LABORATORY SERIES. No.12. James Watt’s attic workshop. Locked and untouched after his death in 1819, the workshop was described by biographer JP Muirhead as an industrial shrine to the Steam Engineer, “where no profane hand had been allowed to violate the sanctities of the magical retreat.” Moved piece by piece from his home in Heathfield, the 20 ft x 15 ft workshop, which contains over 8,430 objects, now sits in its preserved state in the Science Museum in London. Photo: Wikipedia.
LABORATORY SERIES. No.07. Installation view of Roxy Paine’s Control Room at Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St, 2013. Steel, wood, automotive paint, glass, 12' 5" x 18' 2 3/8" x 13' 7." Part power plant, part space-race agency, part recording studio, Control Room’s dashboard is an index of different operating and monitoring devices. It is timeless, devoid of a human operator and frozen as a diorama in the gallery space. Photo Courtesy of Joseph Rynkiewicz & Kavi Gupta Chicago | Berlin.
