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Sozita Goudouna

Sozita Goudouna (Greek: Σωζήτα Γκουντούνα) is a curator and professor, and the author of ''Beckett's Breath: Anti-theatricality and the Visual Arts'', on Samuel Beckett's ''Breath'', published by Edinburgh University Press and released in the US by Oxford University Press. In 2022, Goudouna launched the masters program "Breath Studies: Breath in the Visual and Performing Arts" at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also the editor of the 2024 ''Performance Research'' issue "On Breath".

Goudouna was selected as the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Foundation curator at the Performa festival in New York City. She 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 the Raymond Pettibon Studio as head of operations. In 2020, Goudouna founded the NYC nonprofit organization Greece in USA with an international board of professionals, for the internalization of contemporary Greek art, which featured 150 Greek artists. In this context, she founded the art residency "the Library Residency" in Athens, and conceived the arts platform "ArtPort" in collaboration with the Piraeus Municipal Theatre, for the promotion of international art in Greece, which first presented Andres Serrano and 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 Gallery in Tribeca, New York, as a nonprofit cultural venue that supports and donates to a charity dedicated to neurodiversity. The Opening Gallery has presented artists including Andres Serrano, Christopher Knowles, Orlan, Michele Zalopany, Kenneth Goldsmith, John Zorn, Shoplifter, Luciano Chessa, Yann Toma, Warren Neidich, Coleman Collins, Constance DeJong, Charles Gaines, Jimmie Durham, Leslie Hewitt, Agnieszka Kurant, Olu Oguibe, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Chrysanne Stathacos, Rainer Ganahl, Brenda Zlamany Leah Singer, and D. Graham Burnett, as well as readings of Edward Said's poems by Simon Critchley, Stathis Gourgouris, and Udi Aloni.

In 2022, Goudouna was the winner of the British Council Culture and Creativity UK Study Award. Provided by Wikipedia