Dan Taipua

Waikato, Tainui



Dan Taipua's work 'focuses on comic books, rap music, video games and film, and how these media are shaped by Māori artists and audienes. He and colleague Sophie Wilson inaugurated the term 'Aotearoa Futurism' in a 2015 radio documentary for RNZ.'

Biographical sources

  • Ngā Kupu Wero. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2023. 359-360.

    Non-fiction

  • Thor and his magic patu: notes on a very Māori Marvel movie. The Spinoff 31 October 2017. Rpt. as Thor and his magic patu: notes on a very Māori Marvel movie. Ngā Kupu Wero. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2023. 310-313.