Cecelia Condit

Cecelia Condit
Condit in June 2017
Born	1947 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Video Artist and Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee^[1]
Years active	1981–present
Known for	Short film, surrealist film
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) is an American video artist. Condit's films are noted for their attempts to subvert traditional mythologies of female representation and psychologies of sexuality and violence.

Condit has received 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 been 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]

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Early life and education

Condit was born in Philadelphia in 1947. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania. She received a BFA in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art and a MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

Career

Condit 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.^[3] Her work received renewed attention in 2015 after her short film Possibly in Michigan was posted to Reddit.^[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]

Works

Beneath The Skin

Beneath the Skin is her first work. A short film, it follows a woman's thoughts and musings towards a recent incident in which she discovered that her boyfriend was hiding the body of his ex-girlfriend in his closet.

It is based on a real-life incident that occurred in Condit's life when she dated Ira Einhorn, also known as the Unicorn Killer. Ira had murdered his ex-girlfriend, Holly Maddux, and hidden her corpse in his closet.^[6] Condit, who began dating Einhorn, never found Maddux's corpse due to being on medication that hindered her sense of smell.^[7]

The film can be found on Condit's personal YouTube channel.

Videography

Year^[8]	Title
1981	Beneath the Skin^[9]
1983	Possibly in Michigan
1987	Not a Jealous Bone
1996	Suburbs of Eden
1990/2008	Oh, Rapunzel
2003	Why Not a Sparrow
2004	All About a Girl
2005	Little Spirits
2008	Annie Lloyd
2015	Pulling Up Roots
2016	Some Dark Place
2017	Pizzly Bear
2019	We Were Hardly More Than Children
2020	I've Been Afraid
2021	AI and I

Select Installations

Condit has created a number of video installations including:

First Dream After Mother Died (2010), a three-channel video installation that was exhibited at the North Dakota Museum of Art^[10]
Within a Stone's Throw (2012), a three-channel video installation exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art,^[11] the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Burren College of Art in Ireland^[12]
Tales of Future Past (2017), a two-channel video installation exhibited at the Lynden Sculpture Garden^[13]

Personal life

Condit has two grown sons, Schuyler Vogel, the chaplain at Carleton College, and Lloyd Vogel, chief executive officer at Garage Grown Gear.

References

^ "Faculty & Staff Directory". Peck School of the Arts. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
^ "Cecelia Condit". CUE Art Foundation. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
^ "Cecelia Condit | Peck School of the Arts".
^ "Possibly the creepiest thing I've ever watched". 30 April 2015.
^ "Cecelia Condit's Video Art is Going Viral on TikTok". 22 July 2019.
^ "Who Was the 'Unicorn Killer'? How a 1960s Activist-Turned-Murderer Evaded Extradition for 23 Years". Inside Edition. 2020-04-09.
^ Breda, Alix (2017-11-29). "Cecelia Condit's Body of Becoming: Women and the Dark Forest of Dreams". Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
^ "VIDEO". Cecelia Condit. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
^ Popkin (2021-11-27). ""Beneath The Skin" by Ceclia Condit combines true crime and art in an unforgettable way". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2023-10-01.
^ "North Dakota Museum Of Art | past 2010 cecelia condit". www.ndmoa.com. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
^ "Cecelia Condit: Within a Stone's Throw". Nevada Museum of Art. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
^ "PHOTOGRAPHY". Cecelia Condit. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
^ "Women, Nature, Science: Cecelia Condit: Tales of a Future Past". www.lyndensculpturegarden.org. 2016-07-12. Retrieved 2022-01-04.

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.”