In which we explore each other's fridges and pantries, tuning into domestic concerns and exchanging recipes across time and space.

About the DIPTYCHS Series:
As a communications platform, ZOOM exposes a paradox. It claims to connect us when it often intensifies a sense of isolation. This contradiction is brought into focus by veteran performance artists, Johanna Householder and Judith Price, who enter the paradox to make a suite of “Episodes” using ZOOM to record their improvisatory investigations. Shot over several months during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020-2022, DIPTYCHS: 43° N, 79° W / 48° N, 123° W (the latitude and longitude of Toronto, ON and Victoria, BC respectively) is "an attempt to restore embodiment and peripheral vision to a world condensed into a 2880 x 1800 slab of metals and electrons."
According to the artists, who both come from conceptual, feminist, dance and performance art practices, “The crude imprecision of the technologies through which we now communicate flattens geographies and obliterates time zones.” The DIPTYCHS Episodes carry on a conversation about visualizations criss-crossing time and geography; chronicling life in an extended interior space.

Sound by Homo Monstrous (Leo Keiser and Jaye Kovach)
Leo Keiser is a musician, sound-maker, and performer based in Treaty 4 Territory (Regina SK). Equipped with common tools of live music creation, Leo frequently uses electronics to distort sounds driven by their body. These sounds find homes in live performance, music recordings, and sound art; In energetic rock, angular electronic noise, and bass-heavy drones. These sounds help the body find a home in itself. Collaborative in nature, Leo has performed in works/projects featured by: Canadian Art Magazine, Cups n Cakes Network, Femme Wave Arts Festival, Grind Central Festival, Ness Creek Music Festival, Queer City Cinema/Performatorium, Regina Folk Festival, SaskMusic, and Sled Island. Leo makes sounds with Regina-based music projects Homo Monstrous, MechaDroid, Oiseaux, Team Player, and makes body-reactive drones under the name Dandelion.

Jaye Kovach is a queer, disabled, butch trans woman, and a multimedia and performance artist living in Treaty 4 Terrirtory (Regina, SK). Their practice includes a growing tattoo business that, using trauma informed approaches, centers creating a safe space and comfortable tattooing experience for marginalized bodies. In 2019, Jaye was featured in the spotlight section of Canadian Art’s FEMME issue. Her performance work has been presented at Queer City Cinema/Performatorium, a queer media and performance art festival based in Regina, Saskatchewan, that attracts international artists and filmmakers. They also perform as part of Homo Monstrous and Forced Femme, bands that blur the line between music and performance art.