Fallen Fruit

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"Public Fruit" is the concept behind the Fallen Fruit, an activist art project which started as a mapping of all the public fruit in our neighborhood. We ask all of you to contribute your maps so they expand to cover the United States and then the world. We encourage everyone to harvest, plant and sample public fruit, which is what we call all fruit on or overhanging public spaces such as sidewalks, streets or parking lots. David Burns is an artist who currently teaches at CalArts and lives and works in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts 1993 and has received an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of California, Irvine in 2005. His recent video work has shown around the world in festivals and galleries including; InsideOUT, ADD TV, Pressplay, Mix Festival and NEWFEST. Recent art projects have been shown at Track 16 Bergamot Station, OTIS, ArtCenter, Machine Project, WORKS gallery, REDCAT, MESSHALL in chicago, and at Artists Space in New York. Publications about his recent works can be seen in FAB magazine, SCOOP!, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, SUPERSONIC catalogue, Rhizome.org, PLOT magazine and Metropolis Magazine. Matias Viegener is a Los Angeles based writer who teaches at CalArts in Critical Studies and the MFA Writing Program. His criticism appears in the anthologies Queer Looks: Lesbian & Gay Experimental Media (Routledge), and Camp Grounds: Gay & Lesbian Style (U Mass). He has fiction in the anthologies Men on Men 3, Sundays at Seven, Dear World, Abject, Suspect Thoughts, and Discontents, edited by Dennis Cooper. He has shown work or performed at ArtCenter's Windtunnel gallery, Mess Hall in Chicago, The Silver Lake Film Festival, The Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, and The Drawing Center in New York, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Highways, Sushi, Beyond Baroque, New Langton Arts in San Francisco, the L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art and the LaJolla Museum of Contemporary Art. He is the editor and co-translator of Georges Batailles' The Trial of Gilles de Rais. He has most recently published fiction and criticism in Bomb, Artforum, Art Issues, Artweek, Art in America, Afterimage, Cargo, Critical Quarterly, High Performance, Framework, Oversight, American Book Review, Jacaranda Review, Fiction International, Paragraph, Semiotext(e) and X-tra. Austin Young, photographer and videographer, is based in Los Angeles. His work can be seen regularly in Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine, and has appeared in Surface, Flaunt, Vogue, Spin, Rolling Stone, Q, and many others. He has collaborated with artists Diamanda Galas, Margaret Cho, Skinny Puppy, and The Velvet Hammer Burlesque on creating their recent imagery. His portraits include photos of Leigh Bowery, Lypsinka, Siouxsie Sioux, Nina Hagen, Debbie Harry, Jimmy Scott, John Doe, Sandra Bernhard, Ziyi Zhang, Mark Almond, Ann Magnuson, Amy Poehler, etc. His recent video work has shown around the world in festivals and galleries including; MESS HALL in Chicago, InsideOUT, Mix Festival, Framline, Reeling, and The Silver Lake Film Festival. "The Stroke" won best short of 2003 on ADD-TV. The feature length documentary, "Hadda Brooks, This is My Life," about torch singer, Hadda Brooks, will be shown at festivals next year. Austinyoung.com is featured in Taschen's 1000 Favorite Websites and reviews about his works are published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Elegy, and Premonition.

important exhibitions from Fallen Fruit

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