Sozita Goudouna | |
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Born | Sozita Goudouna |
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 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", [47] reviewed at the The New Yorker [48] 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. [49]
Goudouna moved to London in 1996 where she settled until 2012. She received her BA (Hons) in Philosophy with Theatre from London Metropolitan University and holds a Master of Arts (MA) in Text, Performance and Directing from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and in English Literature from Kings College, University of London. She holds a PhD [50] from the University of London on high modernist theory focusing on Michael Fried and the work of Samuel Beckett supervised by David Bradby. [51] Goudouna received a scholarship in 2002 from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Public Benefit Foundation [52] to pursue her PhD research.
Goudouna was born in Athens, Greece. [53] When she was 15 she co-organised, with a collective of five friends, the first renowned concert in Greece in support of ACT UP at the old brewery of FIX with the participation of school bands and of popular alternative bands including Groove Machine, Make Believe and Honey Dive. [54] Goudouna first gained art world attention in 2000, when she directed for RADA a performance and visual art project in a listed house at Duke st in London, in collaboration with dancers from The Place based on Ritter, Dene, Voss by Thomas Bernhardt. [8] The site specific project at Duke st and The Place, London alluded to Haus Wittgenstein's modernist house in Vienna. [9]
Goudouna's book Beckett's Breath: Antitheatricality and the Visual Arts [15] was published by Edinburgh University Press [17] [18] in 2018 and released in the US by Oxford University Press. Samuel Beckett wrote Breath (play), a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions. Goudouna's monograph analyses the ways the piece became emblematic of the intermedia exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, as well as the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. [17] [15] [18] The book examines Beckett's ultimate venture to define the borders between a theatrical performance and purely visual representation and juxtaposes Beckett's Breath (play) with breath-related artworks by visual artists including Valie Export, Feminist Art Workers, Marcel Duchamp, Piero Manzoni, Gerhard Richter, Bridget Riley, Giuseppe Penone, John Latham, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Nancy Spero, Lygia Clark, Art & Language, Marina Abramović. [55]
Goudouna [9] was selected in May 2015 as the first Andrew W. Mellon Foundation curatorial fellow at Performa. [26] In 2005 Performa (performance festival) hosted the first Performa Biennial, a series of performance events at venues and institutions across New York City by its founding curator and editor Roselee Goldberg. For the 2005 Biennial the Solomon R. Guggenheim presented Marina Abramović's Seven Easy Pieces, [56] in which Abramović re-performed several works from the canon of early performance works, including two of her own. Performances included works by Gina Pane, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Beuys among others. For Performa15, [57] that celebrated ten years since the founding of the Performa biennial in 2005, Goudouna [58] worked for the production of new commissions by artists Yvonne Rainer, Tania Bruguera, Francesco Vezzoli, David Hallberg, Juliana Huxtable, Robin Rhode, Laura Lima, Heather Phillipson, Chimurenga, Edgar Arceneaux, Erika Vogt and Performa alums Jérôme Bel, Jesper Just among others. [59] [60] [61] [62] During Goudouna's post in 2015, Performa announced a new partnership with the Paris-based arts organisation Lafayette Anticipation, Fondation Galeries Lafayette. [63] For Performa, Goudouna initiated the commissions from Performa Archives among other initiatives. [64]
Goudouna curated a production on Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus that was presented from 2009 until 2010 as a location driven project in Shunt Vaults Shunt (theatre company) London Bridge, the Byzantine and Christian Museum and the Benaki Museum, as well as in public spaces in Elephant and Castle. For this project Goudouna collaborated with Werner Nekes, [65] Mat Collishaw, Flux Factory NYC, The International Institute for Important Items and more than 100 artists and architects. [66] Owing to Goudouna's extensive research on Roussel [67] she was invited to participate in the tribute to John Ashbery. Raymond Roussel Society consists of a special team of creators, thinkers and artists who were profoundly affected by Roussel. [68] [69] [70] [67] The Raymond Roussel Society honoured John Ashbery with the Raymond Roussel Society Medal [71] in June 2017 in New York. [72]
Sozita Goudouna has been widely involved in ecological Activism. [73] She ran for the municipal elections of the island of Hydra in 2010 as a member of the Ecological Association of Hydra. [74] [53] Since 1988 she is a member of the association which was founded in 1988 in Hydra (island) with the aim to protect the environment and Greek cultural heritage within the broad areas of archaeology, traditional settlements and submarine antiquities in Hydra (island) and Dokos . [75] [76] [77]
The range of the Association's activities covers the protection of natural reserves, protected species and most notably the Mediterranean monk seal "Monachus-Monachus" Mediterranean monk seal which lives and reproduces in the Myrtoan Sea and the eastern part of the Peloponnese. The ecological association has received support from Stavros Niarchos Foundation. [78] In 2002 she became a board member of the association. As a board member she co-organised projects in collaboration with the Zoology Department at the University of Athens, the University of the Aegean, the Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change, the European Union and other organisations including WWF World Wide Fund for Nature and mother Society for the Study and Protection of the Mediterranean Monk Seal. [79] [80] The projects that she is actively involved include the following:
The Association's protection of the traditional settlements and the archaeological heritage have led to six executive decrees for the benefit of Hydra, including the 1993 the transference of jurisdictions from the Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change and the Ministry of the Aegean Sea to the Ministry of Culture. In 1994 the ancient island of "Aperopia" Dokos known today as "Dokos" was proclaimed as "Non-building Zone A" and the sea around Dokos an archaeological park. In 1996, Hydra was declared an archaeological space and every settlement of the island was held under the auspices of the state. In 1998, the department of Byzantine and post-Byzantine Monuments resulted in the placing of signs/epigraphs in Hydra under particular specifications. [81] In 2002, the association resolved the issue of the ban of vehicles in Hydra with the publication of a joint Ministerial decree regarding the circulation of vehicles in the island. [82] [83] [84] The Association is organising events with institutions including the "Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and the Cultural Heritage," the Goulandris Natural History Museum, the Benaki Museum, the National Gallery, the Byzantine Museum and National Television ERT where Goudouna presented a show on Art and Upcycling [85]
Dr. Sozita Goudouna is a member of the Ends Network [86] an open-access and multipolar organization that initiates research projects at the intersection of posthumanism and collaborative theatre and performance research methods.Ends is supported by: Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), The University of Antwerp, The University at Buffalo, State University of New York, The University of California, Los Angeles. The network has also received support from La Salle University of the Arts Singapore. Ends is facilitated by: Prof. Felipe Cervera, Kyoko Iwaki, Prof. Eero Laine, and Kristof van Baarle. Ends was formed and started work as part of the steering committee planning the 2020 Performance Studies international conference and Sozita Goudouna is one a co-author of Mourning The Ends of Collaborative Writing and Performance [87] published by Punctum Books a publication that introduces for the first time collaborative academic authorship in the arts and humanities and co-editor of the Performance Research issue on The Mundane:. [88]
In July 2022 Dr. Goudouna established the Opening Art Initiative [45] at 42 Walker st in Tribeca New York [89] as a non profit cultural venue that supports and donates to a charity dedicated to neurodiversity. The Opening gallery [90] has presented artists Hans Weigand [91] Michele Zalopany, Kenneth Goldsmith, John Zorn, Shoplifter (artist), [92] 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 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 [93]
Sozita Goudouna | |
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Born | Sozita Goudouna |
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 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", [47] reviewed at the The New Yorker [48] 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. [49]
Goudouna moved to London in 1996 where she settled until 2012. She received her BA (Hons) in Philosophy with Theatre from London Metropolitan University and holds a Master of Arts (MA) in Text, Performance and Directing from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and in English Literature from Kings College, University of London. She holds a PhD [50] from the University of London on high modernist theory focusing on Michael Fried and the work of Samuel Beckett supervised by David Bradby. [51] Goudouna received a scholarship in 2002 from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Public Benefit Foundation [52] to pursue her PhD research.
Goudouna was born in Athens, Greece. [53] When she was 15 she co-organised, with a collective of five friends, the first renowned concert in Greece in support of ACT UP at the old brewery of FIX with the participation of school bands and of popular alternative bands including Groove Machine, Make Believe and Honey Dive. [54] Goudouna first gained art world attention in 2000, when she directed for RADA a performance and visual art project in a listed house at Duke st in London, in collaboration with dancers from The Place based on Ritter, Dene, Voss by Thomas Bernhardt. [8] The site specific project at Duke st and The Place, London alluded to Haus Wittgenstein's modernist house in Vienna. [9]
Goudouna's book Beckett's Breath: Antitheatricality and the Visual Arts [15] was published by Edinburgh University Press [17] [18] in 2018 and released in the US by Oxford University Press. Samuel Beckett wrote Breath (play), a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions. Goudouna's monograph analyses the ways the piece became emblematic of the intermedia exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, as well as the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. [17] [15] [18] The book examines Beckett's ultimate venture to define the borders between a theatrical performance and purely visual representation and juxtaposes Beckett's Breath (play) with breath-related artworks by visual artists including Valie Export, Feminist Art Workers, Marcel Duchamp, Piero Manzoni, Gerhard Richter, Bridget Riley, Giuseppe Penone, John Latham, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Nancy Spero, Lygia Clark, Art & Language, Marina Abramović. [55]
Goudouna [9] was selected in May 2015 as the first Andrew W. Mellon Foundation curatorial fellow at Performa. [26] In 2005 Performa (performance festival) hosted the first Performa Biennial, a series of performance events at venues and institutions across New York City by its founding curator and editor Roselee Goldberg. For the 2005 Biennial the Solomon R. Guggenheim presented Marina Abramović's Seven Easy Pieces, [56] in which Abramović re-performed several works from the canon of early performance works, including two of her own. Performances included works by Gina Pane, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Beuys among others. For Performa15, [57] that celebrated ten years since the founding of the Performa biennial in 2005, Goudouna [58] worked for the production of new commissions by artists Yvonne Rainer, Tania Bruguera, Francesco Vezzoli, David Hallberg, Juliana Huxtable, Robin Rhode, Laura Lima, Heather Phillipson, Chimurenga, Edgar Arceneaux, Erika Vogt and Performa alums Jérôme Bel, Jesper Just among others. [59] [60] [61] [62] During Goudouna's post in 2015, Performa announced a new partnership with the Paris-based arts organisation Lafayette Anticipation, Fondation Galeries Lafayette. [63] For Performa, Goudouna initiated the commissions from Performa Archives among other initiatives. [64]
Goudouna curated a production on Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus that was presented from 2009 until 2010 as a location driven project in Shunt Vaults Shunt (theatre company) London Bridge, the Byzantine and Christian Museum and the Benaki Museum, as well as in public spaces in Elephant and Castle. For this project Goudouna collaborated with Werner Nekes, [65] Mat Collishaw, Flux Factory NYC, The International Institute for Important Items and more than 100 artists and architects. [66] Owing to Goudouna's extensive research on Roussel [67] she was invited to participate in the tribute to John Ashbery. Raymond Roussel Society consists of a special team of creators, thinkers and artists who were profoundly affected by Roussel. [68] [69] [70] [67] The Raymond Roussel Society honoured John Ashbery with the Raymond Roussel Society Medal [71] in June 2017 in New York. [72]
Sozita Goudouna has been widely involved in ecological Activism. [73] She ran for the municipal elections of the island of Hydra in 2010 as a member of the Ecological Association of Hydra. [74] [53] Since 1988 she is a member of the association which was founded in 1988 in Hydra (island) with the aim to protect the environment and Greek cultural heritage within the broad areas of archaeology, traditional settlements and submarine antiquities in Hydra (island) and Dokos . [75] [76] [77]
The range of the Association's activities covers the protection of natural reserves, protected species and most notably the Mediterranean monk seal "Monachus-Monachus" Mediterranean monk seal which lives and reproduces in the Myrtoan Sea and the eastern part of the Peloponnese. The ecological association has received support from Stavros Niarchos Foundation. [78] In 2002 she became a board member of the association. As a board member she co-organised projects in collaboration with the Zoology Department at the University of Athens, the University of the Aegean, the Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change, the European Union and other organisations including WWF World Wide Fund for Nature and mother Society for the Study and Protection of the Mediterranean Monk Seal. [79] [80] The projects that she is actively involved include the following:
The Association's protection of the traditional settlements and the archaeological heritage have led to six executive decrees for the benefit of Hydra, including the 1993 the transference of jurisdictions from the Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change and the Ministry of the Aegean Sea to the Ministry of Culture. In 1994 the ancient island of "Aperopia" Dokos known today as "Dokos" was proclaimed as "Non-building Zone A" and the sea around Dokos an archaeological park. In 1996, Hydra was declared an archaeological space and every settlement of the island was held under the auspices of the state. In 1998, the department of Byzantine and post-Byzantine Monuments resulted in the placing of signs/epigraphs in Hydra under particular specifications. [81] In 2002, the association resolved the issue of the ban of vehicles in Hydra with the publication of a joint Ministerial decree regarding the circulation of vehicles in the island. [82] [83] [84] The Association is organising events with institutions including the "Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and the Cultural Heritage," the Goulandris Natural History Museum, the Benaki Museum, the National Gallery, the Byzantine Museum and National Television ERT where Goudouna presented a show on Art and Upcycling [85]
Dr. Sozita Goudouna is a member of the Ends Network [86] an open-access and multipolar organization that initiates research projects at the intersection of posthumanism and collaborative theatre and performance research methods.Ends is supported by: Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), The University of Antwerp, The University at Buffalo, State University of New York, The University of California, Los Angeles. The network has also received support from La Salle University of the Arts Singapore. Ends is facilitated by: Prof. Felipe Cervera, Kyoko Iwaki, Prof. Eero Laine, and Kristof van Baarle. Ends was formed and started work as part of the steering committee planning the 2020 Performance Studies international conference and Sozita Goudouna is one a co-author of Mourning The Ends of Collaborative Writing and Performance [87] published by Punctum Books a publication that introduces for the first time collaborative academic authorship in the arts and humanities and co-editor of the Performance Research issue on The Mundane:. [88]
In July 2022 Dr. Goudouna established the Opening Art Initiative [45] at 42 Walker st in Tribeca New York [89] as a non profit cultural venue that supports and donates to a charity dedicated to neurodiversity. The Opening gallery [90] has presented artists Hans Weigand [91] Michele Zalopany, Kenneth Goldsmith, John Zorn, Shoplifter (artist), [92] 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 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 [93]