Puddle Observers: Eco-Art & Performances for Hurricane Helene Relief

You’re invited to a participatory experience highlighting local eco-artists in support of communities affected by Hurricane Helene.

➢ Where: ArtYard Kingston – 80 Smith Ave, Kingston NY
➢ When: Sunday – October 20, 2024; 3-7:30 PM
➢ Rain Date: Tuesday – October 22, 2024; 3-7:30 PM

ArtPort Kingston will host a day of environmental art, performance, music and more, dedicated to themes of environmentalism and climate resilience. Puddle Observers is a traveling sound installation and participatory experience of collaborative imagination. Multidisciplinary artists Becca Rodriguez and Cal Fish will share performances that incorporate their participatory artworks and archiving practices. The two self-identified “flute faeries” will adopt electronic hardware to share songs and improvisations, creating ambient puddles of sound and poetry. This event marks the Kingston stop on the artists’ greater Puddle Observers tour, in which places and communities are treated with the metaphor of a puddle–ephemeral habitats breeding new life and co-evolution. Each event in the tour, nestled between eco-art residencies, calls on local artists to share sound performance and art objects in market-like settings.

Featured performances by Cal Fish, Leather Projection, z.No Scott, and others, and artworks by OGA, Camille Modesto, John Stowe, John DeSousa, Rebecca Rodriguez, Cal Fish, and others TBA.

The one-day event will take place at ArtPort Kingston’s newest cultural courtyard–ArtYard Kingston–located in Kingston’s midtown neighborhood at 80 Smith Avenue. This event is part of ArtPort Kingston’s 2024 ArtStream public exhibition program, which is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.