Katie Paterson: Incense Ceremony at the Living Art Museum

In connection with the World Weather
Network an incense ceremony instigated by Scottish artist Katie Paterson
will take place in The Living Art Museum this Saturday September 3 at 15:00.

The incense ceremony To Burn, Forest, Fire consists of the scent of the first
forest on our planet 385 million years ago and the scent of the last forest during
our climate crisis. These scents were transformed into incense and burned at several
different venues in Helsinki in September 2021.

Now the incense ceremony will take
place across the world, which the World Weather Network participants will organise
in dialogue with IHME Helsinki which nominated Katie Paterson as their creative representative in
the network.

The event is organized by The Icelandic Art Center
in collaboration with The Living Art Museum.

To learn more about the ceremony, visit Katie Paterson’s
website:

https://katiepaterson.org/artwork/to-burn-forest-fire/

In total 27 arts organisations across the world make
up the World Weather Network, a ground-breaking constellation of ‘weather stations’
located across the world in oceans, deserts, mountains, farmland, rainforests, observatories,
lighthouses and cities.

From June 21 2022 to June 21 2023,
artists, writers and communities will share observations, stories, reflections and
images about their local weather, creating an archipelago of voices and viewpoints.
Engaging climate scientists and environmentalists, the World Weather Network brings
together diverse world views and different ways of understanding the weather across
multiple localities and languages.

Einar Falur Ingólfsson is working
in Iceland’s weather station as artist in residence in Library of Water in Stykkishólmur
and has among other projects been recording a yearlong visual weather-diary Einar
Falur publishes the diary every week on Instagram, @DailyWeatherReports.