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Last Year at Marienbad redux 
Winter of Our Discontent 
Why Farm? 

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Of Other Spaces 
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Dewey Decimal Days 
Exact Imagination 
Taking Shelter 
Consumption Junction 
Shoot the Family 
Prophets of Deceit 

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The average age of the American farmer is 60. This fact is staggering in terms of the future of farming in the United States. The success of the family-operated farm is predicated on generations of knowledge, oral tradition, and innate skill. Over the course of the past sixty years, economic, social, technological and industrial factors have evidently coalesced and altered the face of farming. In addition to the reduced number of young adults staying on the farm, the current state of farming is affected by increasing costs of equipment and maintenance, changing environmental regulations, fluctuating government subsidies, expanding organic practices, widespread imports and experiments with alternative fuels. Farming has reached a critical crossroads.

Through a selection of works of art and texts, Why Farm? seeks to explore the rewards and challenges of farming to encourage an understanding of a profession and a livelihood upon which we rely but about which we know very little. While the exhibition does not seek intentionally to delve into the current trends of buying locally and the good-food movement, those topics are no less part of the issues faced by farmers today and are no less part of the reasons why they decide to farm, or not. 

Publication accompanies exhibition.

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