Joshua Simon (PhD, completed 2016)

(* 1979 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) lives and works in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and London. Curator, filmmaker and editor. Co-founder and co-editor of Maayan Journal of poetry and literature and editor of Maarvon – New Film Magazine, and The New&Bad Art Magazine, all based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Graduate of the School of History at the Tel Aviv University. Currently on the Curatorial/Knowledge PhD program in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths College/University of London. Among his curatorial projects: The Invisible Hand (2009), Internazionale! (2008) “Come to Israel: It’s Hot and Wet and We Have the Humus” (2008), The Rear – the First Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art (2007), Blanks (2005-2006) and Sharon (2004). He is the editor of the upcoming reader Palestine-Israel in the “Solution” series by Berlin based Sternberg Press (2010).

Authored/Edited Publications:
The Aesthetics of Terror, book based on censored exhibition co-curated in NYC, with essays by Boris Groys, Sven Lütticken, Eric Stryker, Manon Slome and Joshua Simon, Charta Publishers [Eng.] NYC and Milan 2009 [initiator and co-editor]
La-Tzet! (out!) - Poets Against the Attack on Gaza, Maayan & Etgar [Heb.] Tel Aviv-Jaffa 2008-9 [co-editor] [editions were published in Israel and in Beirut and Cairo [2009]
The Rear, The First Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art with essays by Irit Rogoff and Joshua Simon [Heb.+Eng.] 2007 [curator and editor]
Red: Poems of the Working Class, Maayan & Etgar [Heb.+Arab.] Tel Aviv-Jaffa 2007 [co-editor]
Blanks, with essays by Ariella Azoulay, Mijal Grinberg, Zvi Elhyani, Noam Yuran, Sergio Edelsztein and Joshua Simon, Center for Contemporary Art & Maayan [Heb.+Eng.] Tel Aviv-Jaffa 2005-6 [editor and co-curator]
Sea & Sun, flipbook-catalogue [Eng.] Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2004 [editor]
Sharon, Teachers College of Technology & Free Academy Israel [Eng.+Heb.] Tel Aviv-Jaffa 2004 [author and curator]
I slept with Ari Libsker, The Free Academy Pavilion of Art [Eng.+Heb.] Tel Aviv-Jaffa 2001 [author and curator]
National Citizens - Poems, Shadurian Publishers [Heb.] Tel Aviv-Jaffa 2001 [author]
96 Elections - Roy Chicky Arad, Tal Esther Gallery [Heb.] Tel Aviv-Jaffa 2000 [author and curator]
Professionals - photographs: solo exhibition, Heinrich Böll Foundation [Heb.] Tel Aviv-Jaffa 2000 [artist and author]
National Citizens – Essays, Havkin Publishers [Heb.] Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1998 [author]

Interests: Marxist analysis, class warfare and potentiality, citizenry and Apartheid studies, histories of class struggles and de-colonization, the revolutionary, feminism, truth and labour regimes.