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
2026
Production
black cat day dream
2026
Publisher
MNK press
2025
Book Design
black cat day dream
2025
Book Design
black cat day dream
2025
Editorial
KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival
2024
Writing
un Projects
2024
Book Design
black cat day dream
2024
Editorial
KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival
2024
Literary Salon
Isabelle Olivier, Suzette Robichon, Foster Mickley
2023
Editorial & Book Design
black cat day dream
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker
XIE Bicycles & MNK press
Private commission
Benrido, Inc. & London Gallery
2021
Multiple
KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival
2021
Multiple
Atelier EXB
Benrido, Inc.
Nobody Books
2021
Publisher
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
Editorial
Benrido, Inc.
2016-2022
Editorial
Benrido, Inc.
2016-2022
Artist Residency
Benrido, Inc.
2016
Publication
Joana Durães
2016
Magazine
Amana, Inc.
2016
Publisher
MNK press
2016
Photobook
Zen Foto Gallery
2015
Publisher
MNK press
2015
Essay
Zen Foto Gallery
2014
Writing
TABF
2014
Writing
shashasha
2014
Educational Inst.
The Market Photo Workshop
MNK press
Publisher
Publisher
In a collection of short stories spanning several decades from the 1970s onward, The Bird in the Bird Dance follows individuals confronted with uncertainty as they move across multiple worlds, unsure of how to reconcile them. Elders, students, civil servants, and wanderers appear in moments where cultural memory is recalled, questioned, or forgotten. Heavy downpours wash scenes away, sunlight reveals empty spaces, and radio broadcasts dissolve into disconnection. Rather than resolving these tensions, the writing refuses neat conclusions.
Existentialist in sensibility, Russell Soaba’s literary voice emerged during the years surrounding Papua New Guinea’s independence in 1975. His work draws on the linguistic and cultural worlds of his country and its peoples, forging a literary language that intertwines English with Tok Ples (the Indigenous languages of Papua New Guinea). Throughout his work, moments of the ordinary and fragments of everyday life unfold, examining how individuals live under the sustained pressures, contradictions, and tensions of a world in transition.
Included within is a foreword by Nigel Krauth and an archival interview of Russell Soaba by Kirpal Singh.
Specifications
Title: The Bird in the Bird Dance
Size: 133 x 203 mm
Pages: 192
Binding: Flapped paperback
Publication date: Spring 2026
Foreword: Nigel Krauth
Editor and book design: Hideko G. Ono
Language: English
Printed and bound in Japan
Publisher: MNK press
ISBN: 978-4-9914754-2-9