The Vanishing Oceans Project

NEWS! FEBRUARY 2018! We have been longlisted for The Universal Sea Festival! Please click the link and vote for The Vanishing Oceans Project!

http://universal-sea.org/top-100-artworks?contest=photo-detail&photo_id=1489

This project is supported in part by a space grant from chashama

April 13-April 30, 266 W. 37th St, NYC

On view all day, every day from the street.

Last open hours! Thursday 4/28 3-7pm

Thanks to Marc O. Lammers & Polyanna Fisher-Pool of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology for the generous donation of recorded sounds used in soundscape.

The Vanishing Oceans Project is a collaboration between Linda Byrne’s visuals and Maggie Dubris’s soundscape. It combines two sculptural works with an original sound piece and lights into a haunting vista of oceanic decimation. "Coral Reef" uses recycled plastic 6-pack rings as its main component. The very plastics that are polluting our oceans become the reef itself, its translucent ghostly quality mimicking a dead coral reef drained of its vibrant colors. "Skeleton Ships" consists of ship hulls formed to resemble the rib-like bones of skeletons. The sound component melds traditionally “beautiful” sounds like whale calls and sailing songs with sounds that are killing the ocean; engines, underwater construction, and sonar, heard from an undersea vantage point. When people enter the Vanishing Ocean Project, they are plunged into the aural and visual landscape of a dying world. Our myths, our relationship with the sea, and the sea creatures themselves become a hypnotic elegy.