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n exhibition of film works of Gordon Matta-Clark at Melbourne’s Arts Centre, curated by me. 10–24 October 2009, as part of Melbourne International Arts Festival 2009.
A Critical Reader to accompany the Visual Arts & Design Program of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, 9–24 October, 2009. Edited by Simon Maidment and featuring contributions from:…
Co-curated (with Brett Sheehy, Hannah Fox & Tom Supple) an evening of experimental and collaborative performance featuring Melbourne Town Hall’s iconic pipe organ as part of the Melbourne…
Curated exhibition of work by Matt Stokes (Newcastle, UK), at the Malthouse Theatres, as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2009. Contemporary artist Matt Stokes delves deep…
Melbourne Festival Visual Arts Coordinator Simon Maidment met with French artists Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni on the occasion of their first Australian exhibition Les choses qui tombent [‘sometimes…
Simon Maidment and Mark Feary talk with Danius Kesminas Published in cac interviu, issue 9-10 / 2008 spring – summer.
Ronnie van Hout sculptural commission at Melbourne Art Fair 2008 Simon Maidment curated and commissioned R.U.R. a bold new work by Ronnie van Hout presented during the 2008 Melbourne…
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…
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…
‘New Ways of Working’ – Emergent Projects by Simon Maidment; NAVA Quarterly, March 2008.
Kellie Wells: Embellir, 2006. Simon Maidment & Vikki McInnes, Australian curators, essay for Move on Asia 2007.
Performance, Gesture, Ritual – Simon Maidment & Vikki McInnes Published in Move on Asia 2007, Australian component curated by Vikki McInnes & Simon Maidment. Artists, it seems, have generally…
Silvana Mangano and Gabriella Mangano – If…So…Then…, 2006 Vikki McInnes & Simon Maidment, Australian curators; Essay for Move on Asia 2007. At the outset of If…So…Then…, Silvana Mangano…
Essay for publication accompanying Making Space: artist run initiatives in Victoria, 2007
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…
Video artist with Ian Corcoran for a concert at Melbourne’s Concert Hall, February 28 2007, as part of the Morning Star Campaign to raise money and awareness of the…
Round table discussion about Cultural Exchange projects, with Natalie King, Chiara Agnelo, Roberta Tenconi, and Simon Maidment. Published in Broadsheet Vol35 No4 (p237) as Another Place by Natalie…
Discussion between Paul Shepard, Simon Maidment, and committee members David Simpkin, Adrien Allen, Katie Lee, 22 September 2006.
An exhibition of coexisting works by Simon Maidment and Paul Shephard Conical, 2 – 23 September 2006 Download distanceequalsratetimestime catalogue with an essay by Susan Fereday. Also, an…
Project Manager & one of the Australian Curatorial Advisors on Rapt! an ambitious program that exposed Japanese contemporary practice to an Australian audience in 2006. Update: the website…
Clash and Network in the Age of Globalism – essay by Simon Maidment & Vikki McInnes Australian Curators, Move on Asia exhibition
Royal Domain Tower installation, in collaboration with Alexander Knox. A permanent lighting installation on top of the tallest tower on Melbourne’s St Kilda Road.
Projection installation in collaboration with Ian Corcoran on the Incinerator complex, 25 February 2005. Part of the Moonee Valley Festival 2005.
A small collection of images from past projection projects I worked on with Ian de Gruchy.
Collaboration with Ian Corcoran, a 30 minute film with live musical accompaniment by David Bridie and The Ennio Morricone Experience. Script by Wayne McCauley. Federation Square, Melbourne, 26…
Overtones in Undertow: an exhibition of Susan Norrie’s video work at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Review for Haiku Review 2, Eds. Ruark Lewis & Chris Chapman
Review of Sunday Afternoon, a video work by Michelle Williams at RMIT Gallery. Text for Haiku Review #2 (Eds. Ruark Lewis & Chris Chapman. note: unpublished
Collaboration with Ian Corcoran. A Community Cultural Development project with ‘at risk’ teenagers culminating in a large scale urban projection installation on Trades Hall, Melbourne. Presented as part…
A collaboration with Starlie Geikie. Sound design, additional video editing. Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces 5 April – 4 May 2002 Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 16 October…
Lecture/screening by Simon Maidment, 2001