Western Front presents Chipo Chipaziwa in Slipping Into Slipping Away, November 14 to 16
Artist-in-residence stages a performance that plays with power dynamics to mark the launch of her new book My Mother My Home
SPONSORED POST BY Western Front
Chipo Chipaziwa. Photo by Yoon Sook Cha of The Daily Composition Studio
Western Front presents Slipping Into Slipping Away, a new performance by artist-in-residence Chipo Chipaziwa that marks the launch of her artist book My Mother My Home, from November 14 to 16 at 7:30 pm. This intimate thirty-minute performance will take place in Western Front’s reception with a capacity of thirty audience members each night.
In My Mother My Home, Chipaziwa remediates her past performances by proposing alternative methodologies of archiving performance art without any photographic depictions of the body. While in residence, Chipaziwa furthered this line of inquiry by examining the representation of Black performance artists in Western Front’s archive. Slipping Into Slipping Away explores these intersections in Chipaziwa’s research—remixing content from the publication with reflections on memory, legibility, archives, liminal encounters, psychoanalysis, and the work of Adrian Piper.
Taking place on the ground floor of Western Front, Chipaziwa’s performance plays with the power dynamic between the art worker and the visiting public, the archivist and the archived, as a vehicle to examine traditional audience-performer relations.
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Post sponsored by Western Front.
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