Language as an Organism: Natalia Papaeva (losing your mother tongue)

In this second episode of Language as an Organism, Yun & Rae talk to performance artist Natalia Papaeva about her work Yokhor, in which she sings the only two lines she remembers from her favourite song in her mother tongue Buryat. Natalia answers questions from the audience and discusses losing a language, gaining new ones, layers of repetition, performing grief and more. You can see the trailer of Yokhor here:  https://vimeo.com/368295268 More work from Natalia: https://cargocollective.com/natashapapaeva Sources for learning Buryat: podcast Sagaan bulag:http://sagaanbulag.com/ Buryat researcher Agnieska Matkowska insta: @agamatkowska Buryat language activist: Ershena Dondokova insta: @era_miracle Educational insta account: @helysh_malysh Buryat poet: Elbeg  Zandraev @elbeguu Hosted by Yun Lee and Rae Parnell Produced by Hans Poel Music by Sro - Bring Back and Chad Crouch - Algorithms