{"id":7263,"title":"Cecelia Condit","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/cecelia-condit","version":"695de2a9994d9ab3b04d89de5bc31e632b0329b2a119bf1d27680766b316674e","modified":"2011-06-17T23:59:34+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Cecelia","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Condit","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Cecelia Condit.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/cecelia-condit.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7263.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":1458},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":695}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Since the early 1980s Cecelia Condit\u0027s work has consistently explored the relationship between traditional femininity and violent sexual crime in videotapes that incorporate live action, appropriated television images, and original music. Professor of Film and Video at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Condit has a background in sculpture, photography, and filmmaking. Condit considers herself a \u0022storyteller, telling and singing songs about women\u0027s lives.\u0022 Her narrative tapes explore the not-so-average experiences of the \u0022average woman\u0022 in a social climate of sublimated violence, fear, and aggression between men and women, and women and society. The real violence in women\u0027s lives is made to coincide with fairy tales and princesses, a black-humored twist that conflates the moralizing lesson of fairy tales with the grisly sensationalism of tabloid headlines. The setting for her narratives is consistently Suburbia, Middle America, a land where fairy tale and reality fuse. \u0022My work centers around the theme of how bizarre events disrupt mundane lives. By contrasting the commonplace with the macabre, humor with the absurd, I address a reality that is both surprisingly believable yet strange enough to belong only to the realm of fiction.\u0022 Titles by Cecelia Condit: Beneath the Skin Not a Jealous Bone Oh, Rapunzel Possibly in Michigan Why Not A Sparrow Work by Cecelia Condit also appears on: Compilation: Cecelia Condit Videoworks: Volume 1","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":1458,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}