Category: Talking

Triennial Conversations: A DARK HORIZON

Explore the implications of human extinction and the possibilities of AI with guest speakers and a video provocation by Triennial artist Tabor Robak who examines the relationship between…

Mel O’Callaghan NGV virtual studio visit

Join Simon Maidment on the @ngvmelbourne Instagram account for a live virtual studio visit with artist Mel O’Callaghan, Wed 21 Oct, 6pm AEST. Maidment and O’Callaghan be talking…

Nikos Pantazopoulos NGV virtual studio visit

Wednesday 9 Sept 2020, 6pm AEST join Simon Maidment for a virtual studio visit with Nikos Pantazopoulos via the @ngvmelbourne instagram account. Dr Nikos Pantazopoulos explores LGBTIQ+ politics through an…

KAWS exhibition tour

A multi-stop curator’s tour of KAWS: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness at the National Gallery of Victoria by Simon Maidment. KAWS: THE EARLY DAYS KAWS: THE INFLUENCE…

Taryn Simon in conversation

Tue 28 May, 6pm–7pm Clemenger BBDO Auditorium NGV International Taryn Simon is widely recognised as one of the most exciting and renowned conceptual artists of her time, working…

Inspecting the foundations: a guide to framing histories of the peripheral

Free public talk, 3:30pm Saturday 16 March 2019, NGV International, Melbourne Art Book Fair. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has emerged as a significant and leading voice in…

Alicja Kwade in conversation

In conversation with Dr Simon Maidment (NGV) and Dr Simone Slee (VCA), Berlin based artist Alicja Kwade provides insights into her artistic practice and recent international projects, including her participation in the 57th…

FIELD WORK podcast, on Stelarc

I have contributed some thoughts on reading the practice of iconic Australian artist Stelarc to an episode of the FIELD WORK podcast, also featuring the artist and the…

Curators episode, ABC iView

For Simon Maidment, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, artist Brook Andrew’s Vox Beyond Tasmania has an inexhaustible power similar to that of many…

Carsten Höller with Simon Maidment & Louise Neri

Speaking in the NGV Great Hall, in view of his magnificent participatory sculpture Golden Mirror Carousel 2014, Carsten Hӧller shares insights into his unique approach to art making,…

Interview with Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni

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…

Another Place

Roundtable discussion about Cultural Exchange projects, with (left to right) Chiara Agnello, Simon Maidment, Roberta Tenconi, Alexie Glass and Natalie King. Published in Broadsheet Vol.35 No.4 (p. 237)…

distanceequalsratetimestime CrONICAL

Discussion between Paul Shepard, Simon Maidment, and committee members David Simpkin, Adrien Allen, Katie Lee, 22 September 2006.

The Physical Reality of the Crossfader and Its Influence on Film Sound.

Lecture/screening by Simon Maidment, 2001