Martha

Four Channel Video Installation
7:47 minutes
2021
The passenger pigeon once populated our lands for many years. But within 50 years, humans had slaughtered them to near extinction. Martha, the last surviving passenger pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo a century ago. The plight of the passenger pigeon, like a fable, seems awfully close to our own self-destruction…

Text and concept by Zhouzhou & Zhiwan Cheung
Videographer & editor: Zhiwan Cheung
Installation: Zhiwan Cheung
Actor: Berlina Li
Styling: Zhouzhou
Space: Untitled Space

Other Works

  1. A Matter of Orientation
  2. What Kind of Ancestors Will We Become?
  3. Martha
  4. Everything Is A Decaying Lump of Now
  5. Goose and Crocodile
  6. Survivors of a Lying Species
  7. Disoriental Flavors (after Edward Said)
  8. The Immortal Gold Rabbit
  9. Welcome To Jungle Florida
  10. Colorbound
  11. Birdcage
  12. Colonial White
  13. China White
  14. Hanging Fruit
  15. The Impossibility of Home
  16. Reading the Rainbow
  17. Good Vibrations
  18. Intergalactic Immigration Office
  19. Vibrating Pink Egg
  20. Skinny Dipping
  21. White Lie
  22. Who’s Afraid of Chinatown Orange?
  23. Parental Guidance
  24. Movable Wave
  25. Portal
  26. Augmented Door
  27. Impermanent Infinity
  28. Expanded Field
  29. People Take Warning: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs
  30. Day of the Painter
  31. Oedipal Art Wrestling
  32. I’M RESIGNING, I’M HEREBY OFICIALLY TENDERING MY RESIGNATION AS AN ADULT!
  33. Longing for the stars, Longing for the moon
  34. All work and no play makes art a dull boy