Photo by AlkaloideDaniela Huerta's artistic practice treats sound as both compositional and archaeological. Working across performance, spatial sound, and site-responsive installations, she places listening at the center of her work as an active process, one that shapes perception, identity, and memory.
Her current research focuses on mythology as a living archive of collective knowledge, with particular attention to obscured feminine figures associated with chthonic power. Rather than understanding myth as narrative symbolism to be restaged, she translates its internal logic into contemporary sonic forms, bringing ancient wisdom into dialogue with speculative sound fiction.
She has presented her work internationally at venues and festivals including Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Casa del Lago, Museo Carrillo Gil, MUTEK Montréal and Mexico, CTM Festival, Heroines of Sound, Berghain, Neue Nationalgalerie, Silent Green, Kiezsalon, among others.
Her commissioned work includes projects for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Orsay, MOCA Geffen Warehouse, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and arteBA. She has held residencies at EMS Stockholm, BEK, MONOM Berlin, Université de Montréal's Laboratoire formes · ondes, Morphine Raum, Goethe-Institut, and Amplify Berlin.
She has released music on Other People, Concentric Records, Tsuku Boshi, Karlrecords, Kashual Plastik, Petites Planètes, and Elevator Bath. Her forthcoming album as Huerta Ensamble, will be released on Elevator Bath in 2026.
She has collaborated with artists including Soundwalk Collective, Lucrecia Dalt, Iván Argote, Vincent Moon, Ash Fure, Ale Hop, Ali Demirel, Perila, and Cornelia Pierce. Her current projects include KOAXULA, a collaboration with Colombian artist Natalia Escobar that reimagines feminine archetypes through mythological narratives; Huerta Ensamble, a collaborative project with Concepción Huerta focused on synthesis and magnetic tape; and WILDING AI, a public experiment exploring speculative AI futures through large language models.
Huerta is a Mexican artist working between Berlin and Mexico. She holds a BA from Central Saint Martins, London, and is certified in Deep Listening through the Center for Deep Listening, founded by composer Pauline Oliveros.
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