In 2023 Zina returns to her BBC Radio roots and launches two podcasts that relate to the art
world and her art practise…
THE AGONY
The Agony is a brand new podcast dedicated to the emotional well-being of visual artists. Created by international artist and curator Zina Saro-Wiwa and co-present ed by performance artist and painter Ayana Evans, this show will be fearless in its dedication to telling the truth about what it means to live and work as an artist in the 21st century. Launches July 2023.
SPIRIT LED
“SPIRIT LED” is a journey, shared as a podcast, where artist and host Zina Saro-Wiwa explores the areas where food, spirituality, and environmentalism intersect. The meditative jumping off point is African palm wine spirit production, a culture and commodity that hosts multiple stories about secret epistemologies, plant medicine, invisible ecologies, ancestor worship and much more. In “SPIRIT LED” we cover these issues but also take these lessons out onto the open road and explore corollaries around the world and across history, constructing a radical thesis of spiritual ecology along the way. The podcast is a project of the Illicit Gin Institute.