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Katie Paterson at IHME Helsinki

To Burn, Forest, Fire

Helsinki, Finland

September 2021

Katie Paterson, To Burn, Forest, Fire, 2021. Commissioned by IHME Helsinki, 2021. Photo by Veikko Somerpuro.

Katie Paterson, To Burn, Forest, Fire, 2021. Commissioned by IHME Helsinki, 2021. Photo by Veikko Somerpuro.

Press Release

For the 2021 IHME Helsinki Commission, artist Katie Paterson created To Burn, Forest, Fire, an immersive, scent-based artwork to take place across the city of Helsinki in September 2021. 

To Burn, Forest, Fire will consist of the scent of the first-ever forest on earth and the scent of the last forest of the age of climate crisis, made into incense and then burned across a variety of sites around the city of Helsinki in 1-30 September, 2021.

In connection to the art work there is a booklet published to present the scientific research behind the definitions of the forests and the scents. Essay in the booklet is written by Professor David Haskell.

 

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