Art Metropole

09 Apr. 2025

Slipping Into Slipping Away

A Performance by Chipo Chipaziwa

Time

7:00-9:00PM

Art Metropole is pleased to present Slipping Into Slipping Away, a performance by Chipo Chipaziwa, taking place at 7:00 PM on April 9, 2025. Originally developed during her artist residency at Western Front, Chipaziwa’s performance is presented in conjunction with the Toronto launch of her recent artist’s book My Mother My Home.

This intimate, 30-minute performance is a free, ticketed event that will take place at Art Metropole. The performance will be followed by a reception. As capacity is limited, pre-registration is required. Please register at this link.

Performance: 7:00 PM, registration required
Reception: 7:45 PM, open to the public

In My Mother My Home, Chipaziwa explores utilizing written language and alternative representational forms of art — 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.

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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.

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Chipo Chipaziwa performs Slipping Into Slipping Away at Western Front, 2024. Rachel Topham Photography LTD.

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