Bundanon

Rhi (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, visual designer, and lighting technician based in Boorloo (Perth), who makes fun, weird, genre bending art. Rhi completed a BA in Performance Studies in 2015 (Curtin University). Rhi’s previous creations include The Jellyman (The Blue Room Theatre, 2020), Survive the Apocalypse!! (TBRT Online, 2020), The Big Dark (TBRT, 2018), and Shout Lab (Crack Theatre Festival, 2016). Previous lighting designs include Squared Off (Offbase Dance, 2024, Fridays Studio), Homeward Bound (Lazy Yarns, 2022, TBRT), Little Women (Mel and Sal, 2021, TBRT),  and Bite the Hand (The Last Great Hunt, 2021, Subiaco Arts Centre); and previous scenography includes Las Hormigas (Pilar Mata Dupont, 2022, PICA), and See You Next Tuesday (Static Drive Co., 2022, Subiaco Arts Centre Studio). Rhi’s work has been described as ‘exciting, pertinent and ambitious theatre’ (Seesaw Mag, 2020).

In Residence At Bundanon

Rhi will be working on developing an interactive fiction work, titled Crab Eats Internet, exploring the dissonance between an individual’s morality, the impact of the systems they exist within, and the imperative to exist, adapt and survive. The project aims to interrogate the fragility of hierarchies, the nebulousness of choice, and the relationship between a slowly eroding landscape and the species that occupy it—in a deceptively silly game. In this development, Rhi will also continue experimenting with creating lo-fi work which uses easily accessible online tools, and non-linear narrative structures.