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Strange Fruit (from a Wandering Tree) is a nomadic installation consisting of a 12 foot tall tree made of copper tubing from whose branches hang 15x15 cm photographic objects that celebrate individual interpretations of the expression "Strange Fruit."

The visual images focus directly upon contemporary connotations of this expression.  Indirectly, they effectively reflect the way in which the meaning of the phrase - and the brutal cynicism which it initially embodied in 1936 - has changed dramatically over the past 70 years.

During August and September 2010, this nomadic installation will "wander" through upstate New York, New York City, Austria, northern Italy, Switzerland and southern Germany.  This project, a cooperative production between the Academy for Applied Photography Graz (Austria) and the artist collective The Ironlung Union, is sponsored in part by Gänsweider Metalltechnik and consulting-lifestyle.com.

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