Johanna Householder likes to work at the intersection of popular and unpopular culture, shaping plundered source material in order to talk back to mass forms. She has been making performances, video and other artwork since the late 1970s. As a member of the notorious feminist performance ensemble, The Clichettes in the 80s, Householder maintained a unique performance agenda practicing her own brand of pop cultural détournement, often in collaboration with other artists. A founder of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, she has sought to create a forum for international exchange. She writes on the histories of performance and the effect that performance has in contemporary art, new media, and social perception. With Tanya Mars, she edited Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women, published by YYZ Books, Toronto in 2004. Her collected video works, Approximations 1- 3, produced with b.h. Yael, have screened internationally. She is a Professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design.