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Presenting a vision of the twentieth century as a history of false starts, misbegotten technologies and missing utopias, Living in the Ruinsis an archaeological dig into the material culture that forms our present.

In association with the influential New York magazine Cabinet, curators Adam Jasper and Holly Williams draw together objects from art, science and ethnography in a celebration of the profound and the mundane.

The exhibition combines projects from Cabinet with museum pieces and works by Australian and international artists including Daniel Knorr, Patrick Pound, Gianni Motti, Hany Armanious, Maria Friberg, Roman Signer, Sarah Pickering, Nicholas Mangan, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Vicky Browne, the Institute of Critical Zoologists,Michael Stevenson, Jaki Middleton & David Lawrey, Nadia Wagner, Alex Gawronski, Lillian O’Neil,Matthew Shannon and others; with loans from theMacleay Museum and the University of Sydney, theMuseum of Old and New Art, the Westpac Banking Group Archives and the Powerhouse Museum.

Living in the Ruins creates a contemporary Wunderkammer that traverses diverse themes from islands to explosions and giant spheres. The exhibition will be anchored by a reading room of the only complete collection of Cabinet publications in Australia; it will be accompanied by a print and online project developed by Zoe Sadokierski and a colloquium on post-disciplinary curation facilitated by Lizzie Muller. Contact the gallery for details.

18:32"The refusal, especially among liberals, to believe that pornography has any real relationship to sexual violence is astonishing. Liberals have always believed in the value and importance of education. But when it comes to pornography, we are asked to believe that nothing pornographic, whether written or visual, has an educative effect on anyone. A recognition that pornography must teach something does not imply any inevitable conclusion: it does not per se countenance censorship. It does, however, demand that we pay some attention to the quality of life, to the content of pornography. And it especially demands that when sexual violence against women is epidemic, serious questions be asked about the function and value of material that advocates such violence and makes it synonymous with pleasure." —

“Pornography’s Part in Sexual Violence” in The New Terrorism - Andrea Dworkin, 1981 (via shannonwest)

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17:55"I support female anger. I support women being angry towards the gender wage gap, the glass ceiling, anti-choice views and legislation, the social standards of our gender performativity (“femininity). I support women being angry towards unrealistic and harmful beauty standards, towards the virgin/whore dichotomy, towards the sexualization of female innocence and the cultural denying of female sexuality in our old age. I support women being angry at rape culture, at a society that ignores our power and discourages us from using it. I support women who are angry at racism, misogyny, classism and gender roles. I support women who are not afraid to express their anger despite constant cultural reminders that we should sit down and shut up and let the “big, smart, strong men” do the talking. I support women who are angry at the fetishization of lesbians and who realize that turning their sexuality into a fetish isn’t mainstream acceptance but just another manifestation of misogyny. I support women who are angry at the sexualization and glamorization of female pain and distress in porn and the mainstream media. I support women who are angry at the straight male gaze and who are angry at how it represents us. I support women who are angry at sexual harassment and all the women who have come out about their abuse and no one ever believed them. I support the women who are angry and tired of being victim-blamed, who are tired and angry of their choices being policed because clothing doesn’t make men rape, misogyny does." —

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Of course gender is not a modern invention. It’s been around for as long as patriarchy. “Women are like this; men are like that. “Gender roles can be found in the Bible—divinely ordered social difference between males and females.

And who is the beneficiary of this “difference”? WHO is the materially advantaged sex? Males, always always always MALES. That, is the purpose of gender.

Gender is not a fun dress up game for people who fancy themselves as art. It is a complex social structure whose sole purpose is to distribute power and resources between the sexes. It does this unequally: see ubiquitous evidence of women’s oppression. GENDER is not cool for females.

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