NEW YORK, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- GREECE IN USA is a New York City-based organization that promotes
Greek culture in the U.S. Founded by Dr. Sozita
Goudouna, one of America's acclaimed Greek curators
and adjunct professor at City University of
New York (CUNY), GREECE IN USA makes an impressive
launch amid the pandemic, under the auspices of
the Greek Ministry of Culture, with the group
exhibition The Right to Silence? on the reform of
criminal justice.
The first iteration is presented at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) until
July 31, 2021, with the participation
of 43 Greek and Cypriot artists, while the second parallel
program "The Right to Breathe" will be launched
May 14, 2021, at Seneca Village in Central
Park and at UNDERCURRENT.NYC with the
participation of 100 Greek artists. The exhibition
venue was selected owing to its focus on
U.S. and EU partnerships such
as EUNIC and UN/MUTE.
Board of Directors
GREECE IN USA
produces innovative programs in the field of arts and
education, exploring the evolving diversity and richness of Greek
culture. The Board of Directors consists of prominent
personalities including Antonios
Backos (corporate lawyer, non-profit consultant);
Nicholas Karytinos (professor and architect); Yiannis Kaplanis, General Manager, Athens & Epidaurus Festival; Andreas Takis, President, MoMUS; Nektarios Antoniou, Head of Culture, St.
Nicholas; Rachel Katwan,
producer, Pomegranate Arts; and Tressa Berman, founder,
Institute for Inter-Cultural Practice, among others.
Founding Director
Dr. Sozita Goudouna is
the inspirer, founder and artistic director of GREECE IN USA, head of Raymond Pettibon Foundation, and adjunct
professor at CUNY. She is the author of Beckett's Breath:
Anti-theatricality and the Visual Arts and researcher at the
Organism for Poetic Research, supported by NYU and Brown
University. Dr. Goudouna has had a distinguished 20-year
career in the cultural sector, serving in many executive roles
prior to becoming the director of "Greece in USA" in 2020. From 2015,
she has taught at New York
University as the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon Curator at
PERFORMA Biennial in NYC. She holds a Ph.D. from the
University of London on art and
respiration. Her internationally exhibited projects include
participations at New Museum NYC, Performa Biennial and
Institute in New York, Documenta,
and Onassis Foundation New York, among others. She served as
treasurer of the board of directors of AICA Hellas International
Art Critics Association and as a member of the board of directors
at ITI International Theatre Association, UNESCO.
Partnering Non-Profit: Out of the Box
Intermedia
Out of the Box Intermedia was founded
in 2008 in London and Athens and produces projects with
the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of
Tourism, the European Cultural Foundation, the British
Council, the French Institute, NEON Foundation, Onassis Foundation,
et al.
Exhibition Brief: The Right to Silence?
A constitutive element of the prison is silencing - the silencing
of lives, often of justice, of suffering and political expression.
The exhibition attempts to uncover the profound and complex
sense of silence that characterizes the prison industrial complex
so as to examine whether art and aesthetics can break the silence
about crucial political issues such as mass incarceration and
criminal justice reform.
Participating Artists:
Maria Antelman, Stephen
Antonakos, Klitsa
Antoniou, Kenji Aoki, Margarita Athanassiou,
Bill Balaskas, Margarita Bofiliou,
Veronique Bourgoin, Nicos Charalampidis, Cleopatra
Charitou, Gioula Chatzigeorgiou, Despina Chatzipavlidou &
Anthi Mouriadou, Tim D'Agostino, Christina Dimitriadi,
Giorgos Drivas, Nayia Frangouli,
Karen Finley, Alexandros Georgiou, Andrea Geyer &
Sharon Hayes, Klio Gizeli, Eva Giannakopoulou, Marion
Inglessi, Dionysis Kavallieratos, Peggy Kliafa, Panos Kokkinias, Georgia
Kotretsos, Aristeidis Lappas, Manolis Lemos-Daskalakis, Irini Linardaki,
Aristeidis Logothetis, Olga Miliaresi - Foka & Despina
Damaskou for SPAGHETTO , Giorgos Papafigos, Hara
Piperidou, Vassilis Salpistis, Panos
Sklavenitis, Efi Spyrou,
Marilia Stagkouraki, Giorgos
Stamatakis, Panos Tsagaris,
Chrysanne Stathakos, Stefanos
Tsivopoulos, Steve C. Harvey,
Ashley Hunt, Richard Kamler, Renee Magnati, Ilan Manouach,
Daina Mattis, Juli Susin, Mischa
Twitchin, Lydia
Venieri, Vangelis Vlachos,
Antonis Volanakis, and Mary
Zygouri.
Exhibition Brief: The Right to Breathe
In dialogue with the The Right to Silence?, the second
iteration of the project at UNDERCURRENT.NYC, takes as a
starting point the "shortness of breath" derived from the
experience of political pressure, social injustice and economic
austerity, exploring its connection with poetics, live art and
embodied politics. The concerns driving the "I Can't Breathe"
debates around race, discrimination, and violence have been left
unconfronted for far too long. At the same time, the countless
social injustices and the politics of disposability that the
COVID-19 pandemic lays bare expose the delusions of a post-racial
society, as well as the deprivation of the right to breathe
(Mbembe). The topic of breathability that the exhibition
identifies and aims to historicize, also provides an insight into
the on-going revaluation of criminal justice reform.
Participating Artists:
Chloe Akrithaki, Tonia
Andrioti, Elaine Angelopoulos,
Antonakis (Christodoulou),
Athanasios Argianas & Hughes
Rowena, Yota Argyropoulou / Michalis
Konstantatos (Blindspot Theater Group), Christos Athanasiadis, Manolis Baboussis,
Evangelia Basdekis, Rania
Bellou, Abdelkader Benchamma, Emmanuel Bitsakis, Angeliki Bozou, Christina
Calbari, Rafika Chawishe, Thalia
Chioti, Mat Chivers, Katerina Christidi,
Dionysis Christofilogiannakis, Lydia Dambassina, Seeva Dawne,
Martha Dimitropoulou, Chris Doulgeris, Dora
Economou, Jessica Feldman, Karen Finley, Dimitris Foutris, Mona Gamil, Maria
Georgoula, Eleni Glinou, Nella
Golanda, Kyriaki Goni,
Delia Gonzalez, Efi Haliori, Zoe
Hounta, Ashley Hunt, Lakis &
Aris Ionas: The Callas, Elias Kafouros, Lizzie
Kalligas, Eleni Kamma,
Athanassios Kanakis, Eirini
Karagiannopoulou, Ismene Karyotaki, Zoe Keramea, Ilias Koen, Vana Kostayola, Chrysanthi
Koumianaki, Sia Kyriakakos, Aspassia
Kouzoupi, Karolina Krasouli, Dimitris
Lamprou, James Lane,
Anna Laskari, Jenny Marketou, Maro
Michalakakou, Yolanda Markopoulou,
Eleanna Martinou, Despina
Meimaroglou, Fryni Mouzakitou, Anna
Muchin, Eleni Mylona, Margarita Myrogianni,
Mariela Nestora, John Newsom, Alice Palaska, Malvina
Panagiotidi, Maria Papadimitriou,
Euripides Papadopetrakis, Nikos
Papadopoulos, Helene
Papadopoulou, Natasha
Papadopoulou, Ilias Papailiakis, Aemilia Papafilippou,
Elli Papakonstantinou (ODC
Ensemble), Tereza Papamichali, Joo Yeon Park, Eftihis
Patsourakis, Anastasia Pelias,
Elena Penga, Antonis Pittas, Tula
Ploumi, Artemis Potamianou, Marina Provatidou, Mantalina Psoma,
Irene Ragusini, Duke Riley,
Georgia Sagri, Nana Sahini, Ismini
Samanidou, George Sampsonidis, Katerina
Sarra, Erica Scourti, Martin
Sexton, Christina Sgouromiti, Vouvoula Skoura, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Danae Stratou, Stephania
Strouza, Vassiliea Stylianidou, Antonis
Tsakiris, Filippos
Tsitsopoulos, Alexandros
Tzannis, Brandon Woolf, Nana
Varveropoulou, Alexis Vasilikos,
VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas &
Kostas Tzimoulis), Nikolas
Ventourakis, Eugenia Vereli, Vassilis
Vlastaras, Maro Zacharogianni, Katerina Zacharopoulou,
Theodoros Zafeiropoulos, Eleni Theodora
Zaharopoulos, Lilia
Ziamou, and Dimitris
Zouroudis.
Performative Intervention @ Seneca Village Central Park on
May 14, 2021, from 6-7 p.m.
Complementing the above
exhibitions, curated by Dr. Sozita
Goudouna, Invocations: Retracing Seneca is a
participatory walk paying homage to Seneca Village, conceived by artists
Kimiyo Bremer and Karen
Finley. A majority of Seneca
Village was composed of African American residents, many of
which owned their own homes. From 1853-1857, the city used
eminent domain and police force to destroy and brutally demolish
Seneca Village for the development
of Central Park. The Seneca residents were forced to disperse
with little archives maintained by the city to preserve this
remarkable hamlet from the pre-civil war era. The walk will
invoke ritual, retrace steps while offering recognition of these
historic New Yorkers.
Production Partners: Eva Kostopoulou, Odette Kouzou
& Antigoni Papadopoulou
Media Manager: Aris Asproulis
(greeceinus@gmail.com)
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