Performance Art
As a performance artist Chanje has been experimenting with an abstract and pictorial style of performance, since working with director and performance artist Juliet Ellis on her show ‘Amsterdam’. She has enjoyed exploring inventive ways of looking at gender politics.
Chanje has produced a piece of performance art entitled #ICantBreathe for digital media as a way of using art as activism in terms of racial politics.
She also collaborates with other performance artists, most recently with Nwando Ebizies ‘Distotrted Constellations’ an interdisciplinary exhibition that combines art and science
Plays
As a playwright she has had 4 full length plays produced which received critical acclaim. ‘Plant Fetish’ was Chanje’s last touring play. It was commissioned by HOME, ARC and Eclipse in 2019, and was booked for a 14 venue national tour. Chanje recently competed an R&D for a new show entitled ‘Portal to Another Dimension’ with support from Battersea Arts Centre and Unlimited in 2025 .
‘Superposition’ commissioned by the Lowry in 2017 toured the UK. Her previous play ‘Amsterdam’ toured the UK in 2014 and 2015. In 2016, it toured South Africa, including featuring in the main Programme of the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown and the 969 in Johannesburg. Her first Play entitled Blue Black Sister was commissioned by the Royal exchange in 2009
Poetry
As a poet prominent performances include features at The Royal Albert Hall London, Calabash Literature Festival Jamaica, Black Magic Woman Festival Amsterdam, Apples and Snakes at Soho Theatre and the Latitude Festival. As part of a residency in the Netherlands, she also performed in Amsterdam, Rotterdam Eindhoven and Groningen. For details of her poetry publications. Click here
Creative Health
As an artist living with Complex PTSD Chanje’s creative work celebrates and champions the value, importance and beauty of ‘broken people’. Her works in this area includes creating performance for digital media, such as Art Film ‘Kintsugi Gold’ for DadaFest International Festival.
She has lived experience of racial injustice, gender based violence and oppression, colonial legacies, diasporic identities, and migration . She portrays the sanctity of a Black, female body as a vessel for art as activism