Cecelia Condit: Video Works from 1981 to the Present

Name: Cecelia Condit: Video Works from 1981 to the Present
Start: 2024-09-30T17:30:00-04:00
Location: University of Tennessee School of Art

Schedule

Mon Sep 30 2024 at 05:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

University of Tennessee School of Art | Knoxville, TN

Ground-breaking filmmaker, Cecelia Condit, will give an artist talk punctuated by screenings of her video works from 1981-present. Condit’s videos have created heroines whose lives swing between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty, youth and fragility. Her work puts a subversive spin on the traditional mythology of women in film and the psychology of sexuality and violence. Exploring the dark side of female subjectivity, her “feminist fairy tales” focus on friendships, age, and the natural world. Condit will focus on ways her creative practice has shaped her life and conversely how her biography has shaped these intimate works—making a cohesive thread out of a fractured, disjointed world.
When: 5:30 PM on September 30, 2024
This event, which is part of the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts 2024-2025 Distinguished Lecture Series, will be offered in a hybrid format. The in-person panel takes place in AA109 on the UT Knoxville campus. To register for the Zoom liverstream, visit tiny.utk.edu/Condit.
This talk is hosted in partnership with the UT School of Art and UT Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture. The Ewing Gallery will be exhibiting a rotating selection of Condit’s short films as well as a monumental installation of her latest film, “There are No Words” — a triptych that represents Condit’s reaction to the environmental crisis and our uncertain futures.
About the speaker:
Cecelia Condit is a filmmaker and storyteller who has created heroines whose lives swing between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty, youth and age. Her work puts a subversive spin on the mythology of women in film and the psychology of sexuality and violence. She has shown internationally in festivals, museums and alternative spaces, and has received numerous awards and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mary L. Nohl Foundation. She’s a professor emerita in the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.