SLIPPING INTO SLIPPING AWAY performance by Chipo Chipaziwa

& launch of MY MOTHER MY HOME

San Serriffe is pleased to invite you to the performance Slipping Into Slipping Away by Chipo Chipaziwa. With her latest performance, Chipo Chipaziwa continues her investigation by delving into the intersections of memory, legibility, archives, liminal encounters, and psychoanalysis.

doors open at 6pm, with the performance starting at 6.30pm sharp

Following the performance, we are celebrating the Amsterdam launch of Chipaziwa’s first artist book, titled My Mother My Home, which was published by Archive Books in November 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.

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

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).

Image credit: Rachel Topham Photography LTD