Jest, Gesture, Dance and Law

Publication Date

3-28-2026

Journal

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique

Abstract

What happens when a dance troupe encounters a court and lawyers? What staging or agonism, what competition is acted out when a piece of performance art conflicts with and potentially infracts legislative code? Can an exhibition, an activist installation, respond to and change the sedentary norms of custom and use? These and further interrogations all occurred in a recent case involving the ‘Ladies Lounge’, a female only space and show in the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), in Hobart, Tasmania.

Publisher

Springer Nature Link

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-026-10474-1

Keywords

Dance, Ladies Lounge, MONA, Performance, Gender

Disciplines

Jurisprudence | Law | Law and Gender | Law and Philosophy | Law and Society | Legal History

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