CURRENTS: A Multimedia Exhibition

Ten prominent local artists expose the hidden mysteries of the raw architecture and underground corridors beneath the historic Fairmount Water Works. Site-specific artworks immerse visitors in the voices of the river and the history and ecology of the Water Works and its environs. Trickling harmonic notes accompany ephemeral video projections while haunting multi-media installations connect colonial times to both the real present and an imagined future 250 years ahead. The artists—Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck, Julianna Foster, Carolyn Healy and John Phillips, Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, Eugene Lew, Martha McDonald, and Taji Ra'oof Nahl—work site-specifically, reading the Water Works as a temporal instrument. Perched just above the Schuylkill River, their installations treat the river itself as a timeline, measuring both what was and what might be.