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PUBLIC FRUIT MAPS & THE LONELIEST FRUIT IN THE WORLD ECHO & NARCISSUS

16 MAY 2013 30 MAY 2013
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY

Fallen Fruit presented a set of their Echo & Narcissus was an installation
Public Fruit Maps paired with their that explores this ancient myth as a
2010 video, “The Loneliest Fruit in metaphor for the interaction between
the World.” The maps are one of the two individuals who cannot communicate.
collaboration’s signature projects: An interactive visual projection on
mapping all the fruit trees that grow water and multi-channel soundtrack
in or over public space, in of Echo’s voice used counterpoint to
neighborhoods around the world to produce a series of visual and sonic
which they are invited. relationships.

The maps are hand-drawn and distributed As one looked into the water one would
free of copyright—they serve as guides see an image of their own face gradually
for foraging, but more importantly as materializing, dematerializing,
visionary representations of what we disappearing, then reappearing once
hope to see: alternative urban spaces again. Echo’s voice permeates the space,
that engender new forms of sharing and moving throughout the gallery creating a
thereby create new public experiences. haunting affect.

“The Loneliest Fruit in the World” Echo & Narcissus is directed and
addresses a different kind of public produced by artist/curator David
fruit, berries that grow wild in Familian, who is artistic director of
the Arctic. The lingonberry, the the Beall Center for Art + Technology
salmonberry and the blueberry grow at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts
without any human involvement, and for in UC Irvine. His collaborating team
a few short weeks become the site of included actor Marie Chambers (voice
intense activity as people flock to of Echo), media artist Eric Parren
pick them on all public land. Shot in a (programmer of the interactive elements)
residency in Tromsø, Norway, 200 miles and author Terry Wolverton (writer of
above the Arctic Circle, the video the Echo’s monologue).
follows a group of Norwegians through
a beautiful, spare landscape; while
picking, they negotiate the relation
between solitude, gleaning and company.

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