Ep 9 - Colour signifies culture with Kitiya Palaskas

Kitiya Palaskas is Greek/Thai, and a 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