Johanna Householder[edit]

Johanna Householder is an American-born, Canadian performance artist. Since the late 70's Householder has made performance works and videos while writing and editing texts about performance art in Canada. Along with Louise Garfield and Janice Hladki, Householder was a member of the 1980s feminist performance ensemble The Clichettes who used lip-synching and humour to critique contemporary culture.

Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance by Canadian women, published by YYZ Books, Toronto in 2005

As an organizer and communitarian she helped to found Danceworks and the Women's Cultural Building in the 80s, and the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art in 1997. It held its 8th biennial festival in 2010. Her work is also represented in Prêt á Emporter / Take Out: Performance Recipes for Public Space, edited by Christine Redfern for La Centrale, Montréal, 2004 and in Jane Wark’s Radical Gestures: Feminism And Performance Art In North America, 2006.

Householder is a professor in the Integrated Media Program, Faculty of Art at OCAD University, where she is currently Chair of the Criticism and Curatorial Practice Program.