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"Gender, class, race, culture and religion are all categories used to exclude
people in ways that privileged people will never experience. This exclusion can
be as blatant as a gang of masked people performing the Nazi salute, or as
subtle as an upper-middle-class golf club quietly binning membership
applications from Jews or Muslims.
The question of how we redress these exclusions is once again in the news
because of a legal case taken up against Hobart’s contemporary art gallery,
MONA. The anti-discrimination case has been launched on the basis that it
contains a women-only
Ladies Lounge art installation created by Kirsha
Kaechle, an artist who is also married to the museum’s founder, David Walsh.
Jason Lau brought the complaint because he had been denied access to the space,
which features works by Pablo Picasso and Sidney Nolan, on account of his
gender. Kaechle said she is “delighted” the anti-discrimination complaint has
ended up in Tasmania’s Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
“The men are experiencing
Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the
artwork,” she said.
“OK, they experience the artwork differently than women, but men are certainly
experiencing the artwork as it’s intended.”
Whatever decision the tribunal hands down, these recent events remind us that
women still struggle to claim a small slice of the pie men have claimed for
centuries."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
