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Christopher Steadman's early performance-based, multiple-channel video work focused on very specific personal concerns within a narrowly defined concept in order to allow larger statements to be inferred. 

Steadman's work has put a seditious slant on subjects saturated with paranoia, patriarchy, machismo, memory, experience, fairy tales and funk. A passive aggressive theme set the tone for some of his earlier video performances where wit, weaknesses, and will-power were woven into a dense angst-ridden portrayal of masquerade and exposure. Later, by removing himself as performer, he extended the internal dialogue that dominated the subtext of the previous work to allow an increased dialogue to develop with the viewer.