
DIPTYCHS: 43° N, 79° W / 48° N, 123° W [compilation tape, 6 episodes]
Judith Price and Johanna Householder
2023, 46:18 minutes, colour, English (available with English subtitles)
TAPECODE 919.19
Compilation tape contains all six episodes of the DIPTYCHS series, plus Cedar & Bamboo.
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.
In 2022, Householder and Price extended their collaboration with the additional dimension of soundtracks created by six accomplished sonic collaborators: Anne Bourne, seth cardinal dodginghorse, Rita McKeough, Homo Monstrous, Jeff Morton, and Jeanne Randolph.
With wry humour, Householder and Price endeavor to save face-to-face communication from oblivion by improvising a new relationality.
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