Johanna Householder

Johanna Householder works with found performances from the intersection of popular culture and unpopular culture. She has been making performances and other artworks since the late 1970s. With Louise Garfield and Janice Hladki, Johanna was part of the satirical, feminist performance group The Clichettes, who performed under variable circumstances, throughout the 1980s. Householder practices her own brand of pop culture détournement and often collaborates with other artists. She also writes about performance and with Tanya Mars, and co-edited two books: Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women (2004), and More Caught in the Act (2016). Householder is one of the founders of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, and is professor emeritus at the Ontario College of Art & Design, where she taught performance art since 1988.

Participation

2009