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Iconic Industries Exhibition, Factory Site Visit and Site Responsive Performance

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posted on 2017-08-01, 00:00 authored by Merinda KellyMerinda Kelly
Iconic Industries Exhibition, Factory Site Visit and Site Responsive Performance

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Location

National Wool Museum

Start date

2017-08-23

End date

2017-08-23

Language

eng

Research statement

Background This NTRO sits with/in the overarching terrain of contemporary art, public art and, more specifically, the fields of socially engaged art and post-human pedagogy. It set out to research the burgeoning vacancy of factories and other urban spaces emerging in the Geelong Industrial precinct and CBD, whilst also considering how rapid changes in the city might be working to form, shape and re/form/re-cast Geelong’s identity. Examining the modular nature of the old Geelong red brick’, I investigated its beginnings from extraction to production and construction. Throughout the processes of colonization, industrialization and de-/re-industrialization, these individual units have worked collaboratively, forming chimney stacks, factories, shops, Institutions and grand residences for wealthy settlers. At the whim of developers, wrecking balls can destroy iconic structures in a matter of minutes, rendering the brick a transient unit tangled up in time. Contribution This research illuminates the generative potentialities of ‘undoing time’ (Barad:2017) as bricks materialize, mobilize, assemble, disperse and recirculate, ever entwined with/in colonial practices of extraction and spatial expansion. Throughout the open factory studio intervention and public exhibition at National Wool Museum, issues of public concern, including rapid urban transformation, gentrification and the re-branding of the city, emerged as significance to the citizenry. Significance The project launch was conducted by the Minister for the Arts and the open studio and exhibition featured on SBS and other media platforms. The project was also captured in a hard copy book titled ‘Iconic Industry: Exploring the Industrial Built Fabric of Geelong.

Publication classification

J2 Minor original creative work

Recognition, awards & prizes

Funding Creative Arts Victoria and COGG $4500

Event

Iconic Industries. Exhibition (2017 : Geelong, Victoria)

Publisher

National Wool Museum

Place of publication

Geelong, Vic.

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    130201 Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy3901 Curriculum and pedagogy

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