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Fallen Fruit: SHOW US HOW YOU EAT

April 16, 2010newsArt Culture, Contact, Culture And Politics, E Mail Address, Endless Images, Endless Stream, Exhibition, Food Art, Fruits, Inclusion, June 27, Lacma, Meditation, Mouths, Ongoing Project, Participants, Participatory, Presents, Video Project, Youtube

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Fallen Fruit introduces Show Us How You Eat, a participatory online video project, 2010, and is seeking your videos of eating, up to 60 seconds in length.

Though there are endless images of food in art, and even still images of food in peoples mouths, we realize there is very little documentation of people actually eating. In Show Us How You Eat we solicit participants around the world on YouTube to send us one-minute clips of them eating not preparing, cutting, or cooking, but actually eating, chewing and swallowing food. These clips are combined into an endless stream of smiling mastication, a meditation on the act of eating that connects each and every one of us.

A selection of the videos submitted to Show Us How You Eat will be included in an exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA (June 27-November 7, 2010), as part of EATLACMA, a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics.

HOW TO ENTER

Contact information: In order for your work to be considered please include your name and e-mail address with your entry.

Deadline: This is an ongoing project, but in order to be considered for inclusion in the Fallen Fruit Presents the Fruits of LACMA exhibition, submit your entry before May 31.

MORE INFO HERE:Â YouTube – SHOW US HOW YOU EAT.

Fallen Fruit Presents EAT LACMA

January 9, 2010EcoLOGIC LAArt Culture, Collectives, Common Ground, Culture And Politics, Curator, David Burns, Exhibition, Food Art, Human Relationships, June 27, Lacma, Matias, Michele, Museum Campus, Presents, Richness, Social Role

Februaryâ€“November 2010

EAT LACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. Fusing the richness of LACMA’s permanent collection with the ephemerality of food and the natural growth cycle, EAT LACMA’s projects consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. EAT LACMA unfolds seasonally, with artist’s gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, hands-on public events, and a concurrent exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA (June 27-November 7, 2010). It culminates in a day-long event (November 7, 2010) in which over fifty artists and collectives will activate, intervene, and re-imagine the entire museum’s campus and galleries. EAT LACMA is curated by Fallen Fruitâ€”David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Youngâ€”and LACMA curator Michele Urton.

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Jeff Koons and art as big bling

April 11, 2009news, RSA Arts & Ecology19th Century America, Angeles County Museum, Applebaum, Art Institution, Art Institutions, Bling, Fritz Haeg, Guggenheim Bilbao, Jeff Koons, Jeff Koons Balloon Dog, Lacma, Life Size Replica, Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Metropolitan Museum Of Art New York, MOCA, Museum Of Art New York, Newspaper Reports, Patti Smith, Richard Serra, Urban System

With reference to the post below on the value of art, The Art Newspaper reports that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is about to commission Jeff Koons to create a sculpture of a life size replica of a train that will dangle from a crane – commemorating the railroadâ€™s part in 19th century Americaâ€™s westward migration. â€œWeâ€™re talking about a $25m work,â€ says Koons.

Twenty-five million makes it the most expensive artwork ever commissioned by a museum – even more expensive than Richard Serraâ€™s $20m commission for the Guggenheim, Bilbao. Talks between LACMA and Koons began two years go, in those long-gone days when it looked like the boom was going on for ever. In times like these, it seems absurd for an art institution to be shelling out this much for a single artwork. And you donâ€™t even have to be of the Patti Smith opinion, that Koonsâ€™ work is â€œjust litter upon the earthâ€, to think this kind of commission is a very bad idea right now.

I was in Los Angeles a couple of months ago. The nature of the city means that the larger art institutions like LACMA and the struggling MOCA seem to have so little connnection to the real life of the city.

The artist Fritz Haeg, who I interviewed for a piece in The Observer thatâ€™s coming up on April 18 talked about this. â€œThe way LA operates is not in the way of a European urban system of a top-down institution. Itâ€™s much more networked. This is an artistsâ€™ town, and there are a lot of small artist-run spaces that people feel more connected to personally than they do the museums.â€

In this climate, in that city, the Koons commission way looks too much like art as big shiny bling.

Photo of Jeff Koonsâ€™ Balloon Dog (Yellow) 1994-2000 taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Ken Applebaum

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