit Trails’ have been planted in Los Angeles, New York City, Omaha, Portland and more. The goal is to connect neighborhoods with fruit bearing trees and create walking trails from public transportation to local landmarks. The public fruit trees are along sidewalks, alleys and parkways where the fruit can be shared with everyone. current la fallen fruit public art pokemon ponyta pokemon fallen fruit public art

Da FUNction!

Join us at Ron Finley's Da FUNction!  June 10th 7-10pm

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The Endless Orchard at William Mead Housing Planting Day!

WILLIAM MEAD RESIDENTS: Plant fruit trees for everyone to share! Join Fallen Fruit’s ‘The Endless Orchard’ Planting and Barrel Painting Day for William Mead Homes! June 5th - 10 am to 2 pm in front of William Mead’s Social Hall *This Tree adoption is for William Mead Homes residents only william_mead_housing_dog_town Adopt a community fruit tree and barrel for William Mead Housing: What if instead of going to the grocery store for an orange or lemon, you just walked outside your door? Imagine a future in which cities and neighborhoods across the world are not only full of fruit trees, but mapped and labeled so that you can walk up to them and pick the fruit yourself. It takes a community to grow an Endless Orchard - and you can help bring this sustainable, collaborative public artwork to fruition! Being a part The Endless Orchard is easy:
  1. Sign up to adopt one of 24 fruit trees to share with the William Mead Homes community
  2. Join us on Saturday, June 5th to plant the trees and paint the 55 gallon planter!
  3. Agree to help care for the fruit trees and share the fruit with neighbors.
  4. Together, we’ll make a map and place the fruit trees within William Mead community.
To Participate: email  [email protected]. Include your name and phone number. LIMITED NUMBER OF TREES SO SIGN UP TODAY ! The Endless Orchard is an on-going installation of fruit trees on or in the margins of public space and designed to provide communities with an urban experience that can be cared for, cultivated and shared by the public. ‘Urban Fruit Trails’ have already been planted in Los Angeles, Riverside, Omaha and Portland. The goal is to connect neighborhoods and create walking trails from public transportation to local destinations. The fruit trees are planted on the margins of public space, along sidewalks and parkways where the fruit can be shared with everyone. The trailhead will be at the orange grove in Los Angeles State Historic Park and fruit trees will lead out into the surrounding neighborhoods.   www.fallenfruit.org           

The Endless Orchard: phase one- planting day!

PHASE 1:   We've planted tons of fruit trees in the neighborhood surrounding Los Angeles State Historic Park in Downtown LA!  In the weeks leading up to this Phase of The Endless Orchard, we went door to door in the community to meet with residents, businesses, schools and churches and we found stewards for the new public fruit trees. These same neighbors came to help us plant the trees in front of their properties along sidewalks and agreed to take care of the trees and share fruit with the everyone.  

Join us for The Endless Orchard PHASE 2!  We'll be planting more trees, creating our Monument to Sharing, and launching our mobile app where anyone can plant, map and share their fruit!  

Love,

David and Austin

DONATE: Give a 100% tax deductible Donation to help cover our expenses for The Endless Orchard Phase 2. Volunteer for our next planting day! Come helps us plant or if you live near The Los Angeles State Historic Park, adopt a free tree, map and care for it.   Becoming part of The Endless Orchard is easy: 1. You have space along sidewalks and fences on private property – a home, local business or apartment building. 2. The space is sunny and is already being watered or can be watered regularly. 3. You agree to share the fruit tree with neighbors and passersby and be part of The Endless Orchard where Trees are mapped and shared with the community. 4. Join us March 19th at 10 am at Los Angeles State Historic Park. We will give you a fruit tree. (Apricots, Apples, Figs, Grapes, Pomegranates and Plums.) We will have volunteers to help plant if needed. It takes a community to grow an Endless Orchard – and you can help bring this sustainable, collaborative public art work to fruition. email > [email protected] and get involved! It’s free to participate – sign up for a fruit tree at no cost and/or volunteer and help us plant trees on the margins of public space. The Endless Orchard is an on-going installation of fruit trees on or in the margins of public space and designed to provide communities with an urban experience that can be cared for, cultivated and shared by the public. ‘Urban Fruit Trails’ have already been planted in Los Angeles, Riverside, Omaha and Portland. The goal is to connect neighborhoods and create walking trails from public transportation to local destinations. The fruit trees are planted on the margins of public space, along sidewalks and parkways where the fruit can be shared with everyone. The trailhead will be at the orange grove in Los Angeles State Historic Park and fruit trees will lead out into the surrounding neighborhoods.  The Endless Orchard App will launch in June 2016 - anyone, anywhere can participate and share fruit!

The Endless Orchard planting day in Louisville, Kentucky

Hey Louisville! Be a part of Fallen Fruit’s ‘The Endless Orchard’ and help create an URBAN FRUIT TRAIL around historic Portland in Louisville. WED 3.23.16 9AM Shippingport Garden, 2500 Montgomery Street portland endless orchard fallen fruit Fallen Fruit teams up with two local nonprofits, Trees Louisville and Louisville Grows, to plant fruit trees on The Endless Orchard in the historic Portland neighborhood at the Portland Orchard Project. We will plant and map fruit trees for our massive edible artwork, The Endless Orchard in Louisville with Trees Louisville and Louisville Grows as a companion project to our upcoming 21c Museum Hotel art installation in Proof on Main. We will be planting fruit trees  in the Portland neighborhood on March 23, starting at 9am. The public is invited to come and learn more about The Endless Orchard, Trees Louisville, and Louisville Grows. RSVP to [email protected] if you are interested in volunteering.

The Endless Orchard Kick Off Planting Day!

Be a part of Fallen Fruit’s ‘The Endless Orchard’ and help create an URBAN FRUIT TRAIL around The Los Angeles State Historic Park Planting day! March 19th at 10 am to 2pm at 1799 Baker Street Meet us under the North Broadway Bridge at the Viaduct. the endless orchard fallen fruit los angeles Volunteer! Come helps us plant or if you live near The Los Angeles State Historic Park, adopt a free tree, map and care for it. Becoming part of The Endless Orchard is easy: 1. You have space along sidewalks and fences on private property – a home, local business or apartment building. 2. The space is sunny and is already being watered or can be watered regularly. 3. You agree to share the fruit tree with neighbors and passersby and be part of The Endless Orchard where Trees are mapped and shared with the community. 4. Join us March 19th at 10 am at Los Angeles State Historic Park. We will give you a fruit tree. (Apricots, Apples, Figs, Grapes, Pomegranates and Plums.) We will have volunteers to help plant if needed. It takes a community to grow an Endless Orchard - and you can help bring this sustainable, collaborative public art work to fruition. email > [email protected] and get involved! It’s free to participate - sign up for a fruit tree at no cost and/or volunteer and help us plant trees on the margins of public space. 20160308_095923 200 beautiful fruit trees await adoption. The Endless Orchard is an on-going installation of fruit trees on or in the margins of public space and designed to provide communities with an urban experience that can be cared for, cultivated and shared by the public. ‘Urban Fruit Trails’ have already been planted in Los Angeles, Riverside, Omaha and Portland. The goal is to connect neighborhoods and create walking trails from public transportation to local destinations. The fruit trees are planted on the margins of public space, along sidewalks and parkways where the fruit can be shared with everyone. The trailhead will be at the orange grove in Los Angeles State Historic Park and fruit trees will lead out into the surrounding neighborhoods. The Endless Orchard by Fallen Fruit, David Burns and Austin Young. It's a Creative Capital awarded project. It's organized in collaboration with Los Angeles State Historic Park. The Endless Orchard app is collaboration with digital agency Code Rodeo. Partners include: Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Bronx River Art Center, Caldera, CSULA (California State University Los Angeles), Chung King Road Association (Chinatown), Concordia University, Creative Capital, Friends of Trees, Good Works Foundation, HOLA (Heart of Los Angeles), Kent Bellows Mentoring Program, l.a. Eyeworks, LACC (Los Angeles City College), LACC (Los Angeles Conservation Corps), Los Angeles State Historic Park, MRCA (Mountain Recreation Conservancy Agency), Park To Playa, The Awesome Foundation, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The Muriel Pollia Foundation, The Rauschenberg Foundation, OPC (Oficina de Proyectos Culturales), Open School North, Peninsula School, Portland Art Museum, Portland Fruit Tree Project, Root Pouch, Wexner Center for the Arts and more. About Fallen Fruit Fallen Fruit began by mapping fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles. The collaboration has expanded to include public projects, site-specific installations and happenings in various cities around the world. Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. www.fallenfruit.org *The Endless Orchard map is for illustration purposes and is 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

Fallen Fruit_ Fruit Hands Support our KICKSTARTER. We are expanding the Urban Fruit Trails in neighborhoods & expanding the Endless Orchard app in 2016. Please support public fruit! PLANT, MAP, AND SHARE FRUIT! The Endless Orchard is a collaborative 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 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 tree explains that this is part of a network of Urban Fruit Trails and that fruit is a symbol of sharing with others. The California State Historic Park becomes a central landmark and a site for the 'Monument to Sharing' leading to Urban Fruit Trails that reach into neighborhoods around Downtown Los Angeles and out into the world. 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!
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Urban Fruit Trails- Park To Playa

Park To Playa- Public Fruit Tree Adoption Fallen Fruit's PUBLIC FRUIT TREE ADOPTION We gave away 120 beautiful fruit trees that new owners agreed to plant on next to sidewalks to share with their neighbors and planted 5 Public Fruit Trees in Rueben Ingold Park for EVERYONE! with Office of Mark Ridley-Thomas, Supervisor Second District and MRCA and LA County Parks. ABOUT PARK TO PLAYA The Park to Playa Trail will be a 13 mile trail network connecting the Baldwin Hills Parklands to the Pacific Ocean. Efforts are underway to create a seamless pedestrian and bike connection starting with the Stocker Corridor on the east, connecting to Ruben Ingold Park, Norman O. Houston Park, Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, and the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, among other destinations. The Stocker Corridor segment of the project will include an Urban Fruit Trailhead that will offer seasonal public fruit. Construction is expected to begin on this segment of the trail in February. When complete, the Park to Playa Trail will be Los Angeles County’s first urban regional trail.

Urban Fruit Trails- Riverside Art Museum

Riverside Art Museum (RAM) is pleased to announce an exciting new Riverside Art Make public participatory project! RAM is bringing Los Angeles–based, internationally acclaimed art collaborative Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young) back to Riverside! Fallen Fruit produces community-based projects that use fruit as a medium to explore social engagement. Last fall, Fallen Fruit went to the Eastside for the Riverside Art Make, where they presented their "Lemonade Stand.” In exchange for drawing a self-portrait onto a lemon, each participant received a glass of organic lemonade. See the community's portraits by Fallen Fruit HERE: On Saturday, February 21 from 12-3pm at Lincoln Park in Eastside, Fallen Fruit will work with RAM and residents to install Riverside’s first "Urban Fruit Trail.” Come help us plant and grow an Urban Fruit Trail!, our public artwork in Riverside! We will plant 12 trees in Lincoln Park and extend the trail throughout the neighborhood with your participation and help. If you (or your neighbor) has a sunny space along a sidewalk and where you can water regularly, contact us at [email protected] and help us create an Urban Fruit Trail. It is free to participate! Becoming part of the Urban Fruit Trail is easy: 1. You have space along sidewalks and fences on private property - a home, local business or apartment building. 2. The space is sunny and is already being watered or can be watered regularly. 3. You agree to share the fruit tree with neighbors and passersby and be part of the Urban Fruit Trail. Each recipient signs an agreement promising to care for the tree and share the fruit with others. If where you live has room for more than one fruit tree and you can care for them, let us know! If you don’t have space for a tree — come help us plant fruit trees in the Eastside neighborhood. Please understand, that these are bare root fruit trees, and must be planted the same day of the event (If possible , we will help you). All of these fruit trees will become part of a network of Urban Fruit Trails and our upcoming public artwork with Creative Capital: Endless Orchard. Riverside Art Make is supported by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation. Riverside-URBAN-FRUIT-TRAILS-3 Riverside-URBAN-FRUIT-TRAILS-spanish For more information on Urban Fruit Trails by Fallen Fruit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLj3NPivxIo ARTBOUND

Pomegranate Adoption- Fallen Fruit of the Skirball

On Sunday, May 4, visitors were invited to the Skirball to adopt a pomegranate tree. David Burns and Austin Young were on site and distributed 150 young trees and encouraged recipients to plant them in public space or along the borders of private property, where the fruits will be shared and enjoyed by the community. Each recipient was asked to sign an adoption form promising to plant the tree immediately and care for it until it is established and healthy. Skirball Cultural Center presents FALLEN FRUIT OF THE SKIRBALL. on exhibition through October 12, 2014 A centuries-old ketubbah (Jewish marriage contract), the pomegranate, and love serve as inspiration for the artists’ latest public participatory art commission. Contribute to the exhibition here: Share a photo of u & someone u love for the installation, Fallen Fruit of the Skirball. more info here: