PLATFORM ENSEMBLE

“We are infinity, and we are the Platform Arts ensemble.”

infinity are a group of artists aged 12 to 23 from across Victoria who have our creative home in Geelong. The ensemble is made up of 7 young people and who work with director Jackson Castiglione. infinity make performances and screen content that help to make sense of the cultural and political shifts we are all negotiating. They are young and they are leaders. Often inviting other creatives and technical people to collaborate.

The infinity ensemble started in the most improbable of circumstances, during the COVID pandemic of 2020 in April. How could a group of strangers make art together when they weren’t allowed to meet?

”Well, we started meeting online, getting to know each other, becoming friends, working out what is important to us. Then we started thinking about how we want to be seen, the things that interest us and the sort of art we want to make. Currently we explore thematics that allow us to claim space like identity, agency, ageism and using technology to manipulate these things. We continue to meet weekly, through the end of the world and back again, gaining commissions and presentations with art festivals like RISING (Melbourne) and The Substation (Newport).”