• Colour signifies culture with Kitiya Palaskas

  • Jun 26 2024
  • Length: 54 mins
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Colour signifies culture with Kitiya Palaskas

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  • Kitiya Palaskas is a Greek/Thai multi-disciplinary designer living in Naarm.

    We chat about:

    • Discovering her mix through DNA testing
    • Her art sabbatical in Thailand
    • Turning 40 and entering a new phase of life
    • Having an identity crisis
    • Can you appropriate your own culture?
    • Feeling seen in colours, plants and precarious piles
    • Growing up moving around the world
    • Your bedroom as home
    • Being ethnically ambiguous
    • Family as a complicated site for cultural connection
    • Greek statues were colourful!

    Links:

    https://kitiyapalaskas.com

    https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/color-chromophobia-and-colonialism-some-historical-thoughts-185710

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture

    https://www.npr.org/2022/07/12/1109995973/we-know-greek-statues-werent-white-now-you-can-see-them-in-color

    Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson

    Guest: Kitiya Palaskas

    Music by: the Green Twins

    Edited by: Kate Robinson

    This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nations.

    You can find us on Instagram @beingbiracialpodcast or send us an email at beingbiracialpodcast@gmail.com


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