Sozita Goudouna

Sozita Goudouna (Greek: Σωζήτα Γκουντούνα) is a curator, professor and the author of ''Beckett's Breath: Anti-theatricality and the Visual Arts'' on Samuel Beckett's ''Breath'', one of the shortest plays ever written for the theatre, published by Edinburgh University Press and released in the US by Oxford University Press. 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. In 2022 Goudouna initiated and teaches the MA on Breath Studies: Breath in the Visual and Performing Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London and is the editor of the Performance Research Issue On Breath.

Goudouna was selected as the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Foundation curator at Performa (performance festival) in New York City founded by Roselee Goldberg. Goudouna served as the director of the first European funded Art Residency and as the Visual Art Consultant of the Onassis Foundation Festival in New York. 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 and in 2019 she joined as head of operations Raymond Pettibon Studio. In 2020 Goudouna founded the NYC non for profit organization GREECE IN USA with an international board of professionals for the internalization of contemporary Greek art that featured 150 Greek artists. In this context she founded the art residency "The Library Residency" in Athens that is a member of the Anna Lindh Foundation and conceived the arts platform "ArtPort" 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. In July 2022 she established the Opening Art Initiative in Tribeca New York as a non profit cultural venue that supports and donates to a charity dedicated to neurodiversity. The Opening gallery has presented artists Andres Serrano, 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 Watermill Center affiliated artists in Spring 2024 Bill Hayward, Christopher Knowles (poet) with Sylvia Netzer D. Graham Burnett with "The Order of the Third Bird", reviewed at the The New Yorker 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. Provided by Wikipedia