Artist Kirsha Kaechele arrived at the Tasmania courtroom alongside 25 women dressed in navy business attire, all of whom made a show of reading feminist texts in the courtroom.

Not sure if this was already posted.

The article describes the referenced court case, and the artist’s views and intentions.

Personally, I both loved and hated the idea at first. The more I think about it, the more I find it valuable in some way.

    • potustheplant@feddit.nlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Reflection on what? The actions of people that are now senile or dead? And how? By discriminating people? Yeah, really positive.

      • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
        811·
        9 months ago

        Reflection on history. I don’t see that as an inherently negative thing even though it would ostensibly exclude me.

        Do projects that drive us to consider the plights of slaves, Jews in the holocaust, or other groups that were tortured, murdered, or otherwise persecuted en masse elicit this same response to you? If not, why?

        It seems to me that the art is doing what it’s intended to do, illicit a reaction. What you do with that reaction, positive or negative, is up to you.

        • potustheplant@feddit.nlEnglish
          71·
          9 months ago

          No one said that reflection on any given topic is negative. Just that this particular way of doing it is antagonistic and I’d argue is even detrimental to the conversation. I mean, if you actually learned that discrimination is wrong, why do you teach that by actually doing it yourself? It’s like a parent, that got beat up when he was young, beating up his kid to teach him that violence is a bad thing.