'Watch out for your children and your rats on the 26th and 27th of November 2010, as the clanking and creaking Miraculating Machine, comes trundling through the streets of Perth. This multi-wheeled machine is a printing press like no other: a battered tuba, old wheelchair parts and a lifelike salmon are among its notable integral parts. As it dances its strange dance through the streets of the city, it will issue individually stamped prints to those who are tempted.

To understand what the Miraculating Machine is, it is important to begin in the year 1210, when the provincial Scottish town was granted a charter by King William the Lion, and became the Royal Burgh of Perth. It is now exactly eight hundred years since that momentous event, and a grand ceremony has been called for.

Awarded a month-long residency by Perth and Kinross Council, artist Jessica Ramm has been commissioned to build a machine to investigate the eight hundred years of history and to bring them together in a spectacular display of mechanical wizardry.'


See www.miraculatingmachine.wordpress.com for more about the Miraculating Machine.