My Mother, My Home

Join us for the London debut of performance artist Chipo Chipaziwa, marking the launch of her artist book My Mother, My Home and the UK premiere of her latest performance, Slipping Into Slipping Away.

Chipaziwa will be joined by artist and writer Samra Mayanja and poet-artist Phoenix Yemi (Black Geographies) for an evening of conversation, performance, and live music.

Chipaziwa's artist book, titled My Mother, My Home, 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.

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.

This event also marks the final stop of Chipaziwa’s European tour, following presentations in Copenhagen, Brussels, Stockholm, Berlin, and Amsterdam.

schedule

7 doors/ vibes

7:30 Poetry Reading Act I

8:00 Performance: Slipping Into Slipping Away

8:30 intermission

9 Chipo in conversation

9:45 Poetry Reading Act II

10 - 11 vibes

Chipo Chipaziwa 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’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.

Black Geographies founded by Phoenix Yemi, is a living chorus of poets and musicians rooted in resistance, memory, and the sacredness of place—whether physical or psychological. It honours language as a tool of embodiment, self-definition and collective survival: a refusal of erasure. The intent is to remember, to reimagine, and to reach toward new futures shaped by sound, story, and expression, guided by the deep knowing that our lives are bound to the land, to history, and to one another.

Samra Mayanja is a London-based artist and writer. Her work examines the body’s illegibility and the absurdity of seeking what is inherently lost, ‘a clown-like pursuit of the impossible’. The theme of searching — futile yet hopeful — runs through Samra’s work. She has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and theatres, including Cambridge Junction, The Oval, Somerset House, Kampnagel and Transmediale, among others.