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Assembled Lines — Robbie Rowlands, Cut and reconfigured found object from Ford Factory. Image courtesy of the artist

Platform Arts

Artist Robbie Rowlands & Writer Yasmin Mobayad

Assembled Lines

Assembled Lines brings together a sculptural installation and essay response to the decommissioning of the Geelong Ford Factory. Through careful auction strategies, artist Robbie Rowlands procured equipment including trolleys, stairs, lockers, cabinets and tool boxes with unique and obvious signs of their history in use, with a number of the objects having already undergone sculptural intervention.

Yasmin Mobayad’s research and poetic writings concentrate on the effects of de-industrialisation for the city of Geelong, and the erasure of collective identity associated with once-booming industrial sites such as Ford. Yasmin parallels the sculptural works with a creative essay that narrates industrial trauma through poetic reflection, reimagining industry and the community identity attached to the abandoned industrial artifacts.

12 October—15 November

Platform Arts

60 Little Malop St, Geelong VIC 3220, Australia

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