Colour signifies culture with Kitiya Palaskas

Being Biracial

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 [e-mail]