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If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or menopause
and are interested in showing it on
thesepages (it's free!), contact MUM
Marie Claire magazine
(Italian edition) featured several
of the above artists in an article about
this
museum and menstruation in 2003. The
newspaper Corriere della Sera (Io Donna
magazine) (Milan, Italy) and the magazine
Dishy (Turkey) showed some of
the artists in 2005 in articles about this
museum.
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The Art of Menstruation at the Museum of
Menstruation and Women's Health
"Shove it!"
2001
Bronze, approx. 1 meter x 0.30 meter
Isa Menziest writes,
Basically I loved the idea of
creating a giant tampon out of
bronze - tampons (and all other
sanitary products) in Australia
attracted a "luxury tax" (which
has now been replaced by the
GST); by creating this most
'luxurious' of items (HA!) in
bronze I guess I wanted to have
a bit of a dig at that.
I also think that in this
allegedly "post-feminist" era we
need to seriously examine the
ways we are manipulated - with
all its marketing-generated
connotations of freedom, the
word "tampon" actually means
"plug." The idea of celebrating
aspects of feminine culture -
especially the once taboo
subject of menstruation - is
also a key theme.
It doesn't have to be loaded
with political significance,
though - it appeals most to
one's sense of humour - and it
always gets a reaction!!
I myself am a "mature-age"
student (big deal - that just
means I'm over the age of 21!)
at the University of Western
Sydney, where I am in my second
year studying social ecology.
Creativity in all its forms is
my passion, and sometimes it's
unleashed in the form of art
works like "Shove it!" When I
grow up I want to change the
world.
And later she added,
Yup, it is bronze - not solid;
it has an inner core of
refractory material (the stuff
we use to make molds for
casting), but it weighs twenty
kilograms nonetheless!! It's not
HUGE - the body would be about
50 cms long, and the tail maybe
twice that - but the tail is
detachable, so you can arrange
it however. Sorry, I don't have
it here so I can't give you
exact measurements.
I would love to make a huge
one, like with a body of over a
metre. Hm . . . . (!)
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artist: Megan
Morris
See all the
artists in the links in
the left-hand
column.
If you create or own art
concerning menstruation or
menopause and
are interested in showing it on
thesepages (it's free!), contact
MUM
See
also
Bea Nettles' art The
Moonsisters
© 2001 Harry
Finley. It is illegal to reproduce
or distribute
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