In which we give the space over to the objects at hand to find their own relationships.

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 Rita McKeough
Rita McKeough is an installation and performance artist based in Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta, on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3). Her work incorporates audio, electronics, and mechanical performing objects. McKeough consistently works from a feminist perspective. In her recent work she focuses on the environmental impacts of oil production using sound to articulate forces of resistance in the natural world. McKeough’s work has been featured in Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women (YYZ Books, 2004). Rita McKeough: Works (Emmedia, Truck Gallery and MST performative art festival, 2018). McKeough credits the support and assistance of her community in the production of her work. In 2009, she was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.