works in creative direction, editorial, and collaborative projects. She is from Papua New Guinea and Japan and currently lives and works in Kyoto. She works with artists and thinkers within the fields of contemporary art, printing, and experimental publishing. Her interests include registers of multiplicities, writing, and ways in which cultural studies address the critical challenges posed by artistic practice.
パプアニューギニアと日本のルーツを持つクリエイティブ・ディレクター。現在京都在住。現代美術や出版の分野で活躍するアーティストや思想家とコラボレーションに集中。主に、多重性のレジスター、パフォーマンスとしての執筆行為、芸術的実践がもたらす批判的課題にカルチュラル・スタディーズが取り組む方法などに関心を持っている。
Index
2024
Writing
un Projects
2024
Publication
black cat day dream
2024
Publication
KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival
2024
Literary Salon
Isabelle Olivier, Suzette Robichon, Foster Mickley
2023
Publication
black cat day dream
2023
Multiple
Elena Tutachikova
XIE Bicycles & MNK press
Private commission
Benrido, Inc. & London Gallery
2021
Multiple
Atelier EXB
Benrido, Inc.
Nobody Books
2021
Publication
MNK press
2020
Artwork
Nederlands Fotomuseum
Benrido, Inc.
MACK
Vitamin Creative Space
Benrido, Inc.
2019
Artwork
Benrido, Inc.
2019
Multiple
Private commission
2018
Artwork
Benrido, Inc.
Benrido, Inc.
Private commission
Atelier EXB & Benrido, Inc.
2018
Artwork
Private commission
2018
Artwork
Private commission
2017
Multiple
Benrido, Inc.
2017
Multiple
Benrido, Inc.
2017
Multiple
Benrido, Inc.
2017
Multiple
Benrido, Inc.
2017
Multiple
Benrido, Inc.
2017
Multiple
Benrido, Inc.
2017
Multiple
Benrido, Inc.
2016
Multiple
Museum Bonnefanten
2016
The Heavy Collective
2016-2022
Publication
Benrido, Inc.
2016-2022
Publication
Benrido, Inc.
2016-2022
Artist Residency
Benrido, Inc.
2016
Publication
Joana Durães
2016
Magazine
Amana, Inc.
2016
Publication
MNK press
2016
Photobook
Zen Foto Gallery
2015
Photobook
MNK press
2015
Essay
Zen Foto Gallery
2014
Writing
TABF
2014
Website
shashasha
2014
Educational Inst.
The Market Photo Workshop
un Magazine Issue 18.2
Writing
Writing
Essay contribution in issue 18.2 guest edited by Joel Sherwood Spring titled A starter for clarification.
The text speaks to bodies in wounding, and the use of trauma discourse within the National Museum & Art Gallery Papua New Guinea’s Kokoda Gallery, built to commemorate WWII. Two artworks in particular will be discussed as starting points; Nora Heysan's Sister M. Russel nursing at the 106th Australian Casualty Clearing Station (1944), and William Dargie's Native bearers carrying wounded in New Guinea (1943).
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un Projects publishes writing that emerges from art making, providing an independent platform for critical discussions about local artistic practice. With a focus on artists, writers, and independent practice, un Projects publishes essays, artists’ work, and reviews, in print and online. The flagship publication is un Magazine an independent contemporary art magazine published bi-annually, founded in 2004 by Melbourne artist Lily Hibberd. It is printed in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia.
Listening
Publication
Publication
black cat day dream
Collaboration, Designer
2024
Collaboration, Designer
2024
Listening is a book of poetry by Lithuanian-American artist Foster Mickley. A primer in lead to its publication in Japanese, English, and French, this first iteration is written in English and its makings work as both experiment and exercise. Waves and tidal skies make imagery of oceans and starlight mnemonic, possession lives in softness and the feeling of a shared “our” sets one alight in soft blaze. Words are given room to be made sonic, voiced by the reader, and held as gentle breath-turned-breaks. Here the plateaus as waves, as mountains, are shaped by wind and rain, their sounds move from one to the other finding home in places made various. Within these fields, Listening evokes spaces weathered in safety, made in hope for a shared commons and for a shared world of words.
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Publication Details
Poetry by Foster Mickley
Edited and designed by Hideko G. Ono and Isabelle Olivier
Handbound by Isabelle Olivier and Hideko G. Ono
Softcover, 51 pages
133 x 210 mm
90 copies in total bound in varying covers of light purple, sky blue, and pale pink
Signed and numbered
Initial English release June 22, 2024
Published by black cat day dream press
Printed in risograph by Hand Saw Press Kyoto
Available to view with Yvon Lambert
KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival
Creative & Editorial Direction
2024
Creative & Editorial Direction
2024
TRANSCENDANCE is the official catalogue for the exhibition TRANSCENDANCE presented by the KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival held at Vague (Arles) as part of the Associated Program of the 2024 edition of ARLES Rencontres de la Photographie. The exhibition brought together the work of six Japanese female photographers who explore the multiple languages of photography, transforming it into a tool of affirmation and resilience: Hosokura Mayumi, Iwane Ai, Okabe Momo, Suzuki Mayumi, Tonomura Hideka, and Yoshida Tamaki.
This special edition catalogue features the work of each exhibited artist as accordion booklets held in a custom-embossed case. The accompanying text is available in English, French, and Japanese
Produced in two weeks and against a seemingly impossible schedule, the catalogue was made possible through collaborative efforts with the lead designer, Hiroyuki Yamada. My sincere thanks go to him.
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Publication Details
Direction by Lucille Reyboz & Yusuke Nakanishi
In collaboration with Hideko G. Ono
Graphic Design by Hiroyuki Yamada (RAS inc.)
Translation (French & English) by Zoé Isle de Beauchaine
Translation (English to Japanese) by Sayaka Sameshima
Translation (Japanese to French) by Corinne Quentin
Dimensions: 211 x 149 x 6mm
Published by KYOTOGRAPHIE
670-10 Shokokujimonzen-cho, Kamigyo-ku
Kyoto 602 – 0898 JAPAN
Printed by Nissha Printing Communications, Inc.
ISBN : 978-4-9913706-0-1
Literary Salon｜After Saphho
Literary Salon
Literary Salon
black cat daydream, Suzette Robichon
Participation & Reading
2024
Participation & Reading
2024
"…. SAPPHO, c.630 BCE
The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho.
Who was Sappho? No one knew, but she had an island…
We read Sappho at school, in classes intended merely to teach poetic metre. Very few of our teachers imagined that they were swelling our veins with cassia and myrrh. In dry voices they went on about the aorist tense, while inside ourselves we felt the leaves of trees shivering in the light, everything dappled, everything trembling. “
Literary Salon with Selby Wynn Schwartz author of After Sappho. My reading was taken from page 90 titled Sappho Fragment 19, 1901.
Held March 17th, 2024 at Cité Internationale des Arts – site de Montmartre
Organised by Isabelle Olivier, Suzette Robichon, Foster Mickley
森と光
Publication
Publication
black cat daydream
Collaboration, Designer, Editor
2023
Collaboration, Designer, Editor
2023
Guided by echoes sonorous in blue, ocher, and amber, its wakefulness is voiced alongside its light-dark cycle, and within these spaces I am both matutinal and vespertine. Its gentle unfolding occurs through each succession of image, and is felt in its steadied pause in breath. Images work as gifts within the poetic signal. Their light-tones extend as unadorned lyric, and are given as visual charis. They appear in us as transformative exhalations, our voices carriers of the knowing, its clouds take shape in a gestured caress. These thread-suns encourage the opening of a center, for divergence, for an unfixed-ness to a particular place or reading,—save for each new sun.
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Artists' publication made in response to a residency program held at the Field Science Education and Research Center of the Department of Forest Science, Kyoto University.
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Publication Details
Photographs by Foster Mickley
Words by Foster Mickley, Tateno Ryunosuke, and Isabelle Olivier
Edited and designed by Isabelle Olivier and Hideko G. Ono
Translation by Kojiro Kisaka and Isabelle Olivier
Handbound by Isabelle Olivier, Hideko G. Ono, Katja Lee Eliad and Valentina Iancu
Softcover, 72 pages
183 x 252 mm
200 copies, signed and numbered
1st edition released December 16th, 2023
Published by black cat daydream press
Printed by Syubisya
ISBN 978-4-911241-00-4
The Seminary of Estatic Poetics
End of Year Undoing (EOY)
Workshop
End of Year Undoing (EOY)
Workshop
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker
Participation
2023
Participation
2023
The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics is a sometimes-school run by Gabrielle Octavia Rucker.
Classes happen infrequently and are birthed through whim and positive obsession.
Publication
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- XIE Bicycles & MNK press
- Publisher & Designer
- 2022
A project made with a dear friend and bicycle builder, Nagatani Shin. A love letter for all bicycles, and all ways of riding.
Shin runs and owns XIE Bicycles located in Shugakuin; a small and cozy hamlet just under the mountains in the northern suburbs of Kyoto city.
The zine works as a letter, and its first iteration focused on Taiwan’s Cycling Route 1. It was meant to continue as a series but turned instead into ephemera - we only managed to make the one.
@xie_bicycle
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Publication Details
Title: XIE Bicycles Free Paper vol. 1
Size: 175 x 250mm
Words and photographs: Nagatani Shin
Japanese to Mandarin translation: Nagatani Shiki
Japanese to English translation, proofreading: Nagatani Shiki, Hideko G. Ono
Binding: hand folded by Nagatani Shin, Nagatani Shiki & Hideko G. Ono
Publication date: February 2022
Edition: 300 - 500
Printed by risograph at Hand Saw Press Kyoto
Artwork
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Studio Thomas Demand
Lead Production & Project Management
2022
Private commission of artwork produced by Benrido Collotype Atelier.