MAANILA SANTOS DE MORAES
Multimedia Artist | Video Artist | DJ | Sound Designer
With 25+ years of experience in audio-visual performance, her work occupies the space where digital precision meets raw human narrative. Specialized in weaving together Audiovisual Installations, Stage Design, Animation, Video Mapping, and Object Design, she uses the "glitch" and the technical artifact as tools for political and social inquiry. Her practice is deeply collaborative, frequently intersecting with queer-feminist movements, body autonomy, and post-colonial narratives.
Wearable Statements against Patriarchal Structures. Reclamation and revaluation of a slur.
Graphic Design and Political Branding. Streetwear as Manifesto.
(Ongoing since December 2025)
Dance/ Lecture-performance by Claire Lefèvre. imagetanz 2024, brut nordwest, Vienna and CPA Salzburg 2025.
Dancers Helena Araújo and Evandro Pedroni join DJ Ironica los Culos in a dynamic fusion of movement and live sound for Kultursommer Wien 2025.
Dance Performance by Mzamo Nondlwana. Entanglements of migrant realities and queer-feminist visions.
brut nordwest, Vienna (AT).
(April 11–14, 2024)
Transdisciplinary project and lecture-performance. An exploration of the legal Anthropocene, integrating academic research with artistic perspectives.
Peformed: Berlin (DE) 2023
Amsterdam (NL) 2024
Vienna (AT) 2025
Using words as weapons, KDM Königin der Macht declares war on patriarchy.
A collaborative project with the Wiener Festwochen as part of the exhibition "Liesl Raff – Liaison." Vienna (AT) 2023
Experimental Video Art.Visual inter-pretation of a two-year collaborative lexicon exploring decoloniality and collective care, developed within the Smashing Wor(l)ds exhibition and research platform. kulturen in bewegung 2023, Vienna (AT). (Feb 07)
Cultural Practices for Inventing Vocabularies. Role: Music, Content Production, and Video Mapping. Belvedere 21, Vienna (AT). (June 30, 2022)
Lalala: Little Show – Children's show by Marissa Lôbo. Role: Video Mapping, Content Production, and Performance. Little Show Online (AT). (Dec 19, 2021)
Online Show. Role: Stage Design & Video Mapping. Contribution: Visuals for a narrative "Underwater Club" featuring global FLINTA* artists, merging live performance with technical empowerment and intersectional discourse. Vienna (AT). (Dec 10)
Online Show. Role: Stage Design & Video Mapping. Contribution: Visuals for a narrative "Underwater Club" featuring global FLINTA* artists, merging live performance with technical empowerment and intersectional discourse. Vienna (AT). (Dec 10)
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