Vicki Kyriakakis Vicki Kyriakakis

Your social media presence might eat you alive

The pressure to chase clout and attention online is leading to adverse impacts on our ability to build the communities and connections we crave. It’s called brandification and audience capture. Let’s talk about it.

PUBLISHED IN THE AGE, 26 JULY 2023

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Vicki Kyriakakis Vicki Kyriakakis

Want to Make Art? You Better Be Rich.

Wages are low, work insecure and funding has been gutted. Amid a cost-of-living crisis and a pandemic, are we about to lose a swathe of artists to obscurity? How Australian culture locked out the working class.

PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA, 16 MAY 2022

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Vicki Kyriakakis Vicki Kyriakakis

Being Single For 12 Years Ended Up Shaping My Identity

Without realising it, that lonely decade became a slow reclamation. Free of obligation to anyone but myself. My time as a single woman was crucial to discovering who I really am.

PUBLISHED IN SBS VOICES, APRIL 2021

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My Parents Sent Me To Greece When I Was Two

Mum tells me of how she flew to Melbourne from Adelaide just to see me for five minutes before I flew away. All these years later, I still grapple with what it means for my sense of home and identity.

PUBLISHED IN SBS VOICES, 20 OCTOBER 2020

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