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Plug In ICA is delighted to announce an upcoming performance and book launch. Please join us in our bookstore on April 2 at 7PM for a performance by Chipo Chipaziwa. 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.
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.
Please note this is an intimate 30 minute performance, which will take place in the Plug In ICA bookstore, with a limited capacity of approximately 25 guests.
Image courtesy of Rachel Topham Photography LTD
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, 460 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3C 0E8, Canada,Winnipeg, Manitoba