Fagner Lima ~ Keywords: playful, anticolonial, revolution, blackness, history, silliness + seriousness

Fagner Lima is a game designer, writer, and performance artist. With a background spanning ux design, cinema, literature, circus and theater, his practice focuses on the role of play as a tool for connection, learning, and change. He is particularly interested in how games can translate complex systems into accessible experiences, supporting new ways of thinking about collaboration, decision-making, and future possibilities.

He is using acting and performing as a way to deliver text and data, weaving heavy topics in playful gestures. His artistic research blends history and personal struggles to generate an invitation to actions: art as a method for resistance and social transformation.

*Learn more about Fagner Lima's 20 minute performance The pure entertainment TV Show! for DAWN SEEDS ~ DAI's Aeroponic Acts 2026 at Centrale Fies in Italy. 

*Learn more about Fagner Lima's written MA thesis (DAI, 2026): Quilombo and resistance to black erasure in Brazil

*During their journey with DAI, Fagner Lima made significant contributions to: COOP Summit 2025 ~ Invitation to Actions: Ensembling, Sincering, Transmitting as well as COOP SUMMIT 2026 ~ Be a little slow, a little late. (Re)fusing. (Im)printing. Conspiring.

* Fagner Lima was an esteemed 2025-2026 member of the DAI's COUNCIL

*Follow Fagner's 'Life after DAI' via his instagram