MOLE ANTONELLIANA
CineVR1 & CineVR2
3-7 JUNE
SUNDAY 7 JUNE
CINEMA MASSIMO
SALA 2
17:00
Meeting with Lena Herzog
Last Whispers (30’)
An experiential work about extinct languages and languages at risk of extinction. A visceral, sensorial immersion in which sound overlays recordings of dialogues, recitatives, exclamations, songs, and funeral rituals, interwoven with sounds from nature, spatial radio frequencies, and gravitational waves of supernovas recorded by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The audience is immersed in a choral poetic invocation of “final whispers” in which landscapes and symbols devoid of human figures are accompanied by voices that echo from deep space and are perceived as being real. The work is part of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) established by the UN Assembly General and UNESCO.
Any War Any Enemy (17’)
An immersive work built in various artistic phases over a period of two years. The VR version concluding the creative process was presented in October 2024.
A method to annihilate humanity was created and perfected several times over. On the verge of destruction, the world has been industrialized, financialized, and mythicized, while everything is based on the logic of hate, thus making peace impossible and war inevitable.
Any War Any Enemy represents both any given war and the “final” war. Attention is directed to the human beings who suffer the consequences, i.e., us in the next global war. The work is an immersive poem against war: a requiem anticipating a lost world of self-destruction, at present “dilated” in a series of mise en scene that culminate in a catastrophic ending.
