Tasmania's Supreme Court ruled in favor of the 'Ladies Lounge' exhibit at the Museum of Old and New Art, overturning a lower tribunal's decision that deemed it discriminatory. The court argued that the installation promotes equal opportunity by highlighting the disadvantages women face in society.
Kirsha Kaechele , curator of the Ladies Lounge exhibit at Tasmania 's Museum of Old and New Art, on Friday outside the supreme court in Hobart, where a ruling on a discrimination case was successfully overturned on appeal. Kirsha Kaechele , curator of the Ladies Lounge exhibit at Tasmania 's Museum of Old and New Art, on Friday outside the supreme court in Hobart, where a ruling on a discrimination case was successfully overturned on appeal.
The tribunal had made several errors of fact and law, including the mischaracterisation of what the Ladies Lounge was designed to promote and how that was intended to be achieved, the judge said when quashing the 9 April decision and sending the case back to the tribunal to be reconsidered.The artist behind the installation, Kirsha Kaechele, described Friday’s decision as a “day of triumph” for women and the museum.
“The judge sided with the facts presented by our all-female team. He agrees, the Ladies Lounge is exceptional.”that the Ladies Lounge was an artwork that existed to “highlight, and challenge, inequality that exists for women in all spaces today – by providing a flipped universe where women experience advantage”.
The judge said he was satisfied the Ladies Lounge sought to highlight current and historical disadvantage and, by excluding men, had provided a space “for the reversal of the commonly prevailing power imbalance between the sexes in Australia”.
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