Gastro-Vision: The Fruit of Experience

Fallen Fruit Collective, American Family, 2008. Giclee print, 40 x 60 in. Courtesy the artists.

Check out the Art:21 blog, where I've written about EATLACMA, a year-long project at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Fallen Fruit Collective. An excerpt:

Fallen Fruit Collective formed six years ago through a project by artists David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young for the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. The trio created a street-by-street diagram of fruit trees growing on or over public property in their Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. While the city boasts bananas, peaches, avocados, lemons, oranges, kumquats, plums, pomegranates, and other fruits growing year-round, this bounty is not always shared. Mapping “public fruit” was a way to approach food resource and accessibility concerns in urban space. From the beginning, Fallen Fruit urged city officials, urban planning groups, and property owners to plant with the goal of yielding edible goods for the local populace. You might call Burns, Viegener, and Young the locavores of contemporary art.

Read the rest here.