Anthology of the New Depression
Since the beginning of 2021, artist Dorian Wood has recorded a different cover song every Friday for her Patreon subscribers, telling her story through the works of others. Over 100 songs (and counting)…
2023 Festival Projects
Get to know the 2023 Fusebox Festival Projects listed below (alphabetically)
Art Cruise 2023
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…
Contranyms (A Performance Ritual)
Remember in the not-too-distant past when American citizens from the far, far left and far, far right who were caught posting violent rhetoric online were sent to Chant Camps? The camps were supposed to…
Department of Transformation: Opening Night Talk with Prem Krishnamurthy
Department of Transformation Day 1: Three Scales What is the transformative potential of art? How can art and design create change at the individual, collective, and structural scales? On Day 1 of Department…
Department of Transformation
How can art be transformative for individuals, groups, and society? What are strategies for transforming art in the future? Polymathic designer Prem Krishnamurthy explores these and other questions in…
Dream States
The work of five animation artists takes us on a fascinating journey to explore the pursuits of human connection and our relationships to technology & infrastructure, the natural world, and personal…
Dyke Night
Salvage Vanguard Theater & Beth Schindler Dyke Night featuring Rachel Mars and other raucous queer magic. More info coming soon!
Explosioncita
A collaborative and fully integrated hybrid live performance between dreamy tropical electronic band Balún and the experimental puppetry art collective Poncili Creación mixing sounds and sights into…
Games Y’all April Meetup
Games Y’all is a casual monthly meetup for indie video game developers, digital artists, and games-as-art fans. We celebrate, amplify, and support the unique and underrepresented within indie games and…
Ghost Line X
Spatial audio, sometimes referred to as surround sound, expands sound and music outside the bounds of a typical two-speaker stereo system. The Rolling Ryot experiential arts collective has continually…
High Gothic Pageantry LLC: Orientation Conclave
It’s 1423. A massive medieval pageant is being planned to celebrate the arrival of Blessed John of Chiaramonte’s incorruptible corpse. The event will take place at our local cathedral, Our Lady of…
I am at my best when I’m escaping
The exhibition, I am at my best when I’m escaping, delves into the artist’s fascination with power objects, coded symbols, migration, rituals, and faith. Rubin employs ceramic conical forms, raised…
Magna Mater
“Hair is one of the first parts of our bodies to be removed – cut – by colonisers. In a way, this act of wounding, of laceration, is a prerequisite for assimilation. I often wonder: Where…
Ommatidium
Ommatidium explores our complicated relationship with the insect world. The show investigates the darkly humorous marketing of chemical agents to safely annihilate, the extreme championing of aesthetically…
(RHY)PISTEMOLOGY! (OR, TO KNOW THROUGH THE RHYTHM)
Part III: (RHY)PISTEMOLOGY! (OR, TO KNOW THROUGH THE RHYTHM), the third installment in Michael J. Love’s The AURALVISUAL MIXTAPE Collection, sees the tap dance artist and an ensemble of collaborators…
Rinse
Produced by Performing Lines *********************************** of course whitefellas try to acknowledge things but they do it wrong they say before we begin I’d like to pay my respects not understanding…
Shore Art Excursion
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. As…
Sonic Meditation for Solo Performer
(For Pauline Oliveros & Alvin Lucier) “Sonic Meditation for Solo Performer” reimagines the college marching band as a tool for sonic meditation. The project examines themes of healing,…
Surrogate: Performance In Progress
The Surrogate project began with offering myself in a 40 week performance where I’d serve as a gestational surrogate for a parent who would have an app to monitor and control me 24/7. What I eat, what…
The Beauty of Life and Death II
The Beauty of Life and Death II is Jaylen Pigford’s second solo exhibition of paintings at Ivester Contemporary. In this latest series of work, Pigford carefully places familiar symbols that he has referenced…
The Director
At a time when dying costs an average of $10,000 and funerals happen within a week, death can seem like a very expensive drive-thru meal. The Director is a bold new performance starring charismatic ex-funeral…
The Semi-Modulars
The Semi-Modulars is an electronic music group made up of students in the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired’s synthesis and sound design class. Founded in 2013, the group utilizes…
The Small Black Museum: Vol. II
The Small Black Museum Residency Project was launched in 2021 as a way to further align the Carver Museum and Cultural Center’s work with its mission to preserve and exhibit African American material…
(Workshop production) CHRIS GRACE: AS SCARLETT JOHANNSON
Chris Grace, America’s 88th-most beloved Chinese actor, celebrates the life of the greatest Asian-American actor of all time: Scarlett Johannson. Exploring both Chris’s and Scarlett’s biographies…
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