Performance with Chipo Chipaziwa: Slipping Into Slipping Away

Index welcomes you to Slipping Into Slipping Away with Chipo Chipaziwa.

With her latest performance, Slipping Into Slipping Away, Chipaziwa investigates into the intersections of memory, legibility, archives, liminal encounters, and psychoanalysis.

During the performance, the artist book My Mother, My Home will be available.

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 Hom_e, was published by Archive Books in November 2024.

The event is part of September Sessions, more information about the festival and the program visit: septembersessions.se