Fallenfruit

by Dave Burns, Matias Veigener, and Austin Young
http://www.fallenfruit.org/index.html

FallenFruit.org maps all the 'public fruit' planted on private property that overhangs public space. This project encourages people to harvest, plant and share public fruit. The project is a response to accelerating urbanization, as well as issues of grassroots community activism and social responsibility. The mission of the project is to expand our community fruit maps, photos and essays to create an online, global public fruit resource. A film on the production of Fallenfruit.org is forthcoming.

Bio

Dave 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 in festivals around the world and various galleries including; InsideOUT, ADD-TV, Pressplay, MIX Festival and NEWFEST. Recent art projects have been shown at Track 16 Bergamot Station, OTIS, ArtCenter, Machine Gallery, 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, PLOT magazine and Metropolis Magazine.

Matias Viegener is a Los Angeles based writer who teaches in Critical Studies and the MFA Writing Program at CalArts. His criticism appears in the anthologies Queer Looks: Lesbian & Gay Experimental Media, and Camp Grounds: Gay & Lesbian Style. He has fiction in the anthologies Men on Men 3, Sundays at Seven, Dear World, Suspect Thoughts, and Discontents, edited by Dennis Cooper. He has shown work or performed at Mess Hall in Chicago; The Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, and The Drawing Center in New York; ArtCenter's Windtunnel gallery, LACE, Highways, Beyond Baroque in LA;, New Langton Arts in SF, and the LaJolla Museum of Contemporary Art. He's editor and co-translator of Georges Batailles' The Trial of Gilles de Rais. He has also published in Bomb, Artforum, Art Issues, Artweek, Afterimage, Critical Quarterly, High Performance, Framework, American Book Review, Fiction International, Paragraph, Semiotext(e) and X-tra.

Austin Young's work is primarily photography and video. He currently works and lives in Los Angeles. His work can be seen in Interview Magazine, and has appeared in Surface, Flaunt, Vogue, Spin, Rolling Stone, and many others. He is currently collaborating with Siouxsie Sioux, Diamanda Galas, Margaret Cho, Skinny Puppy, and The Velvet Hammer Burlesque on creating their recent imagery. His portrait subjects include: Miranda July, Leigh Bowery, Lypsinka, Nina Hagen, Debbie Harry, Jimmy Scott, Sandra Bernhard, Ziyi Zhang, Mark Almond, Ann Magnuson. Recent video work has shown at InsideOUT, Mix Festival, Frameline, Reeling, and The Silver Lake Film Festival. "The Stroke" won best short of 2003 on ADD-TV.