Fashion & Performance: Materiality, Meaning, Media

The exhibition Fashion & Performance: Materiality, Meaning, Media takes the form of a fashion performance film series and publication introducing the hybrid area of practice emerging between fashion and performance in time based and filmic media. Crucially, this subject is unexplored in literature and exhibitions, as such it breaks new ground. The exhibition package was specifically developed by the co-curators Dr Jessica Bugg and Anna-Nicole Ziesche for the Arnhem Mode Biennale 2013 and constituted a fraction of an extended research collaboration between Bugg and Ziesche comprising publications, practice-based research and an exhibition.

The show consisted of an extraordinary selection of 19 artists and designers such as Maria Blaisse, BOUDICCA, Hussein Chalayan, Bart Hess, Lucy Orta, Pyuupiru etc. Bugg and Ziesche were invited by the legendary Li Edelkoort to participate with the show at the Arnhem Fashion Biennale 2013 and the response from curators, visitors, artists etc had been overwhelming. Several films from the show had been selected to be part of the ASVOFF Film Festival at the Centre Pompidou in Paris October 2913. ‘Childhood Storage’ by Anna-Nicole Ziesche was one of them.

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