Weekend Member Mornings for Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard
June 29–30, 2024
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The Harrisons, Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard, 1972–73 (installation view, Art Gallery at California State University, Fullerton). Citrus trees, soil, wood, and lights, dimensions variable. © Helen and Newton Harrison Family Trust. Courtesy Various Small Fires, Los Angeles/Dallas/Seoul
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Floor 8
Open to all members
Saturday, June 29, 9:30–10:30 am
Sunday, June 30, 9:30–10:30 am
Start your day at the Whitney and enjoy special access to Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard before general admission begins during the show’s first weekend on view.
Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard marks the first standalone museum presentation of the fully realized indoor citrus grove conceived and designed in 1972 by artists Helen Mayer Harrison (1927–2018) and Newton Harrison (1932–2022). This project explores the need for a productive and sustainable food system in an imagined future where natural farming practices are obsolete. Stretching across the Whitney’s eighth-floor gallery, this installation of eighteen live citrus trees, rooted in self-contained planters with individual lighting systems, reflects a survivalist alternative in the face of environmental decline.