In her performances, Miss Pink Dinosaur addresses the apparatus reproducing anoriginal Greekness while speaking about the institutional, formal and reproductive particulars of higher education that aspiring artists receive in Greece. This is a performance about Greekness as the cradle of whiteness, ranging from 19th century hymns to the Glory of Greece that were foundational to the colonisation of the Americas to marblewashing of the Greek Civil war, to the biopolitics of the heteronormative modern body in relation to the Greek statues, standpoint narratives from the endangered species of the feminist art teacher in Athens and reflections on the Learning form Athens of documenta 14. Some singing too.

Cast
Teacher: Despina Sevasti
Students swan chorus: Vasso Anagnostopoulou, Manos Bazanis, Anastasia Diavasti

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Despina Sevasti is an artist and educator usually based in Athens. She is working with performance, text, painting, video, photography, sound, and whatever else makes sense, trying to queer her long time obsessions: The ideology of “Greekness”, “crisis”, “white democracy”, the politics of teaching, feminism, archaeology and other fun stuff. She has pursued her studies at the Dutch Art Institute (MA Art Praxis), Goldsmiths College (MA Contemporary Art Theory), Athens School of Fine Arts (BA Sculpture) and the University of Athens (BA Archaeology & History of Art). Despina has been teaching Art Foundation classes, painting, art history & theory in a variety of educational institutions in Athens since 2002.