Johanna Householder is an American-born, Canadian performance artist.
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.
[1] The Clichettes are considered "the quintessential Bad Girls of Canadian performance of the 70s" [2] and have been called "dangerously and aggressively funny" by Clive Robertson (artist).
[3] 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.
[4] 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.