Jessica Hansell aka Coco is a Māori (Ngāpuhi), Samoan and German creative from Auckland. She is an established musician and writer, and also directs for screen. Coco is a Creative New Zealand Fulbright scholar through the Center Pacific Island Studies in Hawai'i and in 2019 became a New Zealand Art Laureate for Interdisciplinary Arts. She is the creator of the animated sitcom series 'Aroha Bridge' and runs Kuini Qontrol - a multimedia hub/record label prioritising mana wāhine, Indigenious and Oceanic stories, LGBTQI/gender-fluid voices and underground creatives of colour.

Jessica Hansell aka. Coco Solid is a Māori (Ngāpuhi), Samoan and German creative from Auckland. 

Jessica Hansell aka Coco Solid

Self-isolation has been hard. Art can help everyone. 

 is an immersive podcast series made in collaboration with ten New Zealand artists across theatre, music, poetry and dance. Each artist has made you a 15-minute personalised audio performance to help with one thing you might be feeling in isolation and as we transition out of it.

Jessicoco Hansell aka. Coco Solid is a Māori (Ngāpuhi), Samoan and German creative from Auckland. She is a Fulbright scholar, New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate, and a long-time musician and screenwriter/director. She shares art, audio and journalism at 

 and is the creator of cult cartoon series 

A collective member of Piki Films, Coco has an MFA in Creative Writing from Victoria University Wellington, she attended the Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona and is an Eleanor Catton Horoeka Scholarship Recipient. She has been a mentor/speaker at the Ableton LOOP Festival in Los Angeles and the Creative New Zealand Pacific writer in residence at the University of Hawai’i. Her work has been featured in 

If You're Looking For A Sign, This Could Be It

to listen to when you feel existentially overwhelmed and looking for a sign.

Listen in a cosy position and outfit, in a psychedelic mood, uninterrupted, either wearing headphones or on a mean system.

If you're listening from mobile, Apple, Spotify and Soundcloud are preferable to the below player (as the sound won't cut out when your phone goes to sleep!)

Each artist has provided you with an accompanying text or artwork with their episode. To accompany their podcast, this is a watercolour from creators Coco Solid and Tokerau Wilson.

'Synergy was her higher self, not Jem' by Coco Solid and Tokerau Wilson

 is created & performed by Coco Solid
Music and sound design: Tokerau Wilson
Additional sound design: Byron Coll

Theme music: C. Frances Duncan and Ruby Solly
Graphic design: Sarah Gladwell
Produced by 

 for The Pantograph Punch
Made with the support of NZ on Air

Multidisciplinary creative Coco Solid has made you a holographic sermon.

Pantograph Punch

The Pantograph Punch team reflect on 14 years of continuous publishing as a stalwart arts media journal (are we allowed to say this about ourselves?), and our choice to go on hiatus.

Long Live Pantograph Punch, Forever

Mya Morrison-Middleton

Te Rā, the only remaining Māori sail, has temporarily returned home. Mya Morrison-Middleton visits Te Rā, asking questions of its origins and future, while highlighting the work of those who are actively reviving Māori sails.

Opening Portals with Our Hands: On Te Rā, the Māori Sail

Matariki Williams

What if Pākehā were subjected to the same colonisation as Māori? Matariki Williams travels into the sci-fi world of 'Turncoat' - where an all-too-familiar narrative of colonisation plays out amongst aliens and humans.

A State of Disconnection: The Human Alien Relationship of Turncoat

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Tunmise Adebowale

Tunmise Adebowale finds warmth and unexpected connections between wooden carvings of twins from her Yoruba whakapapa, and Ōtepoti-artist Kate Fitzharris’ works at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Looking at Things as a Whole

Stacey Kokaua 

Pip Laufiso was born and raised in Ōtepoti and her contributions to Māori and Pacific arts in this city have spanned decades. Stacey Kokaua reflects on how Pip influences a community of creatives in a city not often recognised for a brown arts culture.

Pip Laufiso: Living and Breathing Pacific Arts in the Deep South 

From the Springbok Tour, to the Vietnam War, to the occupation of Palestine, Matariki Williams delves into how the arts have been, and can be, used to express solidarity and protest.

Art is a Salve

Mya Morrison-Middleton reflects on the career of renowned Māori artist Robyn Kahukiwa, and her latest exhibition 'Tangata Whenua', which showed at Season Aotearoa in Auckland and Christchurch's Centre of Contemporary Art.

He Toka Tū Moana a Robyn Kahukiwa

Gabriella Brayne

Litia Tuiburelevu

Gabriella Brayne and Litia Tuiburelevu publish this essay, taken from a wider research project on Pacific Peoples and the Criminal Justice system in Aotearoa New Zealand, written with Liz Lotoa, Isabella Ieremia and Hugo Wagner-Hiliau. Their research calls for abolition and an ending to carceral capitalism, envisioning emancipatory past futures for Tangata o le Moana and the globe.

What Shall We Build on the Ashes of a Nightmare?

Tom Denize

Is cruising a form of time travel, a doorway into a pocket of Queer time, or something else entirely? Tom Denize unpacks the heat and magnetism of cruising spots.

Waterlilies Sucking Mud

Briar Pomana

Briar Pomana (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) falls down the enticing crochet rabbit hole of artists Lissy Robinson Cole and Rudi Robinson, reflecting on the role ringatoi Māori play in our current realities and beyond.

Wharenui Harikoa is what dreams are made of

Emele Ugavule

Is the demand for intimacy co-ordinators, choreographers and directors just colonialism rebranding itself to undermine our sense of collective morale and personhood? In asking for collective responsibility in storytelling, Emele Ugavule pulls forward Indigenous conceptualisations of body sovereignty from an iTaukei worldview. 

THE PANTOGRAPH PUNCH

THE PANTOGRAPH PUNCH

Artist in Residence Podcast: Coco Solid

Artist in Residence: Coco Solid

This episode is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, our RSS feed and right here.

If you're listening from mobile, Apple, Spotify and Soundcloud are preferable to the below player (as the sound won't cut out when your phone goes to sleep!)

We recommend headphones.

Synergy was her higher self, not Jem

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