Ancient Darkness TV

Katie Paterson

• Manhattan Neighborhood Network
• Sunday, November 22 11:59pm

Working with astronomers from the Mount Kea Volcano telescope, Katie Paterson will transmit an image of ‘ancient darkness’ from deep space on television station MNN, inviting a New York audience to stare into the void and look back in time. Broadcast for one minute, the image will reveal darkness from the furthest point of the observed universe, 13.2 billion years ago, shortly after the Big Bang, and before Earth existed, when stars, galaxies and the first light began to form.

Broadcast on all four MNN channels at the same time.  Nov 22 at 11:59pm.

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Katie Paterson (born in Glasgow in 1981, the artist lives and works in London) is a winner of the prestigious Darwin Award this year in acknowledgment of her adventurous work, which include Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon), the transmission of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back; Vatnajökull (the sound of), a live phone line to an Icelandic glacier; and All the Dead Stars, a large map documenting the locations of 27,000 dead stars. She has recently exhibited at Modern Art Oxford, Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, Universal Code, Powerplant, Toronto, (2009).

Commissioned by Performa. Co-presented by Performa and Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Curated by Tairone Bastien with Defne Ayas.  Supported by the British Council Darwin Now awards. Special thanks to Professor Richard Ellis and W.M. Keck Observatory. Part of Performa TV on MNN.

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