In this audio response, Chipo Chipaziwa analyzes the conditions of—and impediments to—Black female and femme artists thriving in Vancouver. Chipaziwa explores this question through conversations with Black artistic leaders such as Afuwa, Rebecca (Becky) Bair, Seika Boye, Bertha Clark (also known as Adelene da Soul Poet), Justine A. Chambers, Nya Lewis, Karice Mitchell, and Krystal Paraboo.
For this response, Chipo Chipaziwa worked with Krystal Paraboo.
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In this audio response, Chipo Chipaziwa analyzes the conditions of—and impediments to—Black female and femme artists thriving in Vancouver. Chipaziwa explores this question through conversations with Black artistic leaders such as Afuwa, Rebecca (Becky) Bair, Seika Boye, Bertha Clark (also known as Adelene da Soul Poet), Justine A. Chambers, Nya Lewis, Karice Mitchell, and Krystal Paraboo.
For this response, Chipo Chipaziwa worked with Krystal Paraboo.
Chipo Chipaziwa is a visual artist who predominantly works in the medium of performance art. Chipaziwa’s practice concerns itself with the fluidity of identity, the performativity of the Black body and Chipaziwa’s own investigation of disrupting the gaze of the other. Chipaziwa has previously worked with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, the City of Vancouver and Live Biennale. Chipaziwa currently resides on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
The 2022 WEDGE Residency, a collaboration between CAG and Ground Floor, supported five early-emerging artists and cultural practitioners as they each explored a research question of their devising, related to the artistic, social or cultural history (and/or future) of “Vancouver.” In their self-directed residencies, the WEDGE residents each worked directly with a mentor to enrich their projects with intergenerational dialogue and exchange.
