Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young. Since 2013, Burns and Young have continued the collaboration. Fallen Fruit began in Los Angeles, creating maps of fruit trees growing on or over public property. The collaboration has expanded to include serialized public projects, site-specific installations, and happenings in cities around the world. Using fruit as a medium or a metaphor, Fallen Fruit investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood, and new forms of citizenship with the aim to reconfigure the relationship of sharing and to explore understandings of public and private, in the real world and real time. Fallen Fruit’s oeuvre includes photographic portraits, experimental documentary videos, public art installations, and curatorial projects.
Fallen Fruit's residency at McColl Center is sponsored by the Blumenthal Foundation.