Slipping Into Slipping Away

Western Front is pleased to present a new performance by artist-in-residence Chipo Chipaziwa that marks the launch of her artist book My Mother My Home. 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. Featuring original texts by Chipaziwa, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Olumoroti George, and images by Margaret Joba-Woodruff, Sophia Lapres, and David Ezra Wang, My Mother My Home interrogates the ever-pervasive white gaze on Black life, art, and being.

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 will play with the power dynamic between the art worker and the visiting public, the archivist and the archived, as a vehicle to trouble traditional audience-performer relations.

My Mother My Home ($25) is available for pre-order online during ticket purchase. It will also be available for purchase at Western Front during the performances.