Approximations

Installations:  Johanna Householder and b.h. Yael

Curated by Gerta Johanna Cammaer as part of Brisk Collages & Bricolges: Artistic audits & creative revisions of mainstream media in recent Canadian shorts, Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, July 2005.

Curated by Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto: September 11 – October 10, 2009

Three of the videos of the Approximations series were installed for individual and collective viewing.

Approximations is a series collaboration of Johanna Householder and b.h. Yael. Each work is a shot for shot recreations of a specific filmic scene.   The artists’ gendered bodies re-perform the lead characters. The first three works take on 1970’s cinematic classics: Apocalypse Now, 2001 Space Odyssey, and Last Tango in Paris. The last, a bit more of an anomaly, is Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.

The works are an amalgamation of Johanna’s and Yael’s sensibilities, performance and cinematography, and display a fascination with and questioning of representations of the future, apocalypse and war, sex and religion. 

Three of the videos of the Approximations series were installed for individual and collective viewing.

Individual descriptions for each video can be found under Collaborations page.

View Approximations 1-3 on OVNI Archives.

Catalogue published by Mount Saint Vincent University, MSV Art Gallery, Halifax.