Katie Paterson
Scottish artist whose work explores deep and cosmic time
Katie Paterson (Scottish artist whose work explores deep and cosmic time) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Deep time, Earth–Moon–Earth (Paterson artwork), Climate change.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Deep time
Paterson says she finds human smallness on the cosmic clock comforting and grounding rather than upsetting.
“But I find that quite comforting. I kind of find it gives me some rootedness to feel like here we are part of this enormous expanse of time”
TED Radio Hour: How we experience time (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 11:30
Earth–Moon–Earth (Paterson artwork)
Paterson explains that the moon's surface and conditions caused some notes of the sonata to be lost, so the returned piece contains gaps.
“because of the lunar surface and the weather and the shadows and the moon, not all of the notes came back”
TED Radio Hour: How we experience time (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 5:41
Climate change
Paterson notes that glacier melting has sped up exponentially and that Iceland has declared its first glacier dead.
“But now it's exponentially speeded up. I mean, sadly, it's already in Iceland. They've declared their first glacier totally dead”
TED Radio Hour: How we experience time (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 4:02
Vatnajökull
Paterson says her live phone line to the glacier was meant to collapse the distance between human time and the ancient, rapidly melting glacier.
“it kind of collapsed the distance in the time between us and our human earthly time and this ancient melting, thawing glacier”
TED Radio Hour: How we experience time (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:17
Appearances
How we experience timeTED Radio Hour · Oct 23, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi explores how humans experience time with artist Katie Paterson, neuroscientist Irena Arslanova, conductor Robert Franz, and psychologist Philip Zimbardo.
Often appears with
- Manoush Zomorodi · 1 shared episode
- Irena Arslanova · 1 shared episode
- Robert Franz · 1 shared episode
- Philip Zimbardo · 1 shared episode