Dr. M R Vishnuprasad

Dr. M R Vishnuprasad is a poet and performance artist. He has been awarded PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi. Vishnuprasad situates his art as a synthesis of writing, making and performing poetry through oral, textual and digital mediations to bring composed attention to the contemporary moment. Considering poetry as form and medium, and the possibilities of performance as poiesis, he uses a range of experiments in his practice, such as Video Survey, Lecture Performance and Text Making. Recently he has been awarded DC Books Golden Jubilee prize-2024 for his débutant novel 'Mathias'

Since 2015, his poetry performances and art works have been shown in Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (2023), Vienna; Kochi-Muziris Biennale-2022; Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, India (2022); Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India (2020 and 2019), KHOJ International Artists Association, New Delhi, India (2018); Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, New Delhi, India (2016). He was an actant in Five million Incidents (FMI-2020) conceived by Goethe Institut, New Delhi in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective.