award-winning artist-researcher, curator and producer of cross-genre projects bridging performance and digital art, AR/XR, documentary storytelling and political activism

inst @vvllsv | [email protected] | [vlsv.gay](<https://vlsv.gay>)

paris/tbilisi | en/ru

Recent projects

2025: BIRDS (site-specific performance)

2025: PLASTIC MEMORIES / IGRUSHKI vol. 1&2 (sculpture series)

2025: SOLDIERS SPEAKING (video piece on military corporeality)

2024: VLSV FST (online festival of immersive and documentary projects on contemporary wars)

2024: AS AN EARTHQUAKE (autofiction documentary on intertwining of human intimacies and catastrophies)

2024: MONUMENTOMANIA (documentary movie & immersive project about visual politics of war memorials and monuments | ArtDocFect 2025 Official Selection)

2023: How Long Is War (digital performative lecture made in Unreal Engine — about how war is changing time and how wartime affects human identities)

2022: New Types of Weapon (cross-genre documentary about contemporary wars, how they’re waged and what theory and technology of new wars could tell us)

[full list of projects](<https://vlsv.gay/tout>) | [visual portfolio](<https://vlsv.notion.site/vitya-vilisov-visual-portfolio-57188de2af274256b21ba1a40699bce8>)

Author of books

2022: *Postlove: The Future of Human Intimacies* (AST publishing house)

2019: *It Makes Us Sick. How Theatre Became Contemporary and We Didn’t Notice* (AST publishing house)

Work for institutions

2019—2022: Curator and lecturer of fortnight site-specific performance modules at Part Academy (partner of Meisner Institute in US)

2019: Curator of performance laboratory SHIFT for Taganka Theatre in Moscow, showing 35 performance works from regions of Russia

2019: Curator of theatre screenings program for KARO Art Cinema

2018—2020: Theatre and performance editor in Moscow-based Afisha Magazine