Samuel Te Kani

SAMUEL TE KANI (b.1990) is a writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. They are the author of blogs Apocalypsistic and Grindr Guyz, and write personalised erotic fiction for cash. Selected texts include To queer or not to queer: What can galleries do to address homophobia?, The Spinoff, 2020; Ranger Don, Our Selves, 2020; Oh My Goddess; Meditations on an emerging Micro-Genre in Film, Matters #8, 2019; Is That A Camera In Your Pants?, Leste #7, 2019; On the Anti-Fascism Rally, The Spinoff, 2019; Of Neckbeards and Dragons, Toi Maori Aotearoa, 2019; Braids, Le Roy #5, 2016; A Phenomenology of Film, Artspace Aotearoa, 2016. Te Kani has also exhibited in Under Your Skin You Look Divine, Basement Specialist Adult Store & Cruise Club, 2018 and Dirt Future, Artspace Aotearoa, 2017.