| The Farm works with the idea of an enclosure to metaphorically recast the courtyard of Concordia University's Fine Arts complex into a corral. During daylight hours the installation produces a continuous, amplified audio stream of sounds that are commonly associated with farms and farming life. The audio stream can be paused briefly by working the lever of a hand-operated water pump. The farm assumes that casual visitors to the courtyard might find the soundscape novel and entertaining, but students or staff who frequent the Fine Arts complex and its courtyard would soon tire of the sounds and be compelled to operate the water pump.
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