THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY speaks to Sozita Goudouna, Founding Director of Greece In USA

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Greece in USA is a non-profit organization with a global reach that promotes knowledge of contemporary and ancient Greek Culture while fostering international cultural cooperation, experimentation and social engagement. The organization's extensive programming includes commissioned artists' and curators' projects, residencies, educational and ecological initiatives and the commitment to cultivating a sensible culture of innovation and thought leadership.
 

We are dedicated to offering innovative and unique programs in education and the arts, all exploring the evolving diversity and richness of Greek and Cypriot cultures. The non- profit organization seeks to generate new thinking about the arts and promote cross- cultural dialogue through partnerships and new platforms of creation.
 

The organization promotes international exchange of practice and knowledge in the arts - visual and sound art, dance, architecture, theatre - research on the methods used in curatorial  and performing practices and investigation of points of intersection between the arts, science and the public sphere by means of interventions, collective actions, educational programs and publications. 


Greece in USA aims to collaborate and build long-lasting partnerships with leading institutions and individuals who actively engage with Greece and its culture and to convey a comprehensive and distinctive representation of Greece and Cyprus by producing cultural and educational programs that encourage intercultural dialogue and enable cultural involvement.
 

Our principal goals are:
 To shape and envision the image of contemporary Greece in the United States beyond existing stereotypes
 To recalibrate the assumed center of Greek national narratives to include those who have often been denied historical recognition.
 To transform the way Greek histories are told and produce projects that reflect the vast, rich complexity of Greek culture.
 To support Greek inspired cultural practices by welcoming and nurturing new ideas and influential perspectives
 To commission, produce and present contemporary Greek and Cypriot culture that grapple with many of the pressing social and political issues of our time
 To foster Greek scholarship and cultural research within the American educational system
 To develop a transatlantic network for the exchange of culture and ideas
 To strengthen the development of structures in cultural policy & leadership, and foster worldwide mobility.

 

Greece in USA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization registered in the State of New York, tax-exempt ID no. 85-0828531. Contributions to Greece in USA are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Greece in USA's launch is under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture.

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    Filippos Tsitsopoulos

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    Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Athens 1967, is a painter, installation, video theatre and performance media artist who has worked in the field of interactive theatre installation art exploring the limits of performance as well as in painting since 1990.  His practice engages the spectator in a new theatre or rather a system of including theatre as a catalyst of our daily life concepts. He is applying these concepts to visual arts and observing the effects they can produce in the "image" as plasticity behaviour.  His video installations have been exhibited in a numerous exhibitions, art fairs and events. Filippos lives in London and in Madrid. His installation and performances are widely known in a several important exhibitions worldwide such as : The Serpentine Gallery, FACT Liverpool, The Bluecoat, in Frieze Art Fair London, in Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, twice in the Tate Modern, in Toynbee Studios and in Artsadmin, in CGAC de Santiago de Compostela, at the Chelsea Theatre in London, among others

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