The NewCrits Podcast Presents: Spent

Spent is a podcast about the real cost of a creative life. Hosted by artist and educator Ajay Kurian, each episode is an intimate conversation with an artist or cultural worker about the full arc of making things—burnout and breakthrough, rupture and reinvention, collapse and the slow work of starting again. The premise is unsentimental: these aren't private failures but a shared condition, shaped by institutions, economies, and the beliefs we hold about creative work. Spent treats every turn—the crises and the recoveries alike—as material, offering honest language for what it actually takes to sustain a practice over time.