Artist Talk: Katie Paterson
Wednesday 17 November 2010
Katie Paterson’s artistic practice is cross-medium, multi-disciplinary, and conceptually driven, with emphasis on nature, ecology, geology and cosmology. Recent artworks include Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon), 2007 which involved the transmission of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back; Vatnajökull (the sound of), 2007-8 a live phone line to an Icelandic glacier; and All the Dead Stars, 2009 a large map documenting the locations of 27,000 dead stars (all known to humanity).
Paterson graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2007, and has since participated in exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford, the Power Plant, Toronto, PERFORMA 09, New York, Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, and Haunch of Venison, London. She currently holds a John Florent Stone fellowship at Edinburgh College of Art, and is Artist in Residence in the Astrophysics Group, UCL.
Talk supported by the MA programme, University College Falmouth & ProjectBase
