An Australia Post worker stopped the delivery of approximately 30 postcards to the media and VIPs because they found the content on an Adelaide Fringe event invitation offensive; on the eve of it’s opening at 6pm, 25th February.

The artist responsible for the sculptural exhibition, Cunts…and other Conversations, Greg Taylor, was contacted by Australia Post, who threatened prosecution unless the “offensive material” was collected.

The reason for refusing to process the postcards given by Australia Post was that “a reasonable person would find it offensive.”

Said Taylor, “I take offence to the assertion that the people who are supportive of this exhibition are not reasonable. I know many people were looking forward to receiving this invitation in the mail who are very reasonable!”

“Where is the consistency? In Melbourne and in Adelaide the first two batches were received by the intended recipients, so it really does highlight the power of one ignorant person who, to my knowledge, does not work for the Office for Film and Literature Classification.”

The artist now faces a situation where key members of the media and VIPs have not received the invitation which features photographs of the sculpted works and the title of the exhibition.

The exhibition has faced challenges from the beginning, when during the preview in Melbourne in 2008, a City Councillor ordered the removal of posters after receiving only two complaints. In Adelaide, Taylor could find no distribution companies prepared to handle his poster and flyer distribution due to the negative connotations of the word ‘cunt.’

“This exhibition is an attempt to begin conversations that might challenge our thinking. I want people to question how a word that simply meant ‘a woman’s pubic area’ came to be the vilest thing one can say.”

CUNTS… and other Conversations is a collection of clay life size portraits of over 140 cunts, premiering in Adelaide. An edition has been purchased by MONA (Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania).

WHAT                   Official Opening CUNTS… and other Conversations
WHERE                 Upstairs, 155 Hindley Street, Adelaide
WHEN                  Wednesday 25 February, 6pm-8pm

CUNTS… and other Conversations: open 12pm to 7pm, 26 February until March 18, upstairs at 155 Hindley Street, Adelaide.

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