“Seeking the Source” Walking Experience, March 19, 2023

Join Hey There Kapplow for a walking experience connected to the project Seeking the Source, currently on view at the Somerville Museum as part of the exhibition Waterlines, curated by Arlinda Shtuni. Ticket for the event are available here.

The event begins at the museum with a discussion about the work on display, and then explores the museum's immediate neighborhood in silence, paying acute attention to how intuition offers guidance about when to walk, when to pause, and how to keep the group together. The event will close with reflections from the experience.

ADMISSION: $10/person; Somerville Museum active members free (with code MEMBER); no charge for children under 12 years old. Admission to this event also includes exhibition admission.

NOTES ABOUT EVENT: This event is rain or shine, please dress accordingly. Good walking shoes, water bottle, sunscreen, hat, and umbrellas are recommended depending on the weather. The walk will last about an hour.

PARKING: The Somerville Museum has no dedicated parking spots. Please note visitor parking spots on Westwood Road, Central Street, and Highland Ave. Visit our website for more information.

ACCESSIBILITY: The Somerville Museum is now ADA compliant. For more information contact us at info@somervillemuseum.org.

Curated by Community Curator, Arlinda Shtuni, Waterlines explores Somerville’s origins, urban expansion, and ever-changing ecology through stories about water.

Seeking the Source is a project by the artist Hey There Kapplow, commissioned for the exhibition Waterlines at the Somerville Museum, in Somerville MA (USA) from December 2022 - March 2023. It uses water as a metaphor for intuition, and the tenacious persistence of the practice of dowsing in the modern world as a symbol of our capacity to retain and nurture intuitive understanding even while we rely on technologies and enlightenment-age logics for our day to day operations in a way that would seem to make intuition obsolete.

The exhibition hosts a collection of ‘objects with soundtracks’ which evolved out of an interest in the contemporary coexistence of the folk-practice of dowsing (water divining) alongside more modern methods of detecting and assessing the presence of water underground.

The development of Seeking the Source has been supported by The Somerville Museum, Flux Factory, ARoS Museum, Useful Art for Communities, and USF Bergen.