The space was designed by Kirsha Kaechele, the wife of Mona founder David Walsh, and inspired the discrimination faced by women in public places.
Hobart’s popular Museum of Old and New Art could be forced to shut down a women’s-only Ladies Lounge created by Kirsha Kaechele, the wife of the museum founder David Walsh, if an anti-discrimination case launched by a male lawyer is successful.
“I visited Mona, paid $35, on the expectation that I would have access to the museum, and I was quite surprised when I was told that I would not be able to see one exhibition, the Ladies Lounge,” Mr Lau told the hearing. “Anyone who buys a ticket would expect a fair provision of goods and services.” A courtroom sketch of David Lau v Kirsha Kaechele of Museum of Old and New Art . Credit: Arjan KokScott argued that by being denied access to the Ladies Lounge, men were indeed experiencing the work and its intent – they were not missing out.
When deputy president Grueber acknowledged that he was struggling to understand the “opportunity” being presented by the Ladies Lounge, Kaechele replied: “The opportunity to gather in peace as women without men, the opportunity to relish the exclusion of men, it’s only because we don’t hold power that we can do this … which gives the work its humour, if not it would be cruel.”
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