Starting in the Adirondack Mountains and flowing to the south to the port of New York, the iconic Hudson River extends 315 miles through picturesque valleys and creative cities. It is also a migration route for countless fish species, from steur and bass to herring and eel, which go upstream every year to spawn. Nourishing with habitat destruction due to pollution and the effects of the climate crisis, the survival of these fish is becoming increasingly in danger. Fortunately, art and activism have a way to reveal these urgent problems and at the same time bridge local communities.
Last weekend the inaugural fish migration marked -celebration organized by River keeperAn outfit dedicated to protecting and advocating for the health of the river basin of the Hudson River. ONMME in the midst of the festivities were a series of large -scale dolls by artist Greg Corbinopart of his current sculpture-meets-performance series, Mumble.
Corbino designed a golden sturgeon of life to decorate a sailing ship that led a fleet of Chelsea Pier in New York City to Croton-On-Hudson, home of Hudson River Music Festival. Corbinos Papier-Maché Mariene beings, ranging from oysters and sturgeon to a sea horse and a whale, performed their own migration, parade along the riverbank in both locations.
The artist describes the collective performance as a “doll poem of the city and sea” and creates every work of plastic waste that he removes from Waterways and beaches from New York City. Through partnerships with events such as the Fish Migration Celebration and New York City’s River Festival, he wants to emphasize the impact of climate change and to increase the consciousness of increasing plastic pollution in our oceans.
See more of Corbino’s work His site.
