jacksoncastiglione[@]gmail.com
About Jackson Castiglione (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, film, podcasts and public art. His practice regularly celebrates ‘ordinary people’ in the creation and performance of original works that are collaborative and process oriented.
Guided by a sense of curiosity and open-endedness, Jackson’s work as a director and creative content producer champions community, the voices of children and perspectives that are playful, subversive and life-affirming.
Jackson lives in Naarm (Melbourne).
Working with young performers Jackson is currently directing Anything & Everything scheduled to premiere at RISING Festival in 2022. He has also collaborated to adapt The Dispute conceived by Mohamed El Khatib in which children tell the stories of their parent’s separation for RISING Festival 2021. An interventionist performance for a children’s dance competition Rainbow Leprechaun! A live chat show featuring child hosts with Born in a Taxi and co-created and directed two seasons of the podcast series Kids Vs Art.
Jackson has also co-directed Show & Tell, a short documentary made in collaboration with 10 children which screened at KUKI Children’s International Film Festival, Berlin.
He has made and shown work in urban and regional areas both in Victoria and Australia with major cultural institutions such as Rising Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne International Arts Festival, National Gallery of Victoria, Inter-Film Berlin, Federation Square, Arts House, Performance Space and Next Wave Festival.
Jackson’s work has been recognised through awards sharing The Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture (in collaboration with Field Theory) and the SPARK Award for films in Education at KUKI, nominations for Melbourne Green Room Awards and the Streamy Awards (Los Angles, USA). His work has also been selected for presentations in international festivals.
He is a frequent collaborator with Producers Erin Milne and Xavier O’Shannessy at the Bureau of Works and is the Ensemble Director at Platform Arts. Jackson is a co-founding member of the collective Field Theory (2009-) activating civic spaces through experimental site specific performance interventions and was also a core member of pvi collective (1999 - 2010).
In the pipeline Jackson is developing a performance based project with Rawcus about momentous events in people’s lives for Arts House and a performance about the death of rock and roll with Scott Price for Back 2 Back Theatre.
