M R Vishnuprasad is a poet and performance artist. Vishnuprasad situates his art as a synthesis of writing 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 Lecture Performance, Videopoetry, Martial Zoomorphism, Spatio-Emotional Mapping, and Text Making. Highlighted by a critical interest in body traditions, as sites of epistemic and corporeal explorations, his research projects and performance practices engage how embodiment shapes the poiesis of knowledge and senses.

M R Vishnuprasad holds a postgraduate degree in Environmental Sciences and has been awarded PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. With three anthologies to his credit, he has been writing poetry in Malayalam, a south Indian language spoken in Kerala. Since 2015, his poetry performances and art works have been shown in Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2023) and galleries, including 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.