Artist, Researcher, Writer
b. 1990
based in Patna-Saheb [old Patna], Bihar
+91 9007573208
email: zeropowercut@gmail.com , kashyap.piyush@gmail.com
website: zeropowercut.work
Education
2009-2012 Graduate Diploma— Digital Video Production; Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology; India
Work Experience
2022-Present Inter-disciplinary Artist
2019-Present Inter-disciplinary Researcher [fieldwork & theory based research on anti-caste expression, philosophy & folk culture]
2013-2018 Crew, Audio-Video Technician, Editor, and VFX-artist for Independent Cinema and Time-Image based Art Projects
Awards, Fellowships & Artist Residencies
2026 The Sociological Review: Image-Maker in Residence; London, UK upcoming
2025 Cittadellarte – UNIDEE Residency Module: Languages, Please — Word-Barricade; Biella, Italy
2025 Making Unmaking Research Fellowship; awarded by Maraa Media & Art Collective, Bangalore, India
2024 International Studio & Curatorial Program, awarded by Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation; New York, USA
2023 Emerging Artists Award, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Arts w/ Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation; New Delhi, India
2023 Arthshila-Parivartan Residency w/ Foundation for Indian Contemporary Arts; Bihar, India
2022 Serendipity Arts Residency; Delhi, India
Lecture-Performance & Research-Presentations
2025 Hekh; New Delhi, India
2024 International Studio & Curatorial Program [ISCP]; New York, USA
2024 Listening Academy; Sarai—CSDS (Center for the Study of Developing Societies); New Delhi, India
Open-Studios, Exhibitions, Screenings & Events
2026 Form Flux Film: Evolving Practices in Contemporary Moving Images; INTERSECTIONS: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation; Arthshila, New Delhi, India
2025 Objects, Obscurity and Conflict; curated by Prof. Y. S. Alone; Gallery OED, Kochi, India
2025 Secular Art Movement: Mahaparinirvana Diwas; curated by Secular Art Movement; Mumbai, India
2025 they can’t make it (Live Stream: original & traditional song performance followed by discussion) w/- uncanny stations & The Listening Biennial; From Farhada, Bhojpur, Bihar, India
2025 The Listening Biennial (Third Edition); curated by Alecia Neo, Soledad García Saavedra, Suvani Suri with Brandon LaBelle; Worldwide: Errant Sound (Berlin), TheCube Project Space (Taipei), soundpocket (Hong Kong), Centro de Arte Moderna-Gulbenkian (Lisbon), Aural Pluralities (London), Hangar (Barcelona), Transients (Seoul), TheCube Project Space (Taipei), Scuola Piccola Zattere (Venice), and more
2025 Breathing (with) History; curated by Bihan Das; Indian Museum, Kolkata, India
2025 Eros Is A Rose; Accent Sisters; curated by Collen Dalusong; New York, USA
2025 Notes from abroad, a mobile exhibition; Kulturbahnhof; curated by Mandy Gehrt; Leipzig and Landkreis; Germany
2024 Stone Flowers; curated by Maraa Media & Art Collective; at Goethe Institut; Bangalore, India
2024 Collective Display; (curated by) Athens Art Book Fair; Athens, Greece
2024 However an Image Enters; Vadehra Art Gallery w/ Foundation for Indian Contemporary Arts; curated by Vidya Shivadas; New Delhi, India
2024 Spring Open Studio— International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
2023 Remembering Gaddar, curated by Maraa Media & Arts Collective; Bangalore, India
2023 Falling through the signal, curated by —out-of-line—(Suvani Suri & Radha Mahendru) supported by Public Art Grant of Foundation for Indian Contemporary Arts, Delhi, India
2023 jangayek.txt (Live Stream: original & traditional song performance followed by discussion) w/—out-of-line— & Foundation for Indian Contemporary Arts, Delhi, India; From Patna-Saheb, Bihar, India
2022 Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India
2022 Open Studio— Serendipity Arts Residency; Delhi, India
2022 Notes on Tending; Foundation for Indian Contemporary Arts at India Art Fair; curated by Vidya Shivadas; Delhi, India
2022 Kanike Zine Festival, Bengaluru, India
Publications
2026 The unspoken taboo of art or why the unintelligible is crucial for annihilation of caste [Essay]; SCREEN; NY-US & Taiwan upcoming in April
2025 bare-minimum-cinema [Video]; Call 2, Hekh; India
2024 an interview with naach artist [Audio]; Poorvanchal & Palayan; supported by Serendipity Virtual Grant; India
2023 a scene from where you live [Visual Art]; Elephant in the Room; Conflictorium; India & Stroom Den Haag; Netherlands
Workshop Participation
2025 Secular Art Movement, Pune, India
2024 Excavating the Ellipsis; Conflictorium & Prince Claus Fund; New Delhi, India
2021-2022 Propositions: No Goggles For Earth Rise; Onscreen & For All Vahavatti; Reliable Copy (Bangalore, India) & Gallery Ark (Baroda, India); Online
Short Review
2024 Tactics as Manifesto; Art India; Volume 27; Issue 02; 2024; Arushi Vats
Projects, Exhibitions & Screenings— as Technician, Editor & Cinema/Sound/Time-Image Maker
2025 A Night Walk; for artist: Huang I Hsiang; Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei
2024 ArCuRea, Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute; curated by Ashish Rajadhyaksha; Kolkata, India
2018 The New Medium III: Multi-Screen Cinema, 20th MAMI Film festival, curated by studio.camp; Mumbai, India
2018 To the Borewell Taal; for artist: Prerna Bishnoi; Heimdal Kunstforening; Norway
2017 Tah-Satah: A very deep surface; Between Film and Video; curated by Ashish Rajadhyaksha; Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India
2016-2018 Taking The Horse To Eat Jalebis (Feature film); for filmmaker Anamika Haksar; as Post-production Supervisor, Designer, Visual Effects Artist, and Assistant Editor; Film-Festivals: Released 2021, MoMA Doc 2020, Sundance New Frontier 2019, Int. Film Festival of Kerala 2018, and others
2014-2015 Brahman Naman (Feature film); for filmmaker Q; as 2nd Assistant Director; Film-Festivals: Sundance New Frontier 2016, Edinburgh Int. 2016, and others; Bangalore & Kolkata, India
2014 Public Service Films, Department of Labour, Karnataka Govt. w/ GIZ, German Development Cooperation, as Researcher and Screenplay Writer; Bangalore, India
2013-2014 Ajab-Shahar— Kabir Project: Folk Music Archive; India
2013 First National Students Film Award & Students Film Festival of India; FTII; Pune, India
2013 Cut.in-Film Festival, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS); Mumbai, India
2012 Labour In A Single Shot by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki; Germany