What Katie Paterson has said about Vatnajökull

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 23, 2026

Katie Paterson, Scottish artist whose work explores deep and cosmic time, has been quoted on Vatnajökull once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on October 23, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • 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

Episodes

  • How we experience time

    TED 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.

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