Cecelia Condit

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Cecelia Condit
Purple-tinted photograph of a smiling, middle-aged white woman in front of a forest background.
Born1947
NationalityAmerican
OccupationVideo Artist and Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee[1]
Years active1981-
Known forher short, often surreal films
Notable work
Possibly in Michigan

Not a Jealous Bone Annie Lloyd Pulling Up Roots We Were Hardly More Than Children

I'm Not Afraid

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 films put a subversive spin on the traditional mythologies of female representation and the psychologies of sexuality and violence. Exploring the dark side of female subjectivity, her work focuses on myths of old age, childhood, lovers, mothers, families, friends.

Over the past 30 years, Condit has been the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, Mary L. Nohl Foundation, Wisconsin Arts Council and National Media Award from the Retirement Research Foundation. Her work has shown internationally in festivals, museums and alternative spaces and is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. In 2008, Condit had her first solo show exhibition at the CUE Art Foundation in New York.[2]

She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, received a B.F.A. in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art and M.F.A. in photography from Tyler School of Art of Temple University. She served as professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, before retiring in 2017.[3]

Condit's work has been widely popular among youth and young adults, beginning with the viral success of her film "Possibly in Michigan" on Reddit in 2015.[4] Four years later, an audio clip from the same film became a viral hit on TikTok, with over 22,000 iterations created as of July 2019.[5]

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

Videography[]

Year Title
1981 Beneath the Skin
1983 Possibly in Michigan
1987 Not a Jealous Bone
1992 Suburbs of Eden
1996 Oh, Rapunzel
2003 Why Not a Sparrow
2004 All About a Girl
2005 Little Spirits
2008 Annie Lloyd
2010 First Dream After Mother Died
2012 Within a Stone’s Throw
2015 Pulling Up Roots
2016 Some Dark Place
2017 Pizzly Bear
2018 We Were Hardly More Than Children
2019 I've Been Afraid

Personal life[]

Condit has two grown sons, Schuyler Vogel, who serves as the Senior Minister of the Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York, and Lloyd Vogel, who is the CEO of Garage Grown Gear, a popular outdoor gear company.

References[]

  1. ^ "Faculty & Staff Directory". Peck School of the Arts. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  2. ^ "Cecelia Condit". CUE Art Foundation. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
  3. ^ https://uwm.edu/arts/directory/condit-cecelia/
  4. ^ https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/34ejws/possibly_the_creepiest_thing_ive_ever_watched/
  5. ^ https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvv8z/cecilia-condit-video-art-tiktok
  • University of Wisconsin faculty profile
  • Tamblyn, Christine. “Significant Others: Social Documentary as Personal Portraiture in Women’s Video of the 1980’s.”
  • Mellencamp, Patricia, “Uncanny Feminism: The Exquisite Corpses of Cecelia Condit”, Framework, vol. 32, no. 3:104-22.
  • Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer's “Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art.”

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