This exhibition looks to the utopian imagination of the back-to-the-land movement, considering both its ambitions and its failures, to see what we might recuperate from this history almost forty years later. The exhibition consists of documentary photographs of back-to-the-land families from western Cape Breton Island that were taken throughout the 1970s by George Thomas, a reading room housing The Whole Earth Catalog Library and a sculptural installation by Cape Breton-born artist and second-generation back-to-the-lander, Fenn Martin.
Co-presented by Cape Breton University Art Gallery (Sydney, NS) and Confederation Centre of the Arts (Charlottetown, PEI). This exhibition runs until August 15, 2014.