Secret of the raft

update 2022

‘Secret of the Raft’ crew teamed up with Cardinia Shire Council and RMIT School of Design for an extended showcase and production for the show. The development of further scenes was done utilizing the newly released Unreal Engine 5 to achieve hyperreal visual quality for absolute immersion.

After the preproduction work was done courtesy of Creative VIC Grant in 2020, the team developed illustrations for all scenery in the script and used that as a reference to develop the full quality scenery for the performance.

‘Secret of the Raft’ is a bilingual theatrical experience, which combines 3D projection mapping and set design to explore where live performance and digital animation collide. It challenges the audience’s perception of history while immersing in modern-day digital media.  

‘Secret of the Raft’, originally titled ‘Les Mystères du Louvre’, opens the world of art and language to a young audience by immersing them in a multi-sensory experience which brings to life an iconic artwork, Géricault’s ‘The Raft of the Medusa’. The work invites the audience to explore the themes and history expressed in this painting and to help them grasp their relevance to contemporary events and issues such as racism and the refugee crisis. The underlying message is that works of art belong to all and speak to all, not just the society from which they originate. 

RMIT 2019
The initial showing of this work was successfully conducted on the 14th of September, 2019 in the Black Box at RMIT.