Step Into the Unexpected at INVERSE Festival 2025
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What happens when artists stop playing it safe?
Find out this December when INVERSE Festival returns to Bentonville for its tenth year. Four days of live performance art that asks hard questions, experiments with new forms, and invites you to experience something you won’t find in a traditional gallery setting.
Here’s what you need to know.
THE DEETS
📅 December 11–14, 2025 | 12:00PM – 09:00PM
📍 The Momentary, 507 SE E St, Bentonville, AR 72712
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What Makes This Festival Worth Your Time
Since its founding in 2015 and first festival in 2016, INVERSE became a platform where artists experiment with liveness, push formal boundaries, and confront the issues shaping our world through the immediate, unfiltered medium of live performance.
The festival seeks artists in constant interrogation of material, form, and gesture. This means work that employs radical approaches to offer new perspectives on how we experience the world. From longtime performance art followers to curious newcomers, INVERSE creates space for work that challenges, inspires, and provokes. Expect pieces that make you uncomfortable, inspired, curious, or all three at once.
This December, that lineup comes to life over four days. You’ll encounter performances that challenge your assumptions, push against traditional formats, and invite you into direct dialogue with the work and the artists behind it.
Between performances, explore downtown Bentonville. Grab coffee, wander the area, then return for the next show.
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