CCCA Canadian Art Database

Johanna Householder

Johanna Householder is an American-born, Canadian performance artist. Since the late 1970s Householder has made performance works and videos while writing and editing texts about performance art in Canada. In the 1980s, Householder, Louise Garfield and Janice Hladki were members of the feminist performance ensemble The Clichettes, using lip-synching and humour to critique contemporary culture. The Clichettes are considered "the quintessential Bad Girls of Canadian performance of the 70s" and have been called "dangerously and aggressively funny" by Clive Robertson. She continues to create performance works with a basis in humour and satire including On the Subject of Art, based on a text by Alain Badiou, Performance Festivals redux, and Portrait of a Situation, which was performed in Helsinki, Valparaiso, Chile, Budapest, Bratislava and Cluj, Romania. Householder helped to found Danceworks and the Women's Cultural Building in the 80s, and the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art in 1997. 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.
Creator Id: 287
Social Media Link: Social Media Link
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: USA
Year of Birth: 1949
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist, Writer
Gender: Female
Mediums: performance, text-based
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Work by Johanna Householder

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Work ID: 58634

Description: Presented in G.R.I.D., a series of site-specific works for the Festival of Women in the Arts. Photo: Terry McGlade

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Work ID: 58633

Description: Presented in G.R.I.D., a series of site-specific works for the Festival of Women in the Arts. Photo: Terry McGlade

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Work ID: 58632

Description: Presented in G.R.I.D., a series of site-specific works for the Festival of Women in the Arts. Photo: Terry McGlade

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Incidence

Work ID: 58636

Description: A site work looking at the parameters of pedestrian movement. Bloor St., Toronto, Ontario.

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Incidence

Work ID: 58635

Description: A site work looking at the parameters of pedestrian movement. Bloor St., Toronto, Ontario.

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Later That Same Year

Work ID: 58637

Description: Performed at A Space, Toronto and at La Mamelle, San Francisco. Photo: Bobbe Besold. Copyright: Johanna Householder and Janice Hladki

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Later That Same Year

Work ID: 58638

Description: Performed at A Space, Toronto and at La Mamelle, San Francisco. Photo: Bobbe Besold. Copyright: Johanna Householder and Janice Hladki

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The Secret Life of Sgt. Preston

Work ID: 58641

Description: Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario

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The Secret Life of Sgt. Preston

Work ID: 58639

Description: Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario

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The Secret Life of Sgt. Preston

Work ID: 58642

Description: Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario

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Rötten Kunst

Work ID: 58644

Description: A collaboration with Frances Leeming, George Manupelli, and Eugenio Tellez. The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

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Rötten Kunst

Work ID: 58643

Description: A collaboration with Frances Leeming, George Manupelli, and Eugenio Tellez. The Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

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The Secret Life of Sgt. Preston

Work ID: 58640

Description: Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario

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Half-Human, Half-Heartache

Work ID: 58646

Description: The first feature-length performance by The Clichettes (Louise Garfield, Janice Hladki and Johanna Householder). Photo: David Cooper

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Half-Human, Half-Heartache

Work ID: 58647

Description: The first feature-length performance by The Clichettes (Louise Garfield, Janice Hladki and Johanna Householder). Photo: David Cooper

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Half-Human, Half-Heartache

Work ID: 58645

Description: The first feature-length performance by The Clichettes (Louise Garfield, Janice Hladki and Johanna Householder). Photo: David Cooper

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Home on the RageIf You Lived Here You’d Be Home NowSee Home Run

Work ID: 58648

Description: A trilogy of works investigating the elision of body and home, vulnerability, and colonialism. Mercer Union, Hart House, and 80 Langton St., San Francisco.

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Home on the RageIf You Lived Here You’d Be Home NowSee Home Run

Work ID: 58651

Description: A trilogy of works investigating the elision of body and home, vulnerability, and colonialism. Mercer Union, Hart House, and 80 Langton St., San Francisco.

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Home on the RageIf You Lived Here You’d Be Home NowSee Home Run

Work ID: 58649

Description: A trilogy of works investigating the elision of body and home, vulnerability, and colonialism. Mercer Union, Hart House, and 80 Langton St., San Francisco.

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Home on the RageIf You Lived Here You’d Be Home NowSee Home Run

Work ID: 58650

Description: A trilogy of works investigating the elision of body and home, vulnerability, and colonialism. Mercer Union, Hart House, and 80 Langton St., San Francisco.

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The Difference Between What One Thinks and What One Does

Work ID: 58653

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The Difference Between What One Thinks and What One Does

Work ID: 58652

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The Other Other

Work ID: 58655

Description: With David Smith

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The Other Other

Work ID: 58654

Description: With David Smith

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Out for Blood

Work ID: 58658

Description: The Clichettes
Louise Garfield as Medusa, Janice Hladki as Bernardine Dohrn (the founder of the Weather Underground) and Johanna Householder as The Bad Seed, (the murderous little girl from eponymous film noir classic.)

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Out for Blood

Work ID: 58656

Description: The Clichettes
Louise Garfield as Medusa, Janice Hladki as Bernardine Dohrn (the founder of the Weather Underground) and Johanna Householder as The Bad Seed, (the murderous little girl from eponymous film noir classic.)

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Out for Blood

Work ID: 58657

Description: The Clichettes
Louise Garfield as Medusa, Janice Hladki as Bernardine Dohrn (the founder of the Weather Underground) and Johanna Householder as The Bad Seed, (the murderous little girl from eponymous film noir classic.)

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Out for Blood

Work ID: 58659

Description: The Clichettes
Louise Garfield as Medusa, Janice Hladki as Bernardine Dohrn (the founder of the Weather Underground) and Johanna Householder as The Bad Seed, (the murderous little girl from eponymous film noir classic.)

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Entropy

Work ID: 58662

Description: Installation viewed by robotic presence. The Toronto Cybercity Project and The Electric Skin. Organized by Graham Smith.

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Entropy

Work ID: 58660

Description: Installation viewed by robotic presence. The Toronto Cybercity Project and The Electric Skin. Organized by Graham Smith.

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Entropy

Work ID: 58661

Description: Installation viewed by robotic presence. The Toronto Cybercity Project and The Electric Skin. Organized by Graham Smith.

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Bad Seed TV

Work ID: 58665

Description: Webcast and teleconferenced cross-country check-up.

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amygdala

Work ID: 58668

Description: With Carmen Householder-Pedari. The first 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. Photo: Louise Liliefeldt

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amygdala

Work ID: 58667

Description: With Carmen Householder-Pedari. The first 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. Photo: Louise Liliefeldt

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Bad Seed TV

Work ID: 58664

Description: Webcast and teleconferenced cross-country check-up.

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amygdala

Work ID: 58669

Description: With Carmen Householder-Pedari. The first 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. Photo: Louise Liliefeldt

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amygdala

Work ID: 58666

Description: With Carmen Householder-Pedari. The first 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art. Photo: Louise Liliefeldt

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Bad Seed TV

Work ID: 58663

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Last Year at Marienbad: the missing scenes

Work ID: 58670

Description: With Carmen Householder-Pedari

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Last Year at Marienbad: the missing scenes

Work ID: 58671

Description: With Carmen Householder-Pedari

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