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The Culture and Creativity Award of the Study UK Alumni 2022 was given to Assistant Professor and curator Dr Sozita Goudouna. The winners of the Study UK Alumni Awards 2022 in Greece were announced at a prestigious award ceremony on Thursday March 3, 2022. The award ceremony was hosted by Ambassador Matthew Lodge at the British Embassy Residence, in the presence of the Director of the British Council of Greece, Anastasia Andritsou. In his speech at the ceremony, the British Ambassador Matthew Lodge noted: “Education has always been a bridge between Greece and the United Kingdom. Academic excellence, open horizons, understanding and exchange, professional opportunities, are the main reasons why thousands of Greeks have chosen British institutions for their studies. Throughout time, they have contributed to scientific research, growth, and progress, in the United Kingdom and Greece, as well as any other part of the world. These ties are extremely important, and we will continue to nurture them.” Maria Tsakali, Head of Education at the British Council of Greece, further noted: “The Study UK Alumni Awards, now in their fifth year of iteration in Greece, are attracting more and more Greek alumni of British Education who have a leading role in their professional fields. Their stories and successes are testament to the impact that British Education has had in in their excelling and leading role in the professions they have pursued, and a lasting inspiration for the next generation.”

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The Culture and Creativity Award of the Study UK Alumni 2022 was given to Assistant Professor and curator Dr Sozita Goudouna

Dr Sozita Goudouna founded in New York on March 2020 the non-profit organization “Greece in USA” which aims to promote Greek Culture in the United States. The organization’s activities focus on the development of research, with an emphasis on the cultural policy and extroversion of Greek Culture. Cultural activities of “Greece in USA” have been presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET) and the French Embassy. The curator’s new initiative, launched on July 2020 in New York, concerns the support of people with autism through contemporary art and the financial assistance of Luv Michael, an American organization that addresses work issues for people with autism. “Opening Art Initiative” focuses on neurodiversity and the ways in which contemporary art can raise awareness with regards to neurological differences.

ARTPORT: A New Cultural Platform

Art and Culture

In the framework of ‘Greece in USA’ platform and its promotion of contemporary Greek culture in the United States, with the presentation of 150 Greek artists and their work in 2021, Dr. Sozita Goudouna conceived and curated in collaboration with the Municipal Theater of Piraeus a new cultural platform entitled ARTPORT.

ARTPORT focuses on collaborations and cultural interconnections between the United States and Greece, showcasing artistic experimentation in visual arts, performance, and its further impact in the broader contemporary cultural production, in the new space of the Municipal Theater at the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) Warehouse Complex, but also in the Theater’s main building.

Celebrating the variety and diversity of contemporary cultural media and creative industries, the new cultural platform of the Municipal Theater of Piraeus sheds light on the evolution of the visual arts’ language in relation to theater and performance art, and centers on the presentation of international artists in a dialog with Greek ones.

ARTPORT aims to research the visual as well as the aesthetic range of experimentation in the visual arts, especially in the framework of contemporary art exhibitions and the cultural scene of Piraeus. The program was launched on September 8, 2021, with “/Torture,” the first ever in Athens solo exhibition of Andres Serrano, one of the most celebrated American artists, who inaugurated the new Theater’s space in Warehouse A3 of OLP, and the presentation of a video installation entitled “The Airport” by John Akomfah, on September 16, on the main stage of the Municipal Theater of Piraeus.

"The Airport" by John Akomfah is a video installation comprised of three films, conceived as a meditation on the history of Greece and its recent financial crisis. The work delves into the landscape of Southern Greece and specifically the abandoned airport of Hellinikon, which is under a state of transformation. The installation draws on the work of film directors Stanley Kubrick (1935-2012) and Theodoros Angelopoulos (1935-2012). The work’s elastic sense of time references “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), while Angelopoulos’s technique of continuous motion between the camera, the characters, and the landscape, is employed to a poetic effect.

The solo exhibition “/Torture” by Andres Serrano, a production of the organization a/political delves into the history of torturing.

Production: http://www.outoftheboxintermedia.org