The Short Message Service

About the artist/s:

Jackson Castiglione is a performer, producer and writer working in both live and screen based mediums. He has studied Theatre Arts at Curtin University and producing for film and television at the Victorian College of the Arts.

He has been a core member of pvi collective since 2001 working on numerous projects. These have included; tts: australia, tts: recruit and reform. He has also created and performed in numerous comedy projects including; I’m cumming all the time (PICA), post/man (The Bakery) and How to Become a Better Person (PICA). Jackson has also worked as an actor for Black Swan and Barking Gecko theatre companies and the Awesome International Children’s Festival. Additionally Jackson has performed in the TV series Street Smarts 2 and short films Making Poison, Always There and Directors Cut, along with producing the short films, Drop Bear Dreaming and The BBQ. He is currently co-creator and performer in the web series PrisonPals supported by Courthouse Arts and selected for the ‘Stitch comedy development initative’ with Film Victoria.

Mish Grigor is a Sydney-based artist. She is one third of the performance group post whose work has been seen across Australia. In 2009 post premiered Shamelessly Glitzy Work at Performance Space, Sydney, before touring to Brisbane Powerhouse and Melbourne’s Arts House. The piece was developed through residencies at Bundanon Trust, Culture LAB, and Performance Space. Their work Gifted and Talented won Best Performance at the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Awards, as well as the Adelaide Fringe Touring Award. In 2008 they were Kickstart recipients in the Next Wave Festival and presented Swimming Home in Heels. They are currently in development for their next show ‘Who’s The Best?’, through a Rough Draft residency at Sydney Theatre Company. In 2008/9 Mish was awarded a Spark mentorship to observe the work of director Bruce Gladwin. In 2009 Mish participated in the Splendid Arts Lab, leading to a commission for the 2010 Splendor in the Grass Festival, collaborating with visual artist Lauren Brincat. Mish is co-director of The Imperial Panda Festival, a festival of new works of theatre by young artists presented in non-traditional venues across the inner city of Sydney, which was nominated for Timeout Sydney’s Music Art and Culture’s SMAC of the Year Award. Mish is also co-director of Quarterbred, a resident ARI of PACT Theatre focused on finding funding, residency and performance contexts for emerging artists working in hybrid or experimental forms. The Quarterbred directors also co-curate the Tiny Stadiums Festival, and were recently named on the list of Sydney’s Top 100 Creative Catalysts by Creative Sydney.

Leah Selton is a performance-maker who works as a solo artist and as an artistic collaborator. Originally dance-trained, she has a diverse performance background, including over a decade working in the intense Actor Training Method of Tadashi Suzuki. She toured nationally and internationally with physical theatre company Frank Theatre, playing mad and powerful heroines such as Lady Macbeth and Ophelia, in Switzerland, Wales, US, UK and Australia.

Leah is a core member of dance-theatre ensemble Polytoxic, whose signature style is inspired by the traditions of the Pacific, the guts of physical performance and the crimes of pop-culture. Polytoxic has played to packed houses across Australia, including the Sydney Opera House, and internationally in Vanuatu and Canada. Leah is also co-founder of The Brides of Frank, a tight dynamic ensemble of five females who create intense satirical performances incorporating sophisticated choreography with highly theatrical characterizations.

As a solo artist, Leah creates physical performance work that is highly visual, theatrical and absurdist. Her adoration of design, illusion and the darkly absurd has seen her squash her whole body inside a suitcase, die onstage at least 132 times, and most recently tour throughout Holland and Belgium as a guest performer with the divas of La La Parlour.

Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart is a new media creative director working across a range of creative disciplines; from theatre and dance, to public happenings and interactive digital events.

As part of an ongoing creative investigation into a variety of digital / spatial intervention technologies, his recent digital works include A Someone Else’s Problem Field (Federation Square / Next Wave Festival TimeLapse ’09), Dial D For Disaster (‘09 Format Festival / Adelaide Fringe Festival), Suburban Giants (‘08 Feast Festival, Electrofringe ‘09), and video artist on Bedroom Dancing (‘09 Come Out Festival, Restless Dance Theatre).

He is currently developing a commission for the Australia Council initiative: Splendid Arts Lab, to create a large-scale immersive smart phone augmented reality work for the 2010 Splendour In The Grass music festival, titled The Hive.

Through a variety of recent professional development opportunities in cross art form work, Lachlan has been able to continue to develop innovative systems of interactivity within a number of creative contexts. These opportunities include: Splendid Arts Lab (’09 Australia Council, Performance Space), Time Place Space 6 (’09 Australia Council, Performance Space ’09), and Crossover (’09 Adelaide Film Festival, Film Australia).

Teresa Crea works across media as a writer, director and creative producer. She has a background in theatre, radio, film and live arts/inter media.

Her work spans grass roots popular and participatory, to contemporary and experimental live art events. She has commissioned and directed projects in performance, live art and installation/ media. Her works have been presented nationally and overseas in the UK, Singapore and South America. She is currently completing a PHD via creative practice investigating narrative and cognition in emerging artistic practices and technology.

More information:

The Short Message Service was developed, in part, through Time Place Space, an interdisciplinary hybrid arts lab initiated through the InterArts Office of the Australia Council for the Arts, and produced by Performance Space.

The Short Message Service was assisted through HotHouse Theatre’s A Month in the Country residential program, funded jointly by Albury City and The Myer Foundation.

This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.