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Clunes Beat, Atholl Estate, Perthshire, Scotland
01/05/2002 – 31/07/2002
Publication marking the first five years of Marko Peljhan's Makrolab, focusing on its 2002 presence in the Scotland Highlands during the International Year of Mountains
Over three months during summer 2002 a crew of artists, scientists and media activists inhabited the Earthbound satellite of Makrolab in the Scottish highlands. This journal, designed by Paul Khera, includes an essay by author and theorist Kodwo Eshun, a text by Makrolab's creator, Marko Peljhan, and diaries, pictures, plans, project documentation and materials from many of the artists and scientists who were resident on Makrolab.
The Makrolab is a high-tech, art-science project, a temporary sustainable laboratory designed to support 4 – 6 artists and scientists working and living alongside each other in isolation for periods of up to 120 days. Within the Makrolab, researchers study telecommunications, environment, migration and weather patterns. Peljhan sees these multiple-dynamic global systems as the source of understanding how our planet functions on social, technological and natural levels.
This publication marks the first five years of Makrolab.
ORDER ONLINE from Cornerhouse Publications
Price £9.95
ISBN 9780953454624
Pages 56, softback, illustrated in colour and b&w
Dimensions 200mm x 220mm, weight 240g
Publishers & Sponsors
This book is co-published by The Arts Catalyst, Projekt Atol and the Tramway, 2002.
It is funded by the Scottish Arts Council and the Tramway. With thanks to the Atholl Estate and the contributors.
Makrolab is managed by Projekt Atol.