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Emiko Sheehan

Kaituhi Tūtahi | Contributing Writer

Emiko Sheehan (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tūwharetoa, Waikato, Japanese) is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked with video, drawing, muka and poetry to understand and explore the multidimensional planes of whakapapa from collapsing colonial ideas of time, to breastfeeding her pēpi. She currently lives in Te Aroha in a yurt as an act of resistance against colonial land ownership.

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Society03.07.22

The Mysterious Bad Boys of the Moana

Emiko Sheehan on tuna: as kaitiaki, as kai, as haututū bad boys, descended from the heavens.

By Emiko Sheehan
Read Time: 11 mins

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