A lawyer for Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) argued in court that its controversial 'Ladies Lounge' installation, designed to highlight gender inequality, is not discriminatory despite a tribunal ruling ordering it to admit men. The artist behind the lounge, Kirsha Kaechele, maintains that the artwork encourages reflection on women's experiences.
Men and women may be recognised as equal under Australian law, but women still suffer unequal opportunity on a daily basis, a lawyer for Hobart’s Museum of Old and Newby denying men entry to its Ladies Lounge installation, created by the artist Kirsha Kaechele, who is also the wife of the museum’s owner, David Walsh.
“A flipped universe … it invites the participant to think about that,” Scott told the court during an appeal hearing on Tuesday. Barns said there was no dispute about the discrimination faced by women but the tribunal was open to find the lounge itself was discriminatory. They restricted their choreography to the street outside the supreme court, after previously coming under fire from the tribunal’s deputy president Richard Grueber, who described the women’s synchronised movements during the April hearing as “inappropriate, discourteous and disrespectful, and at worst contumelious and contemptuous”.
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