Daniela O. Guerrero, known as NINA NINA, is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and educator from Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Her work reflects on the politics of pleasure, joy, radical imagination, parties, and rituals, using art and technology as tools for liberation. As a musician with national and international reach, NINA NINA fuses rhythms from the Veracruz coast and various parts of the world, incorporating elements of queer music and experimental electronic sounds. Through powerful rhymes and chants, accompanied by drum machines, effects, and synthesizers, she creates impactful performances aimed at audiences who love to party.
With nearly fifteen years of experience in teaching, NINA NINA has been dedicated to offering music, dance, and performance classes, as well as creating spaces for gathering, learning, and reflection for women and diverse communities. Her career has taken her to participate in talks, concerts, and workshops in Mexico, the United States, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Spain, and Cuba. Additionally, she has collaborated with prominent organizations such as UNESCO, UNAM, the Institute for Women of Mexico City (CDMX), the National Laboratory of Oral Materials, the Ford Foundation, Nike, Spotify, the Feminist Encounter of Latin America and the Caribbean, among others. Some of her projects have received fellowships and grants by FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund, Hispanics for Philanthropy and Global Fund for Children.
In 2023, she was selected to participate in the OneBeat program by FoundSound Nation, supported by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. During this program, she completed a music residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and went on tour across Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, culminating at the Toulouse Theatre in New Orleans. In the summer of 2024, she received a full tuition scholarship to study at the School for Poetic Computation to explore how to create live musical experiences based on digital synthesis, sampling, networks, and generative algorithms.
In the fall of 2024, she was awarded the prestigious Jóvenes Creadores grant from the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA), Mexico's leading cultural institution.
In addition to her musical endeavors, NINA NINA serves as the creative director of MANIFIESTACIONES, a platform dedicated to dance, music, and parties that champion pleasure and economic justice for women and queer artists. MANIFIESTACIONES creates opportunities for marginalized communities, promoting equity both on the dancefloor and beyond, with the motto: “one foot at the party, one foot at the protest.”
Her work focuses on exploring methodologies that allow diverse communities to imagine and develop new collective pleasures, facilitating parties, rituals, and workshops that promote enjoyment, overcoming physical, emotional, and energetic barriers that prevent us from truly enjoying, through music, dance, performance and technology.