In collaboration with Det Lilla Rum, SixtyEight hosted the artist Chipo Chipaziwa’s performance Slipping Into Slipping Away, followed by a discussion with art historian Nina Cramer. As part of the event, Chipaziwa’s book My Mother My Home, published by Archive Books, was available for purchase. Chipo Chipaziwa is a Canadian citizen of Zimbabwean heritage, born in Malaysia, and shaped by time spent living in Switzerland and New York.

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.

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.

Bios

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 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.

Nina Cramer is a PhD candidate at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Arts and Cultural Studies where her research explores artistic practices and discourses of the African diaspora in Denmark from the 1980s to the 2020s. Alongside Mai Takawira, she co-founded G/HOSTING, a curatorial platform that promotes critical and reparative approaches to ongoing colonial histories. She has also co-edited several publications, including Black Monument (2025), Et ulydigt arkiv: Udvalgte tekster af Sara Ahmed (2020), and special issues of the art historical journal Periskop on ‘Blackness’ (2021) and ‘Faroese Art History Today’ (2024).

The performance and talk received generous support from Statens Kunstfond.