Fair Secrets (2018) unfolded in collaboration with the Agassiz Fall Fair and Corn Festival, as part of Far Afield’s Touchstones: Deep Time in the Near Future. Domestic, horticultural and agricultural production is steeped in tacit, embedded knowledge, and success in these endeavours is often the result of decades, or even centuries-long relationships with materials, matter, and living organisms. At the 2018 festival, Fair Secrets invited participation from the local community by soliciting an assortment of secrets—from prized recipes to personal confessions. Through anonymous contributions, Fair Secrets created a collective representation of some of the knowledge harboured within the Agassiz region.

The shared secrets were transformed into a 50 page publication and released as a small limited edition.

Photos:

Denis Gutiérrez-Ogrinc

Caitlin Chaisson

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This project was part of Far Afield’s Touchstones: Deep Time in the Near Future