Podcast THE TALKING CURE: Conversation with Jed Wheeler.

Peak Performances' Executive Director Jed Wheeler, filmmaker Lena Herzog’s and members of the audience share their first impressions after Herzog's immersive oratorio, Last Whispers, presented at the Alexander Kasser Theatre in Montclair State University.

Trained in linguistics and philosophy, Lena Herzog is a multimedia artist whose work has been exhibited around the world. Last Whispers, an immersive cinematic experience dedicated to vanishing languages, is the result of Herzog’s ongoing interest in indigenous dialects, which are disappearing at an astonishing rate. By 2050, half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken around the world will fall silent. In Herzog’s oratorio, the historical recordings of more than 40 endangered or lost languages come alive among the echoes of collapsing stars in a work The New Yorker critic Alex Ross calls “haunting and singular.”

More: https://www.peakperfs.org/event/last-whispers/2019-10-17/

Produced by Peak Performances and The Office of Arts and Cultural Programing at Montclair State University

Artistic Director, Jedediah Wheeler

Producer, Natalie Marx

Recorded on October 17, 2019 at WMSC Radio

Photo of Lena Herzog: Chantal Anderson for The New York Times

Still of map from Last Whispers