Cecelia Condit

Cecelia Condit (born 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American artist working in video. A storyteller producing videos since 1981, her work swings between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty. In the psychological landscape of contemporary fairy tales, Condit’s videos explore the dark side of female subjectivity and focus on the displacement that exists between women and society, women and the natural world.

With a focus on the myths of old age, motherhood and children, Condit weaves stories that are full of memories and becomings.

In the past 30 years, Condit has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Film Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary Nohl Fellowship Award, and Wisconsin Arts Council Award for Media Arts, and the National Media Award from the Retirement Research Foundation. Her work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, alternative spaces and festivals and is represented in many public and private collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and the Polaroid Corporation.

Condit studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art and an M.F.A. in photography from Tyler School of Art of Temple University. Currently she is a professor of film and video at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the director of the graduate program in film.

Her videotapes are available from the Video Data Bank, Chicago, and Electronic Arts Intermix, NYC.

Videography

• Beneath the Skin 1981, 12:05 min, color, sound
• Possibly in Michigan 1983, 11:40 min, color, sound
• Not a Jealous Bone 1987, 10:24 min, color, sound
• Suburbs of Eden 1992, 15:17 min, color, sound
• Oh, Rapunzel 1996, 35 min, color, sound
• Why Not a Sparrow 2003, 12 min, color, sound
• All About a Girl 2004, 5:25 min, color, stereo
• Little Spirits 2005, 8:35 min, color, stereo
• Annie Lloyd 2008, 17:20 min, color, stereo
• First Dream After Mother Died, 2010, 6:00 min, color, stereo

References

• Cecelia Condit in the Video Data Bank
• University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Faculty Profile [1]
• Tamblyn, Christine. "Significant Others: Social Documentary as Personal Portraiture in Women's Video of the 1980's." In Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer's Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art.
• Mellencamp, Patricia. 1986. 'Uncanny Feminism The Exquisite Corpses of Cecelia Condit', Framework, vol. 32, no. 3:104-22.
• Straayer, Chris. Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies p 291, 304

External links

• Cecelia Condit's Webpage [2]
• Cecelia Condit in the Video Data Bank [3]
• Electronic Arts Intermix [4]
• Vicki Callahan Podcast on Cecelia Condit [5]
• Article by Kerrie Welsh [6]
• Article from the Brooklyn Rail by Heidi Howard [7]