LIZN’BOW Transform Times Square into a Futurist Dreamscape with Their Largest Public Art Project to Date

Midnight Moment | September 1–30, nightly 11:57–Midnight
Inflatable Sculpture Installation | September 20–27
Live Performance | September 23 at 10:30pm

(NEW YORK, NY — August 31, 2026) — This September, TimesSquare Arts is pleased to present the largest public art project to date by the Miami-based artist duo LIZN’BOW, transforming Times Square into Niñalandia, the artists’ expansive parafictional universe. The multi-part presentation features the premiere of LIZN’BOW’s MidnightMoment video work, a monumental installation of inflatablesculptures, and a live performance with support from Puerto Rican artist collective Poncili Creación. Together, the projects immerse one of the world’s most recognizable spaces in a vibrant ecosystem where the boundaries between the digital and physical, artist and audience, performance and everyday life begin to dissolve.

Developed over a decade of collaboration, Niñalandia is LIZN’BOW’s ever-expanding universe, bridging reality and fiction. Rooted in queer and Latinx futurisms, characters and communities adapt to climate change,technological transformation, and uncertainty through humor, mutual care,creative resilience, and collective celebration. Across flooded dreamscapes,rainbow portals, floating milk jugs, mythical creatures, and an always growing cast of family, friends, and collaborators, fantasy becomes a tool for altering reality and imagining how we might live together differently.

Presented nightly from September 1–30, LIZN’BOW’s MidnightMoment, El Mundo es Niña, transforms the public plaza’s electronic billboards into a synchronized portal to Niñalandia.From 11:57pm to midnight, over 100 of Times Square’s screens follow a unicorn cow riding a jet ski, floating milk jugs, islands of money, rainbow portals,and artist Liz Ferrer’s abuela on a flying bike as they drift through purple skies and vibrant dreamscapes, creating a vivid collage that isat once playful, surreal, and emotionally resonant. As personal memories gradually evolve into shared mythology, LIZN’BOW’s ever-expanding cast of characters explore nostalgia, kinship, belonging, and resilience as a means  of envisioning more inclusive futures.

From September 20–27, Niñalandia expands beyond the billboards into Duffy Square through two monumental inflatable sculptures. A 34-foot-long inflatable rainbow rises above visitors, resting on clouds with milk jugs beneath two laughing butterfly dolphins.Nearby,LIZN’BOW’s iconic 27-foot unicorn cow riding a jet ski, enlarged to match the scale and spectacle of Times Square, emerges from rising waters, bringing one of Niñalandia’s most beloved inhabitants into the heart of New York City. Playful, surreal, and unmistakably larger-than-life, the inflatable sculptures translate the visual language of El Mundo es Niña intoa shared public environment, inviting visitors to gather, linger, and momentarily inhabit the artists’ imagined world.

On September 23 at 10:30pm, LIZN’BOW premiere a new live performance, presented with support from Creative Capital Foundation and funding in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Mellon Foundation and additional support from the Doris Duke Foundation.

Performed by the artists’ bilingual feminist reggaeton band Niña, the work expands Niñalandia into a celebratory public performance that merges concert, installation, and performance art. Reclaiming the visual language of reggaeton, advertising, celebrity, and mass media, the performance creates a space for queer joy, cultural resistance, and collective celebration.Special guests, identical twins Poncili Creación, open the evening with their absurdist, large-scale foam puppet performance before reappearing throughout Niña’s live set. Appearing as themselves, the twins become unruly characters within Niñalandia, blurring the boundaries between reality,concert, theater, visual art, and public spectacle.

Together, the performance, video works, and public installation transform Times Square into a shared site of imagination, participation, resistance, and collective celebration. Rather than escaping reality, El Mundo es Niña playfully rewrites it, proposing a femme-centered public world in which fantasy becomes atool for confronting the present and imagining life differently.

ABOUT LIZN’BOW
LIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital) are an interdisciplinary artist duo whose collaborative practice merges performance,installation, music, fashion, and technology to create immersive works within their expanding Niñalandia universe, a “pro-pocalyptic” future where climate change, rising waters, and technological transformation become conditions for adaptation, collective joy, and new ways of living together.LIZN’BOW construct speculative environments that blur the line between fantasy and reality, spaces where cultural icons, pop media, and personal mythologies become one. Their practice centers Niña, their femme reggaeton band, as protagonists in their universe. Through a queer and comedic lens, their work transforms the language of American and Latin pop into sites of humor,resistance, and reinvention.

LIZN’BOW started after the artists unexpectedly met at a party in Chicago in2015, where Bow was working as a human lamp. Since then, they have built a life together that continues to shape their artistic practice.

Their practice has been supported by Creative Capital Foundation, The Knight Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Oolite Arts, Locust Projects, and numerous national organizations. Their work has been presented at museums, festivals, and public art venues throughout the United States and internationally. Their Times Square Arts project is followed by a residency at Shandaken Project at Storm King Art Center.

ABOUT PONCILI CREACIÓN
Poncili Creación is a surrealist performance art collective founded by the identical twin brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro. Their work blends puppetry, decorated vehicles, experimental music, progressive politics, and community participation. The collective frequently uses rough, inexpensive, or discarded materials to create sculptural creatures and environments that come alive through human movement and interaction.

“Poncili” is a made-up word, but for the brothers  it carries a very specific meaning, incorporating ideas such as Chaotic Tranquility, Beautiful Nothingness, and Raw Magic.

Founded organically circa 2013 and developed with an international cast of collaborators, Poncili Creación has toured widely throughout the United States,Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland,the Netherlands, Italy, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and China. Though their work has the most impact in nontraditional venues, Poncili Creación has also been performed at such art spaces as MoMA PS1, Hauser and Wirth, Aspen Art Museum, La Jolla Playhouse, the Center for Puppetry Arts, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, the 2024 Material Art Fair in Mexico City, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.

ABOUT TIMES SQUARE ARTS
Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance,collaborates with contemporary artists and cultural institutions to experiment and engage with one of the world's most iconic urban places. Through the Square's electronic billboards, public plazas, vacant areas and popular venues,and the Alliance's own online landscape, Times Square Arts invites leading contemporary creators, such as Charles Gaines, Joan Jonas, Jeffrey Gibson,Pamela Council, Mel Chin and Kehinde Wiley, to help the public see Times Square in new ways. Times Square has always been a cultural district and place of risk, innovation and creativity, and the arts program ensures these qualities remain central to the district's unique identity.

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