[Performance] Slipping Into Slipping Away by Chipo Chipaziwa

We’re excited to welcome you for a performance by artist Chipo Chipaziwa. She will present Slipping Into Slipping Away, a performance that deepens her ongoing investigation into the nuances of archiving performance art. The evening also celebrates the launch of her recent artist book My Mother, My Home (Archive Books, 2024).

Schedule
19:00-19:30 performance of Slipping Into Slipping Away (starts on time) 
19:30-20:00 gathering for the release of My Mother, My Home (Archive Books, 2024)

Find the book here: https://rile.space/books/my-mother-my-home

About My Mother, My Home (Archive Books, 2024) 
In My Mother My Home, Chipaziwa explores utilizing written language and alternative representational forms of art (eg. drawing, printmaking and painting) to document her previous performances. Chipaziwa sets out to use the book format as a means of archiving her performances with/in the absence of her physical body. An experiment in memory, which weaves her past and present relations — that is, as an example of Black ancestrally and Black futurity —  in the form of collaboration, in which she is the connecting element, My Mother, My Home exemplifies a more cohesive understanding of how performance art can be archived, and how traditional forms of documentation can be perceived as imperialist and capitalist.

About Slipping Into Slipping Away 
In her performance Slipping Into Slipping Away, Chipaziwa continues her investigation by delving into the intersections of memory, legibility, archives, liminal encounters, and psychoanalysis.

About Chipo Chipaziwa 
Chipo Chipaziwa (b. 1997) is a performance artist whose practice investigates the power dynamic between performer and audience. She has received her BA in Visual Arts at the University of British Columbia in 2019.

Chipaziwa has performed at Art Metropole (2025); Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (2025); and Western Front (2024). Chipaziwa is a recipient of Canada Council for the Arts’s Concept to Realization Grant (2024); The BC Art Council’s Early Career Development Grant (2023, 2022); Canada Council for the Arts’s Research and Creation Grant (2023); the City of Vancouver’s Communities and Artists Shifting Culture Grant (2023); and the City of Vancouver’s Cultural Learning and Sharing Grant (2022).

Chipaziwa’s first artist book, titled My Mother My Home, was published by Archive Books in November 2024.

Chipaziwa currently resides on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Credits 
Rachel Topham Photography LTD