Simon Maidment

Dying in Spite of the Miraculous

Co-curated exhi­bi­tion at Gertrude Con­tem­po­rary as part of the 2010 Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Arts Festival.

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Gordon Matta-Clark: Open House essay

Essay to accom­pany exhi­bi­tion I curated, appear­ing in the Visual Arts Pro­gram Crit­i­cal Reader accom­pa­ny­ing the Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Arts Fes­ti­val 2009.

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Gordon Matta-Clark: Open House exhibition

Curated an exhi­bi­tion of film works of Gor­don Matta-Clark at Melbourne’s Arts Cen­tre, 10–24 Octo­ber 2009, as part of Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Arts Fes­ti­val 2009.

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Matt Stokes: Long After Tonight

Curated an exhi­bi­tion of work by Matt Stokes (New­cas­tle, UK), at the Malt­house The­atres, as part of the Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Arts Fes­ti­val 2009.

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The Devolution Project — catalogue essay

Cat­a­logue essay to accom­pany exhi­bi­tions at West Space, Mel­bourne from 25 July – 2 August 2008 and Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Queens­land Gallery, Toowoomba from 8 August — 28 August 2008.

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The Devolution Project exhibition

Exhibit­ing Artists: Sherry McLane Ale­jos, Belle Bassin, Alas­dair McLuckie, Jon Orth, Natalie Ryan, Kel­lie Wells

A West Space Project curated by Mark Feary & Simon Maidment

25 July – 2 August 2008, West Space, Melbourne. 8 August — 28 August at Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Queens­land Gallery, Toowoomba

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Move on Asia 2007: Kellie Wells

Kel­lie Wells: Embel­lir, 2006.

Simon Maid­ment & Vikki McInnes, Aus­tralian cura­tors, essay for Move on Asia 2007.

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Move on Asia 2007: response to theme

Per­for­mance, Ges­ture, Rit­ual - Simon Maid­ment & Vikki McInnes

Pub­lished in Move on Asia 2007, Aus­tralian com­po­nent curated by Vikki McInnes & Simon Maidment.

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Move on Asia 2007: Silvana Mangano and Gabriella Mangano

Sil­vana Mangano and Gabriella Mangano — If…So…Then…, 2006

Vikki McInnes & Simon Maid­ment, Aus­tralian cura­tors; Essay for Move on Asia 2007.

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Making Space: artist-run initiatives in Victoria

Mak­ing Space Project Man­ager.

From April to June 2007, 21 artist-run ini­tia­tives (ARIs) around Vic­to­ria pre­sented a simul­ta­ne­ous pro­gram of exhi­bi­tions, forums, per­for­mances and work­shops designed to cel­e­brate the diver­sity of this net­work and their con­tri­bu­tion to Aus­tralian con­tem­po­rary art.

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