Roots of Compromise (ROC) began as an effort to grow food legally on a traffic island in Los Angeles. After six months of negotiating with the ‘powers that be’, ROC continues to navigate a legal route to public produce, while additionally exploring the tensions between ideology and pragmatism, radicality and acquiescence, that comprise the route to action in the public realm. The Chronology of Remarkable Events is a time line of our process and negotiation. Follow us on Twitter to get notified of updates to this project. https://twitter.com/rootscompromise
Roots of Compromise is part of the following exhibition:
The Gardens of LACMA
Fallen Fruit Presents EATLACMA, curated exhibition 2010
June 27 – November 7, 2010
Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art (LACMA)
Fallen Fruit Presents EATLACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. Drawing on the museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition, The Fruit of LACMA, assembles work in several media (painting, photography, and decorative arts) to examine the haunting persistence of fruit in art. This exhibition examines the symbolic and sociological aspects of fruit in art, from religious symbolism to embedded social messages. It includes a LACMA-commissioned piece from Fallen Fruit, a wall paper print of public fruit from one day in Silver Lake, an index of place and time, serving as a way to think about what grows, what’s eaten, and what goes to waste. The website for EATLACMA is participatory and integrated into the overall project, collecting videos, tweets, artist’s blogs and images. The Gardens of LACMA are six artist-designed gardens that push the boundaries of how a garden might function or look like: all of them break past questions of production and aesthetics to ask if a garden might serve as a forum for ideas, a container for contested meanings.