| Using fruit as our lens, Fallen Fruit investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community. From protests to proposals for new urban green spaces, we aim to reconfigure the relation between those who have resources and those who do not, to examine the nature of & in the city, and to investigate new, shared forms of land use and property. Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration that began with creating maps of public fruit: the fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles.
Over time our interests have expanded from mapping public fruit to include Public Fruit Jams in which we invite the citizens to bring homegrown or public fruit and join in communal jam-making; Nocturnal Fruit Forages, nighttime neighborhood fruit tours; Community Fruit Tree Plantings on the margins of private property and in community gardens; Public Fruit Park proposals in Hollywood, Los Feliz and downtown LA; and Neighborhood Infusions, taking the fruit found on one street and infusing it in alcohol to capture the spirit of the place. |
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guerrilla gardening: Gardening public space, with or without permission.
Los Angeles Guerrilla Gardening (LAGG) started on a summer night in Hollywood, CA. We started as a group of friends looking for a fun activity and a way to brighten up a local neighborhood. After our first dig, we had an outpouring of support from the community and soon realized what our mission as LAGG would soon become:
To get our hands dirty by starting gardens all over Los Angeles. To be a resource for other potential Guerrilla Gardeners and a homebase for people interested in brightening their own communities.
We have had Guerrilla Gardeners as young as 10 and as old as 80get involved in some of our gardens and continue to meet new people who continually help us create a sense of community.
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