🔥 The wait is over — the 2026 artist lineup for Fusebox Festival is officially LIVE. 🔥
After two decades as an annual tradition, Fusebox now unfolds as a biennial burst of art, ideas, and connection. From April 15–19, 2026, we’ll gather across Austin, activating theaters, galleries, parking garages, parks, and unexpected spaces with performance, installation, music, and conversation.
We invite you to come be a part of it.
Tickets available at fuseboxlive.com or at link bio
And That’s A Wrap! The first Fusebox Biennial is officially in the books. ❤️
Thank you to the artists who shared their vision and their stories, and in the process asked us to think more deeply about the world we share and how we might care for one another inside it.
Thank you to our crews, collaborators, and partners. Sharing your resources, your space, and your belief in Fusebox allows us to bring the festival to life.
And of course, thank you to our audience. We bask in your energy and excitement. Thank you for joining us for this first edition of our biennial, and for believing that gathering with artists and community can grow creativity, imagination, and a better world.
📸 by @bysarahannie and @shunyacarroll
A few of my favorite moments from my live A/V piece with pedal steel guitarist @bobhoffnar for the Quad Quad event at @dadalab.io during the 2026 @fuseboxlive Festival
Curated by @grahamreynoldsmusic the event featured four electronic artists, each building a quadraphonic set with pedal steel.
It was a pleasure to work with Bob over several weeks while I designed a quad setup in Ableton (using some @c74connect devices) to process the pedal steel and pair it with audio-reactive visuals in @touchdesigner
This is a binaural mixdown of the original 4-channel piece, so listen on headphones for best results.
Full length 16:9 video is on my YouTube page, linked in my bio
Big thanks to Bob for diving into the experiment and to Fusebox for supporting work like this
Video shot by @vvilmstock 🙏
Get ready for the May Fusebox Artist Salon on May 21st at 7pm!
Keep the vibes flowing from our first biennial festival as we close out our salon season with our May featured guests, space-makers, and shakers:
⚡️Laura Gutiérrez (@laura_g_gutierrez )
⚡️Ed Weston (@edward.weston_ )
⚡️The Country Fried Dance (@countryfrieddance )
⚡️Jason Neulander (@jasonneulander )
This salon we are reflecting on space: stewarding ever-shifting spaces in our city with integrity and queer joy to the front; spaciousness in individual practice that germinates the spark of fresh ideas; and the space we collectively share in transformative live experiences.
Get your tickets today in the bio and come spend the evening with the Fusebox community for drinks, thoughtful conversation, and boogie beats! 💙
(Fusebox Members check your email inboxes for your free RSVP codes 😉)
Just saw Naomi Rincón Gallardo’s Versos de Porquería / Verses of Filth at @fuseboxlive with @outsiderfest last night. Absolutely wild!!! Scavengers, detached arms, and vultures rising from decay, protesting and connecting. Naomi’s work hits hard with necropolitical vibes about marginalization. Queer, decolonial, and totally unforgettable! 🙌
Music and dance by Enrique Arriaga and Venese Medovich Alcantar.
Curated by @laura_g_gutierrez
Shoutout to @erikameichua for letting me know about this event! I wouldn’t have caught it otherwise. Really nice seeing you again last night. 🫶
Come to everyone’s favorite resonant parking structure tomorrow to hear 30+ channels of rainforest sounds. I’ll be biking speakers around on a pedicab.
1401 San Jac // State of Texas Garage A
presented by @rollingryot & @fuseboxlive
LET’S DO THIS DAMN THING! @evicshen at @colabprojectstx is TONIGHT! Presented in partnership with @fuseboxlive . Curated by @difabbulous . Sliding scale tickets available via the 🔗
“A Performance by Victoria Shen”
Inside Mark Flood’s exhibition
“Buddy Can You Spare a Meme”
Saturday, April 18th, doors at 8pm, performance at 9pm
Co-Lab Projects, 5419 Glissman Rd
Sponsored by @austinbeerworks and @titosvodka
Get sliding scale tickets at the 🔗
Victoria Shen (A.K.A. Evicshen) is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco. Shen’s practice is concerned with the materiality of sound and its relationship to the human body through a lens of disruption and experimentation. She creates and manipulates custom-built sculptures and extensions specific to her body to challenge conventional methods of sound production and erode the boundaries between performer, tool, and audience.
Shen will perform in dialogue with a new exhibition by Houston-based artist Mark Flood, “Buddy Can You Spare a Meme” inside Co-Lab’s Culvert Gallery. Together, Flood and Shen operate on the same adversarial frequency. Both artists weaponize humor and chaos against established systems—he through visual mockery, she through sonic assault. Where Flood asks you to laugh at the art world’s absurdities, Shen makes you feel the discomfort of sound pushed past its breaking point. Neither artist offers you comfort or easy answers. They offer you a mirror, amplified and distorted, reflecting back the ridiculous machinery of contemporary culture at volumes impossible to ignore.
This project is sponsored in part by @heb and @txcommarts
Day 3 and there is still so much to see, so many artists to discover, so many moments waiting to unfold. Come back. Stay out late. Take a chance on something new. Let the Fusebox Festival surprise you.
Morning walks. Gorgeous dance performances. A conversation with Annie-B Parson and Jad Abumrad, guided by our dear friend Brian Rogers. Opening nights that stayed with us long after the curtain fell. And a late-night celebration at our hub with the irresistible, unstoppable, joyous, hilarious LIZN’BOW (Novelas de Niñas).
If you’ve been with us, you know the feeling. If you haven’t yet, this is your sign to jump in and join us! Link in bio for ticketing schedule. 🎟️🎟️
Like a shooting star in the big Texas sky, the rare, strange, and wonderful show that was @dirtyprojectors Song of the Earth with @austinsymphonyorchestra has us feeling inspired, curious, and mostly just happy to be here 💫
Thank you to our friends @fuseboxlive and @austinsymphonyorchestra for teaming up with us to make this performance happen! Be sure to check out the rest of Fusebox Festival through April 19 for more fantastically weird experiences.
📸: @maggie_boyd
