معرفی
Eiko Soga is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University. Her practice-led research bridges art, ecology, and indigenous knowledge systems through moving image, photography, poetry, and installation.
- Key Collaborations: Jatiwangi Art Factory (Indonesia), Ainu artists in Hokkaido
- Supervision: Co-supervised by Professor Corin Sworn (University of Oxford) and Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford)
- Locations: Active in London, Hokkaido, and international biennales
Research Themes:
Sensory ethnography in Samani Ainu communities; decolonial ecology through edible clay projects; environmental justice via artistic unlearning; cross-species communication in indigenous frameworks. Her work interrogates colonial-capitalist social norms while developing compassionate knowledge exchange models.
Article Trends:
15+ works (2017–2025) show progression from landscape-based subjectivity to material politics (bamboo, kombu, clay). Recent works like Scent Line of a Moving Mountain (2025) and Microbes As Secret Agents (2023) expand into microbial ecology and pregnancy-as-ecological-lens.