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Fallen Fruit is a Los Angeles based artists' collaboration composed of David Burns and Austin Young. The project was originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. Using photography and video as well as performance and installation art, Fallen Fruit's work focuses on urban space, neighborhood, located citizenship and community and their relationship to fruit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fallen Fruit Biography )〕 == Overview == Taking their name from the book of Leviticus (Lv 19:9-10), Fallen Fruit began in 2004 as a response to a call by ''The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fallen Fruit: A Mapping of Food Resources in Los Angeles )〕 for artists' projects that addressed social or political issues but did so in the form of proposing a solution rather than raising a critique. Burns, Viegener and Young created a map of what they call "Public Fruit" - fruit growing in or over public property such as streets and sidewalks, in the neighborhood of Silver Lake in Los Angeles. In addition to creating an ongoing set of public fruit maps, the group has become known for their colorful photographs, which originally featured the three collaborators exploring the city's neighborhoods, engaging in public fruit tree planting, or even protesting fruit issues in front of Los Angeles City Hall. These are part of an ongoing series of narrative photographs and video works that explore the social and political implications of people's relationship to fruit and the world around them. In recent years the group's goal of imagining a city which behaved more responsibly with its residents both human and horticultural has expanded to take on more global and historical concerns. In 2008, as part of their participation in "The Gatherers" show at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the group embarked on a new long-term project called "The Colonial History of Fruit". Using a variety of media, this work examines both the objective or factual history of fruit – how the fruit we eat traveled through time and space to arrive in our daily life – and the subjective or anecdotal history: how and when an individual first tasted a fruit, or how a certain tree was tended by one family, or remembered by immigrants. All of Fallen Fruit's work moves from, through or into fruit in some manner. They have said that fruit "as a media" is interesting to them because it is transhistorical and crosses all classes, ages and ethnic groups. It is seen as a symbol of goodness, bounty and generosity, and it is the food that appears most often in art. This is in part because of its symbolic values, but also its aesthetic qualities of form, color and depth. In addition, fruit is the most commonly exchanged gift of food, and thus can serve as an allegory for many social relationships formed or characterized by exchange. Fruit both represents both something ordinary or everyday and something special. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fallen Fruit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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