Chipo Chipaziwa Slipping Into Slipping Away Performance
April 2, 2025 | 7PM
Plug In ICA is delighted to announce an upcoming performance by Chipo Chipaziwa, titled Slipping Into Slipping Away. Please join us on April 2 at 7PM, in our bookstore. This a 30 minute intimate performance with a limited capacity of 30 guests. Following the performance we will be celebrating the Prairie launch of Chipaziwa’s first artist book, titled My Mother My Home.
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.
With her latest performance, Slipping Into Slipping Away, Chipaziwa continues her investigation by delving into the intersections of memory, legibility, archives, liminal encounters, and psychoanalysis.
My Mother My Home will be available to purchase in our bookstore and on our online shop following the performance.
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 Western Front (2024); The Polygon Gallery (2023); and The Surrey Art Gallery (2022). 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.
Acknowledgments
We are on Treaty 1 Territory. Plug In ICA is located on the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the National homeland of the Red River Métis. Our water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.
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