Presentations

▪ Presenter, Diaspora Performing Material Practices of women’s ritual, Conference Intersectional Materialisms: Diversity in
Creative Industries, Methods and Practices, Maynooth, National University of Ireland, August 26-28, 2024
▪ Panel moderator/presenter After the Deluge: New Harvests, NCECA Annual conference, Sacramento, USA, Mar 18, 2022
▪ Panel presenter, Art making as Spiritual Practice, NCECA Annual conference, Cincinnati, USA, Mar 18, 2021
▪ Panel member in Uphaar: Objects of Love Symposium, RMIT, Building10, Bowen St., Melbourne, March 14, 2020
▪ Presenter, Annual Conference Australian Council of University Art &Design Schools, Melbourne, Australia, Nov 31, 2019
▪ Presenter, NCECA Annual Conference, Minneapolis, USA, Mar 28, 2019 https://claystation.com/video/culture-within-liminal-space/
▪ Panel presenter, Ways of Shifting: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Arts, 23 Oct 2019
▪ Panel presenter, CAST OUT LOUD: Cracks in the gates — aesthetics, craft and community, 11 Sept 2019
▪ Presenter, SFAI 140 Public event, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, Mar 15, 2019
▪ Presenter, Rituals of the In-Between, 2018 NCECA Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, Mar 16, 2018
▪ Artist in Residence, Presentation, Anderson Ranch Art Centre, Colorado, USA, Feb 12, 2016

Publications

▪ Kanagasundaram V (2025). Eagle from Beyond, Tis time Tis Time, short listed 2026 Nillumbik Contemporary Writing Poetry Prize
▪ Kanagasundaram V (2024). ‘The vernacular of the diaspora_க ோலம் (Kolam) re-imagined’, Book 2.0, 14:1, pp. 137–50
http://doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00110_1
▪ Kanagasundaram V (2025). Performing the Material Poetics of Migration: a (re)Imagined threshold ritual of Tamil women, [PhD dissertation], RMIT University, La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Australia https://research-repository.rmit.edu.au/articles/thesis/Performing_the_Material_Poetics_of_Migration_a_re_Imagined_threshold_ritual_of_Tamil_women/27677127?file=50674635
▪ Kanagasundaram V, Daly T, Dallabrida D and Bassett M C, ‘After the Deluge: New Harvests’ (2022). NCECA Journal, USA, 2022, Volume 42
▪ Briggs P, Nameth Bren H, Carter B and Kanagasundaram V (2021). ‘Art Making as Spiritual Practice’, NCECA Journal, USA, 2021, Volume 41, p158-159
▪ Kanagasundaram V (2021). ‘Ritual of Shared Moments’ in 2021 NCECA Multicultural Fellowship Exhibition, 22 February – 21 March, DAAP Meyers Gallery, University of Cincinnati, NCECA Exhibitions 2021 Catalogue,107-108, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, USA
▪ Exhibition catalogue 2020, Objects of Love, Craft Victoria, Watsons Place, Melbourne, Australia, March 12- May 13, 2020
https://d3cjdqkw0dn1sk.cloudfront.net/media/documents/460_CRA_ObjectsOfLove_Cat_V41.pdf
▪ Kanagasundaram V and Beynon K (2020). Ceramix, The Australian Ceramics Association Exhibition 2020 Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney NSW, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, April 2020 Vol 59 (1) https://australianceramics.com/assets/jac-591-ceramix-catalogue-lr.pdf
▪ Kanagasundaram V (2020). ‘Something Happened Here_Journey of 1000 Chai Cups’ in The Burdens of History, 1 March-31 March, Glave Kocen Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, NCECA 2020 Annual Exhibition Catalogue, 54-55, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, USA.
▪ Kanagasundaram V (27 February 2020). ‘The nine-yard sari: Bolts of love in clay’, Uphaar: Love Objects, Garland Magazine, Issue 18, World Craft Council. https://garlandmag.com/article/bolts-of-love/
▪ Kanagasundaram V (2019). Culture within Liminal Space, NCECA Journal, USA, 2019, Volume 40, p158-159
▪ Kanagasundaram V (31 October-1 November 2019). ‘Culture and the Liminal space: investigation of threshold ritual practice of migrants from South Asia and position of the feminine translated to creative practice in clay and performance’, 2019 ACUADS Conference: Engagement, Melbourne, Australia. https://acuads.com.au/conference/conference-2019/
▪ Kanagasundaram V (24 October 2018). My own private mosque ✿ Clay activation by Varuni Kanagasundaram, Garland Magazine, Loop, World Craft Council. https://garlandmag.com/loop/my-ownprivate-mosque-%E2%9C%BF-clay-activation-by-varuni-kanagasundaram/