Cecelia Condit: 1981 to Present March 28, 2010

An American video artist, Cecelia Condit's work focuses on the contrast between the everyday world and fairy tales, with topics ranging from female aging to the imaginary world of children to suburban cannibalism. Since the early 1980s, Cecelia Condit's narrative tapes have explored the not-so-average experiences of the "average woman" in a social climate of sublimated violence, fear, and misogynist aggression. Her dark-humored tapes conflate fairy tale morals with the grisly sensationalism of tabloid headlines, incorporating live action, appropriated television images, and original music into frequently operatic narratives.