Katie Paterson
Katie Paterson’s artistic practice is multi-disciplinary, cross-medium, and conceptually driven, often exploring landscape by means of technology, and connectivity by way of moonlight, lightning, melting glaciers, and dead stars. Paterson’s Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon), transmitted Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back. The resulting transmission, with its missing “moon-altered” bits and all, was then translated into a musical score and played back on an automated Disklavier piano.
The work that launched her career in 2007 was Vatnajökull (the sound of). Paterson inserted a microphone deep within the melting Icelandic ice sheet, and over ten thousand people from 47 countries called a mobile number, which was mounted in neon on the gallery wall, to hear the sound of the glacier melting. All the Dead Stars is a large map documenting all the dead stars that have been observed and recorded by humankind.
Her latest project, Streetlight Storm, features 20 lamps on the pier in Kent’s Deal. The lamps flicker in time with lightning storms as they happen everywhere from the North Pole to North Africa – the brighter they are, the nearer the storm. She has recently exhibited at Turner Contemporary, Modern Art Oxford, Tate Britain, The Power Plant, Toronto, and PERFORMA 09, New York.
The work that launched her career in 2007 was Vatnajökull (the sound of). Paterson inserted a microphone deep within the melting Icelandic ice sheet, and over ten thousand people from 47 countries called a mobile number, which was mounted in neon on the gallery wall, to hear the sound of the glacier melting. All the Dead Stars is a large map documenting all the dead stars that have been observed and recorded by humankind.
Her latest project, Streetlight Storm, features 20 lamps on the pier in Kent’s Deal. The lamps flicker in time with lightning storms as they happen everywhere from the North Pole to North Africa – the brighter they are, the nearer the storm. She has recently exhibited at Turner Contemporary, Modern Art Oxford, Tate Britain, The Power Plant, Toronto, and PERFORMA 09, New York.
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