INVERSE Performance Art Festival 2025
INVERSE 2025 Open Call is LIVE
INVERSE 2025 is a four-day performance art festival in Bentonville, Arkansas. Employing liveness, experimentation, and radical approaches to the important issues of our moment, the festival seeks artists and projects who are in constant interrogation of material, form, and gesture to offer new ideas and perspectives to how we experience the world.
The INVERSE Performance Art Festival, taking place December 11–14, 2025, marks ten years of INVERSE. INVERSE began in 2015 in Northwest Arkansas, with its first festival in 2016. This December marks ten years and ten festivals.
INVERSE continues to offer an open call for proposals to broaden the network of artists making and performing in Northwest Arkansas. We welcome proposals no matter your experience or practice.
We encourage artists from across forms to submit proposals for performance. See application for full details.
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ABOUT INVERSE
The inclusive performance art platform INVERSE was co-founded by Crystal Bridges and the Momentary Curator of Performance Cynthia Post Hunt and Chief Curator of the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art Emma Saperstein. INVERSE strives to foster local dialogue about performance on an international scale and build a community of performance artists and supporters, providing opportunities for performance work to be cultivated in the community. The annual INVERSE Performance Art Festival began in 2016 and has been warmly received in its two host locations: Northwest Arkansas and San Luis Obispo, California.
