Rhett D'Costa

Dr. Rhett D'Costa

Honorary University Fellow

Details

  • College: Design and Social Context
  • Department: Design and Social Context
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • rhett.dcosta@rmit.edu.au

Research fields

  • 3601 Art history, theory and criticism
  • 3604 Performing arts

Supervisor projects

  • The Unshakable Destiny: a disjointed thread through diasporic moving image of Hong Kong
  • 22 Jul 2020
  • Segues from memories to materiality

  • 25 Jun 2020
  • Fluid to Arid: Exploring the Notions of Life and Loss Through the Lens of the Lut Desert Geography
  • 19 Jun 2020
  • Performing the Material Poetics of Migration: a (re)Imagined threshold ritual of Tamil women
  • 5 Feb 2020
  • Silent Conversation: Prompting the Share Material Experience through the Digital Narrative Objects
  • 16 Jan 2020
  • Contemporising Indian Picture Recitation Through Performance
  • 20 Nov 2019

Teaching interests

Contemporary painting, drawing and installation practices, Identity, memory, narrative and place with reference to cultural location, particularly within Asia

Research interests

Visual Arts and Crafts, Curriculum and Pedagogy
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.