Johanna Householder has been making performance, dance, video and intermedia art since the late 1970s. Working at the intersection of popular and unpopular culture, she shapes plundered source material in order to talk back to mass forms. Householder practices her own brand of cultural détournement, very often in collaboration with other artists. She has most recently performed at Swan Lake in Victoria, BC for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; reset a 1978 solo for Toronto Dance Theatre; and presented Residuals, an evening of her work at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Active in international performance, her most beloved festival experiences have been Performancear o Morir in Norogachi, Mexico; Live in Gothenberg, Sweden; La Bas in Helsinki, Finland; and undisclosed territory in Java, Indonesia. Householder is one of the founders of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art and teaches performance art and integrated media at OCAD University, where she is a Professor and Chair of Cross-Disciplinary Art Practices.

Catherine Lavoie-Marcus is a choreographer and a writer. Since 2008, she presents her creation in theatres and artist-run centres in Quebec (Tangente, Studio 303, Usine C, Skol, Fonderie Darling) and shares her personal or collective research abroad (France, Spain, China). Columnist at the contemporary art magazine esse arts+opinions, she continues her doctoral research at the Université du Québec à Montréal in Studies and Arts Practices.