Public fruit!
Fallen Fruit is an artist collective whose projects are very community-based, and also based on the simple principle that the branches of fruit trees that hang over public rights-of-way bear public fruit.
Their latest project is a Seattle project: a “jam session” that took place last night at Lawrimore Project as part of this show. They mailed the jam up in jars in a box—made of oranges, plums, grapes, rosemary, and basil, among other publicly harvested crops—with instructions for three people in Seattle to apply the jam in whatever way they saw fit to a large canvas on the wall.
This “jam session” would then be the basis for other musicians to respond to—in fact, that’s the basis of the entire group show, called Scores and curated by Robert Crouch and Ed Patuto (going under the name Volume), including the artists Nayland Blake, Simon Leung, Steve Roden, Steven Hull, Laetitia Sonami, Monique Jenkinson, Tomo Isoyama, Lucky Dragons, Keep Adding, and more. Each work in the gallery is its own work as well as the basis for a future interpretation by a musician or sound artist. The opening is tonight, but performances are to come.
Instead of smearing it on the wall, you could donate your excess or “public” fruit to food banks, or Lettuce Link: http://www.solid-ground.org/Programs/Nut….
Jen,
When you mention art and food I think of Juan Sanchez Cotan’s masterpiece:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…
It’s my favorite still life. And, I think the very first.
Sounds a bit forced, no?
@2, that’s gorgeous. What do you think the odds are that people will be admiring the jam work of these hippies in four hundred years? Or four hundred seconds even?
@2: That Cotan is a killer. So great. Thanks for posting it.
PS There’s a serious Cotan lover in Seattle: Gary Faigin at Gage Academy. Just if you ever want to connect and nerd out.
@ Jen & Fnarf. Thanks. Yeah, that piece is a real gem.
If Lucky Dragons are involved in this, it almost certainly merits our attention.