What the . . .!!!!??? 11/2/2008
Call me old-fashioned but this normally broadminded old beggar is astonished that this poster is allowed to stand in a place as busy as the corner of Flinders and Elizabeth streets in Melbourne and that the usual whiners about sexism in media are silent about it. Surely, it’s not because the deviate behind it claims it’s art. It’s not art and it’s certainly not original. Morons have been daubing dunny walls with such representations for millenia. In the meantime it’s a pedestrian traffic hazard as strollers stop dead in their tracks on sight of the obscenity, causing freeway-style pileups in their wake.
Picture removed following Melbourne City Council’s decision to tear down posters. For those who came late, it was a photo of a poster in central Melbourne for a sculpture exhibition titled “C***S” and featuring representations of female genitalia.
Haven’t seen any press coverage. But then it would be a terribly difficult story to write while remaining within the bounds of decency.
UPDATE:
Seems this ‘confronting’ venture into depravity is brought to you by the Victorian Government with the assistance of the City of Melbourne.
UPDATE 2:
Reader Walter Plinge says the posters are gone. After a complaint to Neil Mitchell MCC had them taken down. The exhibition itself will have a warning posted outside.
The picture will be taken down in a few hours. The site gets enough offensive pollution from a certain troll.
Modern Art is meant to outrage and provoke. … Now lets see them do an art piece on tasty whale meat. lol.
The depths to which ‘culturalism’ has sunk never ceases to amaze me. Perhaps I am turning into my parents but the more I see pathetic garbage like this spewed onto a helpless public, the more I despair about the abyssmal depths to which ‘culture’ and also academia have sunk. We are not in a desert but a rubbish tip.
The City of Melbourne is a joke.
They spent over$800 ,000 on sister cities last year including a chinese weeding ceremony, a boat race and travel expenses. God knows what ridiculous amounts they spend on arts, events and the multi -culture gravy train????
Meanwhile they neglect to fund in any shape or form a drop in centre and play space for disadvantaged children,young people and families in Kensington.
Only 5 of these special places exist in the whole of Australia !!
All are well funded by their councils !!
They’re gone. After a complaint to Neil Mitchell MCC had them taken down. The exhibition itself will have a warning posted outside.
The best bit was the 30-something woman who rang Mitchell and complained the posters dishonoured her genitalia. You can’t make that stuff up.
The older I get, the more I realise how right my parents were. Too late, though, it seems we’ve let the jackasses of our generation take over the country.
BTW, is ‘the National Capital’ now the site of a new Aztec-type cult? Is that what our taxes are for, putting on grandiose, expensive and pointless ceremonies?