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Sozita Goudouna | |
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| Born | Sozita Goudouna Athens, Greece |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Alma mater | University of London MA, Doctor of Philosophy PHD, & RADA Royal Academy of Dramatic Art MA |
| Occupation | Art theorist & curator |
| Known for | Samuel Beckett's Breath (play) |
| Awards | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, British Council Culture and Creativity UK Study Award, Alexander OnassisPublic Benefit Foundation PHD Scholarship, Onassis Scholars Foundation Research Award |
Sozita Goudouna (Greek: Σωζήτα Γκουντούνα[1][2][3][4][5][6] is a curator,[7][8][9] professor[10][11][12] [13][14] and the author of Beckett's Breath: Anti-theatricality and the Visual Arts[15] on Samuel Beckett's Breath, one of the shortest plays ever written[16] for the theatre, published by Edinburgh University Press[17][18] and released in the US by Oxford University Press.[15] According to William Hutchings' review at the Comparative Drama Conference Series 15, Goudouna's book is surely the most ever said about the least in the entire history of literary criticism.[19] In 2022 Goudouna initiated and teaches the MA on Breath Studies: Breath in the Visual and Performing Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London[20] and is the editor of the Performance Research Issue On Breath.[21]
Goudouna[22] was selected as the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Foundation curator[23][24] at Performa (performance festival)[25] in New York City founded by Roselee Goldberg.[26] Goudouna[27] served as the director of the first European funded Art Residency[28][29] and as the Visual Art Consultant of the Onassis Foundation Festival in New York.[30] She curated a project with Paul B. Preciado with the participation of Karen Finley at the Parliament of Bodies public arts program at Documenta 14[31] and in 2019 she joined as head of operations [32] Raymond Pettibon Studio.[33][34] In 2020 Goudouna founded the NYC non for profit organization GREECE IN USA[35][36][37][38] with an international board of professionals for the internalization[39] of contemporary Greek art that featured 150 Greek artists.[40] In this context she founded the art residency "The Library Residency" in Athens that is a member of the Anna Lindh Foundation[41]and conceived the arts platform "ArtPort"[42] in collaboration with the Piraeus Municipal Theatre for the promotion of international art in Greece that first presented Andres Serrano,John Akomfrah's video installation "The Airport" in Athens in 2021 and Arthur Jafa’s Love is the message, the message is death.[43][44] In July 2022 she established the Opening Art Initiative[45] in Tribeca New York as a non profit cultural venue that supports and donates to a charity dedicated to neurodiversity. The Opening gallery[46] has presented artists Michele Zalopany, Kenneth Goldsmith, John Zorn, Shoplifter (artist), Luciano Chessa, Andres Serrano, Daniel Firman, Yann Toma permanent United Nations artist, Warren Neidich, Coleman Collins, Constance DeJong, Charles Gaines, Jimmie Durham, Leslie Hewitt, Jimmy Raskin, Agnieszka Kurant, Olu Oguibe, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Chrysanne Stathacos, Leah Singer, and Spring 2024 Bill Hayward, Christopher Knowles (poet) with Sylvia Netzer D. Graham Burnett with "The Order of the Third Bird"[47] among others, and readings of Edward Said's poems by Simon Critchley, Stathis Gourgouris, Udi Aloni, as well as readings of Gabriele Tinti (poet) by Vincent Piazza. In 2022 Goudouna was the winner of the British Council Culture and Creativity UK Study Award.[48]
- ^ "Sozita Goudouna makes us proud in Manhattan". in.gr (in Greek). 23 February 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Interview with Dr. Sozita Goudouna of Greece in USA". Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- ^ "Arts in Greece │Greece in USA's founder, Sozita Goudouna, on the Internationalization of Contemporary Greek Culture in the US". Greek News Agenda. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- ^ "Onassis Community". www.onassis.org. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ Artnet, Artnet (21 September 2021). "Editors' Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From New Art by Mike Perry of 'Broad City' to the Affordable Art Fair". Artnet News. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ Mattis, Daina; Zaveckaitė, Laura; Aksu, Eren; Bezzina, Aaron; Calhoun, Will; De Wilde, Sanne; FOQL; Gervickaitė, Gabrielė; Grey, Kris (5 August 2020). "un/mute". unmute.nyc. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Μια ελληνίδα στην Performa – Ειδήσεις – νέα – Το Βήμα Online". Ειδήσεις – νέα – Το Βήμα Online (in Greek). 13 November 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ "Μια Αθηναία στη Νέα Υόρκη!". Η Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών (in Greek). 16 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ "NOT FOR SALE: Performa, η πρώτη Μπιενάλε για περφόρμανς από εικαστικούς". αθηνόραμα (in Greek). Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ "Sozita Goudouna". STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP MANAGING A REMOTE WORKFORCE. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- ^ "Raymond Pettibon, Whoever Shows: Strike Uyp th' Band!". newmuseum.org. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "Σωζήτα Γκουντούνα : Το νέο museum παρουσιάζει το πρότζεκτ της ελληνίδας επιμελήτριας". Now24.gr (in Greek). 9 November 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ^ "PSICalgary2019 | Schedule". PSICalgary2019 – Elasticity. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ^ "Sozita Goudouna – DARE conferences". dareconferences.org. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ a b Beckett's Breath: Anti-Theatricality and the Visual Arts. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism Drama and Performance. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 1 March 2018. ISBN 9781474421645.
- ^ "The Shortest…". Interesting Literature. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Sozita Goudouna – The Samuel Beckett Society". samuelbeckettsociety.org. 26 February 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ "Sozita Goudouna". Edinburgh University Press Books. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ Malarcher, Jay (20 March 2019). Text & Presentation, 2018. McFarland. ISBN 9781476670379.
- ^ "Performance Research Forum presents Dr Sozita Goudouna". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ "Call for Proposals: "On Breath" | The Magdalena Project - international network of women in theatre". themagdalenaproject.org. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ "Sozita Goudouna". IMDb. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ "Sozita Goudouna | Curated Selection". ocula.com. 13 January 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "OUT SCORE: Χω/ορικές Σημειογραφίες I". The Theatre Times. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- ^ "Katy Perry and Miuccia Prada Kick Off Performa 15 With a Renaissance Gala". Vogue. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ "Staff & Board – Performa 15". Performa 15. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ "Sozita Goudouna Speaks with TNH about Greece in USA". The National Herald. 9 March 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- ^ LaGrave, Katherine (18 June 2015). "In Athens, Austerity Makes Contemporary Art Palatable". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
- ^ "Martin Creed at the Athens School of Fine Arts Thater". Livin'Lovin'. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
- ^ Onfeny. "News Releases". Onassis Festival NY. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
- ^ "Oracle Drawings with Karen Finley & Adonis Volanakis at Documenta 14". tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
- ^ Shanahan, Ed (14 October 2021). "U.S. Charges Once-Rising Artist With Selling Raymond Pettibon Forgeries". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ "US contemporary artist and gallery target Europe". NEOS KOSMOS. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "Raymond Pettibon | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Sozita Goudouna makes us proud in Manhattan". in.gr (in Greek). 23 February 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "GREECE IN USA: A New Culture Platform Established In New York ATHENS 9,84". ΑΘΗΝΑ 9,84. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ "The Right to Silence? Greek Art Probes American Justice". Greece Is. 23 February 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ "Η Σωζήτα Γκουντούνα φέρνει τη σύγχρονη ελληνική τέχνη στη Νέα Υόρκη". VOGUE.GR. 10 February 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Greece in USA & USA in Greece – Exporting and Importing Culture". 16 September 2021.
- ^ "Editors' Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, from New Art by Mike Perry of 'Broad City' to the Affordable Art Fair". 21 September 2021.
- ^ https://www.annalindhfoundation.org/sites/default/files/members/PRESS_2021_2022_Ocula_Whitehot_Artnet_EL.pdf
- ^ "Andres Serrano & John Akomfrah in Piraeus". This is Athens. 9 September 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ Newsroom. "Andres Serrano & John Akomfrah | Piraeus | 9 September – 3 October | eKathimerini.com". www.ekathimerini.com. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ "Arthur Jafa: Golden Lion Awarded Artist in Piraeus". in.gr (in Greek). 31 August 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ Corwin, William (1 February 2023). "Wet Conceptualism". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ^ "New York Art Season 2023 – ArtRow". 13 June 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ^ "In Search of the Third Bird".
- ^ "UK STUDY Alumni Awards".