Nov 3, 2014 1 min read

Nov. 6-Dec. 6

‘Moving Targets’ art installation

A collaborative art installation at Duquesne University, “Moving Targets,” by Steffi Domike and Ann Rosenthal with Ruth Fauman Fichman, combines environmental history and the artists’ genealogy to connect the dots between the extinction of the passenger pigeon and the flight of Jewish families from the Ukraine.

The interplay of mixed media interdisciplinary artworks asks who or what is viewed as expendable and the impact of the loss on what remains. The installation correlates the extermination of passenger pigeons 100 years ago with attempts to annihilate Ukrainian Jews around the turn of the 20th century and examines the ethics of both. A three-part series on campus, free and open to the public, is slated for Nov. 6-Dec. 6.

For a complete listing of events, visit www.passengerpigeonpittsburgh.org.