Broke council pays to erect giant phallus in town center

My isn't Dunedin urbane and sophisticated

The artwork, in the shape of a deodorant can of a brand connected to the All Blacks, also considered the "sexualisation" of Maori, and artist Rachael Rakena yesterday said it did have a phallic reference.

It gets better

The Haka Peep Show, a "towering black pou (post or pillar)", houses 3D video art works featuring four haka performed by prominent Maori that the public could view like a peepshow.

Rakena said the performers were chosen because they were Maori leaders in different fields, who did haka "as part of their everyday lives".

"The artwork considers the sexualisation and commodification of Maori and indigenous sportsmen through the use and exploitation of their masculinity and their culture, in the media."

So if you watch the All Blacks you are exploiting "their masculinity and culture"? Really?

I think I know where the exploitation is really coming from here - it might "indigenous artists" exploiting Dunedin's ratepayers whether they like it or not through the utter stupidity of the Town Council.