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.
You shouldn’t trust a writer to pen their own legacy, says musician, writer, director, producer and artist Jessica Hansell aka Coco Solid, who reflects on the value of stories that don’t add up.
Multidisciplinary creative Coco Solid has made you a holographic sermon.