#mona tasmania

[organised-disaster]

uhhh cw nudity (not really its just casts of lady parts and most of them are really out of focus but just to be on the safe side ig)

[you-need-not-apply]

LISTEN UP: A LADIES LOUNGE IS BEING REMOVED DUE TO "SEXISM"

TERFS DNI - I'm trans

The Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is a popular place in the state with free entry for TAS residents. But the ladies lounge is one of the best places inside. It seeks to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors, making men feel the exclusion experienced by women for thousands of years.

However, it is now being removed due to discrimination against "people who do not identify as ladies", and as someone who doesn't ID as a women (most of the time) FINE BY ME! Keep me out when I ID as a man. A New South Wales man (Jason Lau) took legal action against Mona, claiming that being denied entry into the Ladies Lounge when he visited the museum last April due to his gender was against the  Tasmanian Anti Discrimination Act (1998) 

HE DOES NOT EVEN LIVE IN THE SAME STATE

Artist Kirsha Kaechele and MONA director David Walsh

Artist Kirsha Kaechele has said:

"The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork"

Why is it being banned?

The Tasmanian Anti Discrimination Act (1998) states that you are not allowed to treat someone differently based on an attribute or characteristic like, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or disability. source1

But there are exceptions to this rule.

"A person may discriminate against another person in any program, plan or arrangement designed to promote equal opportunity for a group of people who are disadvantaged or have a special need because of a prescribed attribute," the Act states.

Things like women-only gyms are for women to feel safe, promoting equal opportunity, and men's sheds are to promote men's mental health. source2

Mona's Ladies Lounge, however, is not a club and has no membership.

The judgment has ordered Mona to allow men to access the installation within 28 days.

[coochiequeens]

Men can't let women have anything for ourselves

An Australian museum has been ordered to allow men into a women's-only exhibit, following a high-stakes court case over the matter.

The Ladies Lounge at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) sought to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors.

After being denied entry, one filed a gender discrimination lawsuit, which he won on Tuesday.

"We are deeply disappointed by this decision," a Mona representative said.

The velvet-clad lounge - which contains some of the museum's most-acclaimed works, from Picasso to Sidney Nolan - has been open since 2020.

It was designed to take the concept of an old Australian pub - a space which largely excluded women until 1965 - and turn it on its head, offering champagne and five-star service to female attendees, while refusing men at the door.

Jason Lau, a New South Wales resident who visited Mona in April of last year, was one such male.

Representing himself throughout the case, he argued that the museum had violated the state's anti-discrimination act by failing to provide "a fair provision of goods and services in line with the law" to him and other ticket holders who didn't identify as female.

The museum had responded by claiming the rejection Mr Lau had felt was part of the artwork, and that the law in Tasmania allowed for discrimination if it was "designed to promote equal opportunity" for a group of people who had been historically disadvantaged.

In his ruling, Richard Grueber dismissed the argument - finding that it was "not apparent" how preventing men from experiencing the famous artworks held within the Ladies Lounge achieved that goal.

Throughout the case, the museum's supporters, including artist Kirsha Kaechele - who created the work - had used the courtroom as a space for performance art, wearing matching navy suits and engaging in synchronised movements.

Mr Grueber said that while the behaviour of the women hadn't disrupted the hearing, it was "inappropriate, discourteous and disrespectful, and at worst contumelious and contemptuous".

His decision to allow "persons who do not identify as ladies" to access the exhibit will come into effect in 28 days.

Ms Kaechele previously told the BBC the case had felt like her artwork was coming to life and signalled she would fight it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

But she also noted that having the Ladies Lounge shut down could help drive home its intended message.

"If you were just looking at it from an aesthetic standpoint, being forced to close would be pretty powerful."

A spokesperson for Mona said the museum would "take some time to absorb the result" and consider its options.

[dougwallen]

Courtney Barnett feature for Broadsheet

[foundationsofd3cay]

I FUCKING HATE MEN WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE LITERALLY PROVING MY POINT

[thescreamingwall]

Some photos through the year - go here: https://thescreamingwall.com/2023/12/07/photos-through-the-year/ - for the full lot

[msmaldesigns]

Photography is just one of the many skills I have.

[ninjakittens]

My favourite rich person is the guy who won his fortune through gambling, and used it to open a wacky underground art museum full of shit that makes my parent's stuffy old friends cranky.

[triumph-of-adaptation]

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Yes! 👏🏽 This bitch did not hold back! Long live MONA!

A Supreme Court judge has overruled the decision that forced Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) to shut down Ladies Lounge, an exhibit exclusively for women earlier this year. The curator celebrated saying "[the men] may appeal, but they aren't appealing to me".

[loser-user-noaccuser]

No bc if MONA goes through with this decision that the courts have made to open up a female only arts exhibit JUST BECAUSE A FUCKING MAN GOT PISSED OFF THAT HE WASNT ALLOWED IN i am going to leave the state

[george-the-good]

The Duke of York plants an oak tree during his stay at Mona Vale in Tasmania, Australia, April 1927.

With him are his host, Mr Eustace Cameron (left) and Equerry, Lieutenant-Commander Colin Buist.

The tree had grown from an acorn which had dropped from the large oak which was planted by the Duke of Edinburgh when he visited Mona Vale in 1868.

[upthewitchypunx]

This is the 3rd thing I had not thought of, thank you.

Last night on the Max train home from seeing Depeche Mode there was this seat that had a pile of Corn Flakes in it.

In my head, it's either an art installation or a wizard got mad and turned someone into a pile of Corn Flakes.

[platinumrest]

[mrwhitehaven]

Trip no.7, Tasmania, 2021. MONA.

[lesb0]

lol I love her! a bad forgery is still better than a real picasso 😂

[limnophyton]

??/??/2018 - digital camera

@ Mona museum Tasmania