32 Sounds
An immersive documentary and profound sensory experience that explores the elemental phenomenon of sound. From filmmaker Sam Green and featuring original music by JD Samson, 32 specific audio recordings…
Get to know the 2023 Fusebox Festival Projects listed below (alphabetically)
Anito
Justin Talplacido Shoulder’s last Fusebox performance (in 2018) was truly one of the most memorable, revered performances in Fusebox history. This year, as part of our 20th anniversary, we are presenting…
Art Cruise 2024
As a means of showcasing Austin’s vibrant art scene and connecting it to the more performance-based core of the festival, guest curator Michael Anthony García presents this year’s visual arts programming. Ride…
Bill McCullough & Barry Stone
Bill McCullough joins Barry Stone to perform high lonesome music and share photography in the natural reverb of Northern-Southern gallery. In the gallery is Bill McCullough’s solo exhibition, Field…
Canto De Todes
Canto de Todes is an immersive 12-hour composition and installation. Inspired by a lyric of the late Chilean singer and songwriter Violeta Parra, the Creative Capital-awarded project emphasizes the urgency…
Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson
Chris Grace, America’s 88th-most beloved Chinese actor, celebrates the life of his greatest inspiration and the most capable portrayer of Asian lives today: Scarlett Johansson. Confused by the decision…
Cultural Exchange Rate
Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria. One marked by war survival, valueless…
Dark Matter
Men will literally learn astrophysics instead of going to therapy. Part stand-up, part science, Dark Matter is like if Mike Birbiglia and Stephen Hawking listened to Dashboard Confessional. If you’ve…
Fusebox Saturday Night
We want to celebrate with you ol’ school Fusebox style with music, drinks, and good vibes! DJ Cassie will keep us rocking all night, we’ll have plenty of libations (some of them with extra…
g/re/p
Jess Johnson brings to life a complex fictional world through hand-drawn images that are inspired by her interests in science fiction, comic books, technology, architecture, and theories of consciousness….
HOST: Fusebox
This exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of Fusebox. The brainchild of a group of young artist-friends living in Austin in 2005, Fusebox began as a local festival for adventurous performance staged…
Celebrating Fusebox! An Opening & Anniversary Birthday
The public is invited to a free two-for-one at the Jones Center on the opening night of HOST: Fusebox and Fusebox’s 20th anniversary birthday celebration! Be among the first to view the exhibition,…
In The Beginning
In The Beginning is a wild one-woman comedy that follows the exploits of Not Eve, a person left out of the bible, as she reimagines the Genesis story from a totally new perspective using inflatable puppets,…
Open Studio: Becoming Bats
Artist-in-residency: Performance artist and climate justice activist Linh Le Collaboration with MoHA (US) and WH9 (DK) Ambassador of the long-eared bat, will go to Austin, Texas to scream and fly with…
Me Mer Mo Monday: Fusebox Edition
Me Mer Mo has combined forces with Fusebox, The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, The Semi-Modulars, soundcult, and F.L.O.W. (Full Liquid Orchestral Works) to create a night full of avant-garde…
Radioactive Practice
Named one of the ‘Best Dance Performances’ of 2022 by the New York Times. Award-winning choreographer Abby Zbikowski and crew have created a genre-bending work that brings together a mosaic group of…
Revive Youth Festival: Teen Bands Showcase
In the Summer of 2023, five teens from Austin came together to imagine a performance art festival in Austin created for teens and produced by teens. With the support of Deen Rawlins-Harris, current graduate…
Chris Grace: Untitled Work-in-Progress
Chris Grace presents a work-in-progress of his newest show, exploring the impact that death and grief has had on his life and attempts to answer the great existential questions: Why are we here? What is…
Serpent of the Sun and the Moon
Serpent of the Sun and the Moon is a bronze sculpture commissioned by Fusebox and Waterloo Park specifically for the solar eclipse on April 8th 2024. This piece is part of Maravilla’s series of sculptures…
The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body
The VORTEX and Fusebox Festival proudly present the world premiere of The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, a new choreopoem by award-winning playwright and Black cultural studies scholar, Lisa B….
The Forgetting Curve
The Forgetting Curve is a solo show from composer-improviser Graham Reynolds, made in collaboration with Fire Records from London, that instrumentally explores themes of memory and forgetting. Graham…
The Illustrious Blacks + Joseph Keckler
Do not miss out on this double header night of unworldly performances, cooked up for you especially for Fusebox Festival 2024. Opening set by the operatic magician Joseph Keckler with the fantastical duo The…
The Long Way
Josh and Matt want to make a show that explores the theatrical and social potential of treadmills. But here’s the hitch: All of their work developing this show has to occur ON motorized treadmills. For…
The Mex Files: A Divination Ritual
La Pocha Nostra is thrilled to present excerpts from their most recent performance manuscripts and bank of ritual actions. Utilizing a casino roulette and several tarot decks, Balitronica utilizes various…
The Stars Hold Our Stories
Anticipating the Solar Eclipse, a stellar vessel has appeared in Austin and opened a portal into its ever expanding cosmic archive. Navigating the cosmos in search of stories from different people, cultures,…
The Universe in Verse
Created and hosted by writer Maria Popova, The Universe in Verse is a charitable celebration of science and the wonder of reality, winged with poetry and music. Every spring since 2017, thousands of…
Total Eclipse Viewing Party
In celebration of the first total solar eclipse in Austin, TX since 1397, the Long Center and the Simons Foundation, as part of its In the Path of Totality initiative, are hosting a FREE eclipse viewing…
Way of Water: Onion Creek
The Way of Water: Onion Creek – El Camino de Agua: Onion Creek A performance featuring the Onion Creek watershed and the work of people who steward it. The Way of Water is a global arts-based project…