Produced by artist duo LIZN’BOW (2023 Creative Capital Awardees), Novelas de Niñas is a bilingual feminist reggaeton concert unfolding inside Niñalandia, a pop-heavy universe shaped by music, mass media, and collective fantasy. Part installation and part interactive theater, the work flips familiar entertainment formats by placing femme, queer, and latin performers at its center. Loud, playful, and unapologetically confrontational, Novelas de Niñas channels collective release from global crises as an act of feminist becoming. Operating through a “pro-pocalyptic” lens, the work treats collapse not as an ending but as an opening, where new forms of joy, agency, and communal imagination can emerge.

Performed live by Liz and Bow’s reggaeton duo Niña, the show blends concert intensity with video art, music, and audience interaction. Songs anchor the structure while characters, images, and power dynamics shift around them. What starts as recognizable spectacle moves subtly throughout the show toward excess, humor, and instability. Familiar modern media tropes such as brand sponsorship, ads, and pop stardom are pushed toward absurdity, not as parody but as a strategy for rupture, allowing outdated narratives around gender, success, and visibility to crack open in real time.