Zina Saro-Wiwa: Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Illicit Gin Institute Assembly #5
— Tramp, London

To celebrate the opening of Frieze London 2022, Wedel Art and EmDash Foundation hosted a performance of Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Illicit Gin Institute Assembly. Both profound and joyful, Saro-Wiwa’s performances are carefully curated events, designed to engineer a profound sense of connection to the earth. In addition to a verbal address by Saro-Wiwa, the evening featured a silent gin tasting, delicious food, radical cocktails and an unbridled celebration of soil and soul.

Zina Saro-Wiwa (b. 1976, Port Harcourt, Nigeria) is multi-disciplinary, research-based artist who lives and works between Los Angeles, the UK and Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Her practices deals primarily with environmentalism, invisible ecologies, re-imagining indigeneity and exploring the nature of power. She works with video, photography, sound, distillation, food, performance lecture and institution-building to tell stories and share research and meditation findings. Saro-Wiwa is a Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Art and will be a TORCH visiting Fellow at Oxford University in Michaelmas Term 2023.