★★★½☆ Anouk van Dijk offers astonishing complexity through a fusion of movement and film.

Chunky Move Studios, Melbourne
May 27, 2016

At the core of all great art is a restless enquiry; a searching, questioning intellect that interrogates some facet of the human experience and in doing so, reveals something of its mystery. Anouk van Dijk is an artist whose creativity is unquestionably driven by this same bristling urgency. In fact, it’s sometimes driven at such a breakneck pace that it’s tough for an audience to keep up.  

Her latest work, LUCID, is a study of staggering multiplicity, although it’s premise is, on paper at least, easy enough to grasp. Joining the in vogue trend for integrated camera work on stage (it seems to be mandatory for any new production opening in Melbourne in recent months), LUCID explores our human relationship with screens, and the transposition of our three-dimensional reality into the carefully edited, augmented 2-D fantasy of film and television. Through a combination of clever camera trickery, superbly crafted lighting (by Ben Cobham), and some low-fi FX, this incredibly innovative piece of physical theatre examines how the screen can warp our most primitive...