Kãisãró
Diroa
Kãisãró Diroá
RESISTANCE PERFORMANCE
I express my resistance through art
The resistance that Kãisãró performs in art is often called activism, but the performer questions this definition. For the multi-artist, the word "activist" has been appropriated and imposed by an external view, from non-Indigenous people, which, once again, places Indigenous people in a position that makes more sense to white people than to Indigenous people themselves. For Kãisãró, Indigenous people do not choose to be activists, but rather are born activists; that is, resistance is a natural consequence of their existence as Indigenous people. Therefore, Kãisãró chooses not to be called an activist, despite knowing that what she does is a type of activism.
IN-PERSON PERFORMANCES
BLITZ: NIKAMUKORA VALLEY (2015)
Group performance
Alberto Penkauskas Cultural Center and Dyoá Bayá Arts Group
Kãisãró Diroá actively participated in the creation of the performance “Blitz: Vale do Nikamukora”, along with other non-indigenous artists and the Dyroá Bayá Arts group. The performance was produced in 2015, directed by Luiz Vitalli, director of the Cia Pombal cultural space.
Location: Manaus, AM
Year: 2015
PÊ'TTÍÍA'NÃWE – EXTERMINATION (2018)
Original solo performance
Diversity Pub - Black and Indigenous Lives Matter
Created in 2018, this performance challenges the power structures that threaten indigenous existences. The work is traversed by the voice and body of Kãisãró Diroá, who reminds us: “The forest is very important, it is my home (...) But unfortunately everything is ending and I am losing my home.”
Starting from this feeling of imminent loss, the performance uses the body as a device for denouncing physical and cultural genocide. An act of presence that confronts the audience with the reality of environmental and human dismantling, reaffirming that, as long as there are bodies, there will be territory and resistance, sharing the responsibility for the planet with the audience present.
Technical specifications
Performer: kãisãró Diroá
Visual conception and thought: kãisãró Diroá
Location: Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo - SP
Year: 2018
Acknowledgements: Yoann Guerin, Anderson Kary Bayá
PÏÏADÍAPOA - TWO FACES (2019)
Original solo performance
Theater Refinery Presentation - São Paulo
PÏADIÁPOA marks Kãisãró Diroá's first collective creation in collaboration with the Artes Dyroá Baya group. The work delves into the complexity of indigenous identity as it moves between two worlds: ancestral territory and the concrete jungle of the metropolis.
The performance explores the "two faces" of survival — the preservation of traditional knowledge and the confrontation with urban structures. Through rigorous visual thinking and shared movements, the group challenges the duality between being and seeming, the sacred and the profane for other people.
Technical specifications
Artists: kãisãró Diroá, Ermelinda Yepario, Anderson Kary Bayá, Sandra Nanayna, Severiano Kedasery, Melinda
Visual conception and thought: kãisãró Diroá
Duration: 40 minutes
Year: 2019
Rating: Suitable for all ages
NO to PL490 (2021)
Solo artistic performance, original composition - Paulista Avenue
In 2021, Kãisãró Diroá staged an artistic protest on Avenida Paulista against Bill 490, demonstrating the significance of this law for indigenous people.
Technical specifications
Performer: kãisãró Diroá
Visual conception and thought: kãisãró Diroá
Production: Kãisãró Diroá, Dan Scan
Duration: indefinite
Year: 2021
Location: Paulista Avenue
Acknowledgements: Maíra Mesquita, Sandra Nanayna, Rosa Peixoto
DÍ (blood) RESURGENCE
(2022)
Original solo performance
Solo exhibition featuring women
The work explores the resistance and reclaiming of the powerful identity of native women, lost in the processes of erasure of Indigenous peoples through colonization and patriarchy. The term "Dɨ," which means blood in the Tukano language, drives a narrative about the vital force that survives patriarchy. Through symbolic rituals, songs, and scenic objects, the artist evokes the rebirth of knowledge and bodies that the system attempted to silence, transforming pain into a manifesto of presence and continuity of the voices of Indigenous women in Brazil.
Technical specifications
Performer: kãisãró Diroá
Visual conception and thought: kãisãró Diroá
Production: kãisãró Diroá
Assistant: Day Nunes
Duration: 40 minutes
Year: 2022
In-person performance: Women's solo show
Rating: 16 years
Location: Mungunzá Container Theater
VÍDEO ARTE
FENCED (2021)
Solo original video art piece
Women in the Crossing Festival – Crossing
In this video art piece, Kãisãró Diroá proposes a reflection on the barriers that limit life and freedom. The work stems from the perception that, historically, we have been conditioned to "live in our own little box," accepting restricted spaces without questioning.
For the artist, this normalization of space and body is a silent form of geographical violence. CERCADOS captures this state of suspension, suffering becoming landscape, using the camera to expose the tension of bodies inhabiting these boundaries. It is an invitation to awaken, a movement to realize that the "square" assigned to us is not our rightful place, but a construct of control that needs to be broken.
Technical specifications
Performer: kãisãró Diroá
Visual conception and thought: kãisãró Diroá
Production: kãisãró Diroá
Duration: 7 minutes
Years of image production: 2019, 2020, 2021
Rating: 10 years and up
Acknowledgments: Yoann Guerin and Keila Sankofa
ASPHYXIA (2021)
Original solo performance
Black Theatre Festival Sao Paulo
"Asphyxia" (2021) is an original solo performance by Kãisãró Diroá that uses the lack of air as a critical metaphor for dehumanization and profit-driven destruction of nature. Through projections and physical action in the present, the work denounces a humanity heading towards its end, prioritizing capital over harmony with life. Presented at the São Paulo Black Theatre Festival, the performance is a vital cry of warning about the real dangers surrounding our modern existence.
Technical specifications
Performer: kãisãró Diroá
Visual conception and thought: kãisãró Diroá
Production: kãisãró Diroá
Assistant: Rosa Peixoto (São Paulo)
Assistant: Yoann Guerin (Amapá)
Duration: 30 minutes
Year of production of the overhead projector images: 2020 to 2021
Rating: Suitable for all ages
Acknowledgements: Yoann Guerin