Eugene Hansen (Maniapoto) is a senior lecturer at Massey University’s Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Wellington. Focusing on co-authoring and working collaboratively, he has a long-term multimedia art practice exhibiting nationally and internationally. Eugene attributes his interest in collaboration to growing up in the remote rural Māori community featured in this book, where cultural production was modelled as an inherently collaborative embracing of mātauranga Māori. He lives in Wellington.
