Andie Flores & Sam Lavigne
Andi & Sam collaborated in conjunction with The Museum of Human Achievement to realize the work shared here in Fusebox’s The It’s NOT Fair. Title: The APD Decruitment Initiative Medium: single-channel…
2022 Festival Artists
Get to know the 2022 Fusebox Festival Artists listed below (alphabetically)
ASUNA
ASUNA is a Japanese sound artist. He has been creating experimental music and installation work since a very young age. He has gone on to become a pioneer in the experimental ambient / drone / improvisation…
Austin Opera + Washington National Opera + Collaborators
Austin Opera Serving Central Texas since 1986, Austin Opera inspires audiences with its trademark blend of innovation and artistic excellence. With the leadership of General Director & CEO Annie Burridge…
Belial
Belial is stage name of multidisciplinary artist/ musician Matty Zarate. Their works explore themes of autonomy, spirituality, ritual, and technology. Exploring how the marriage of the cybernetic and…
Cande Aguilar
Cande worked with grayDUCK Gallery to realize the work shared here in Fusebox’s The It’s NOT Fair. Title: barrioPOP, Between Mars & Earth Medium: multimedia installation Description…
Chris Cogburn
Chris Cogburn (b. 1973 Eugene, Oregon) is a percussionist living in Austin and Mexico City. Cogburn’s artistic practice is rooted in the collaborative context of improvisation. His current music practices…
CHRISTEENE
CHRISTEENE is a raw spirit of ferocious music, unabashed sexuality, and fiery intimate stank. Reports from live shows describe inexplicably powerful musical experiences, distressed choreography, macabre…
Cruz Ortiz
CRUZ ORTIZ—–AMERICAN, Born in Houston, Texas 1972 Cruz Ortiz is an American Contemporary Artist who uses multiple mediums examining connections to nature, hope, healing, beauty, endurance, and…
Dorian Wood & Thor Harris
Dorian Wood Dorian Wood (pronouns: she/they) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Using subject matter informed by their own perspective as a non-binary brown person, a child of Costa Rican…
Erin Cunningham
Erin Cunningham (b. 1979 Honolulu, HI) is an artist living and working in Austin, Texas. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003 and an MFA in studio art from The University…
Ezra Masch
Ezra Masch is a visual artist and musician from Philadelphia. He creates immersive and interactive installations that break down barriers between sonic and visual artforms. His work has been featured in…
Future Front
Future Front is a 501c3 nonprofit, homegrown in Austin. Outside of their flagship spaces, they host year-round workshops and meet-ups, as well as curate resources for resilience in creative industries….
Gesel Mason
GESEL MASON is a choreographer, performer, educator, and arts facilitator. She is Artistic Director for Gesel Mason Performance Projects and Associate Professor of Dance and Choreography at the University…
Golden Hornet
Golden Hornet’s mission is to reimagine classical music through collaborative creations & adventurous programming with commitments to justice and innovation. Drawing on the collaborative spirit of…
Graham Reynolds + Coka Treviño + Felipe Pérez Santiago + Orión García
MXTX was curated by: Graham Reynolds (Austin, TX), Coka Treviño (Monterrey, MX / Austin, TX), Felipe Pérez Santiago (Mexico City, MX), and Orión García (Austin, TX) Graham Reynolds Called “the…
Henna Chou
Henna Chou is a sound explorer with experiences living in Tucson, AZ; Overland Park, KS; Berkeley, CA; Ames, IA; Beijing, China; and Montpelier, VT. Chou is a volunteer with Church of the Friendly Ghost…
hiba ali
Hiba worked with Austin’s Black Mountain Project to realize the work shared here in Fusebox’s The It’s NOT Fair. Title: curses Medium:1080 HD Video, blue cornflowers, glass and…
ICOSA Collective
ICOSA collaborated as a collective to realize the work shared here in Fusebox’s The It’s NOT Fair. Title: The New Landscape Medium: XPS foam, metal leaf, acrylic, mylar, and digital media Description…
Jay Roff-Garcia
Jay worked with Co-Lab Projects to realize the work shared here in Fusebox’s The It’s NOT Fair. Title: Vuelca Mapas Medium: Transmedia, Sculpture, and Installation Description of the project: Vuelca…
Juliana Huxtable
Using the structures of music as mediums in her multi-media universe, Juliana Huxtable is a DJ and musician singular in her approach. Where her visual art and poetry navigate the complexification of desire…
Kale Roberts
Kale Roberts explores queer potentialities through community, material, body and performance. As a southern queer, failure and resilience is expanded through explorations of sports culture, community…
Kayla Farrish
Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts is an emerging company combining filmmaking, storytelling, dance theater performance, and sound score. The company has been commissioned by Gibney Dance Inc (2020-2021),…
Kenyon Adams
Kenyon Adams is an interdisciplinary artist and creative director. Through performance-based practices, he seeks to reclaim or expand embodied ways of knowing, towards imagining and constructing sustainable…
Leyya Mona Tawil
Leyya Mona Tawil [Lime Rickey International] is an artist working with sound, performance, and hybrid transmissions. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. Tawil uses voice,…
Mai Gutierrez
Mai Gutierrez (1987, Monterrey, MX) is a multi-disciplinary architectural designer and artist living in Austin, TX. She earned her BFA and Masters in Architecture from the Savannah College of Art and Design…
MASS Collective
Mass Gallery collaborated as a collective to realize the work shared here in Fusebox’s The It’s NOT Fair. Title: MISMATCH Medium: mixed media Description of the project: Their collaborative…
Mattie
MATTIE is a mirror. She is an oracle of the SOL, and a watchperson over the keys to liberation guiding your experience via modalities of introspective visuals, lyrical self-inquiry, melody/harmony, experimental…
Michael Anthony García
Multidisciplinary artist & independent curator Michael Anthony García, claiming both Mexican and US citizenship, is based in Austin, Texas, and predominantly focuses his practice around photography/…
Michelle Devereaux
Michelle Devereux is an artist born and raised in Dallas, Texas and has been living and working in Austin since 2005. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Bard College in 2004. She currently works…
Milo Tamez
Drummer composer Milo Tamez has been a leading voice in the advancement of creative drumming expression for decades in México. He adapts a wide background in percussive languages and artistic perspective…
Mónica Vega
Mónica worked with Big Medium to realize the work shared here in Fusebox’s The It’s NOT Fair. Title: Todas Las Banderas Fueron Hechas Para Verse / All Flags Were Made To Being Seen Medium: mixed…
Parham Daghighi
Parham Daghighi is an Iranian-American multi-instrumentalist and experimentalist active in contemporary improvised music. Recent focuses include amplified acoustic guitar, drum set, clarinet, and instruments…
Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum
Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum is a trio comprised of vocalist, lyricist, musician and Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning and Emmy-nominated actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet…
Robin Frohardt
Robin Frohardt is an award-winning artist, puppet designer, and director living in Brooklyn, NY. Frohardt’s performance and puppetry-based work has been presented at St. Ann’s Warehouse and HERE in…
Sam Lavigne
Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He has exhibited work at Lincoln Center, SFMOMA, Pioneer Works, DIS, Ars…
Sarah Sudhoff
Sarah Sudhoff is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist based in Houston, Tx. whose work interweaves themes of gender, science, and personal experience through photographs, performance, sculpture, video,…
Sean Ripple
Sean Ripple is an artist, writer, and curator based in Austin, TX. His projects are often improvisational and interventionist in nature and rely heavily on social media and the Internet to frame the outcomes…
SHABOOM!
SHABOOM! created by Silky Shoemaker, Lex Vaughn and Paul Soileau, is a spectacle teetering at the edge of disaster. Sharing a mind of anarchy and absurdity, we create environments and actions of pleasure…
Silky Shoemaker
Silky Shoemaker is a performer, visual artist, and community organizer based in the Bay Area. She makes work that explores the absurdity and profundity of queer life thru painting, curation, and slapstick…
Soomin Jung
Born in South Korea, Soomin Jung relocated to San Antonio, Texas in 2002 to study at the University of Texas San Antonio where she earned a B.F.A. and an M.F.A in Studio Art and Art History. Since graduating…
Steve Parker
Steve Parker is an artist that works with salvaged musical instruments, amateur choirs, marching bands, urban bat colonies, flocks of grackles, and pedicab fleets to investigate systems of control, interspecies…
Sylvan Oswald
Sylvan Oswald is an interdisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles who creates text-based projects exploring trans identity, history, and nonviolent dramaturgy. He is currently creating text for Blood…
The Illustrious Blacks
Once upon a time in a galaxy not far away, there lived two kings. Each was the ruler of his own deliciously glorious planet. The first king, Manchildblack, was well known throughout the cosmos for his…
UTimATX
UTim ATX is a group of graduate students led by Kate Freer from the UT live design & production MFA. As media and experience designers, they create story-based installations that engage, inform, and…
Vinson Fraley
Vinson Fraley was born in Statesville, North Carolina and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He began his formal training in voice and drama at DeKalb School of the Arts. He later picked up dance at the age…