Conditioned by Dress – The Relationship between Mind, Fashion, Film & Performance.

This is the first monograph in the Pocket Book Series Practices of Transdisciplinarity, a co-publishing collaboration between the ArtEZ Academy in the Netherlands and the London College of Fashion. 'Practices of Transdisciplinarity' examines creative research practices that cross the traditional boundaries assigned to art and design disciplines.

Anna-Nicole Ziesche's: Conditioned by Dress - The Relationship between Mind, Fashion, Film and Performance' opens the series.

This combined visual and text-based publication is the first book to present an overview of Anna-Nicole Ziesche’s films. Her early work investigates methods for composing fashion ‘looks’, using simple film editing techniques to manipulate, magnify and repeat the decorative details of cloth onto the body. We discover her unique research process that uses story telling and performance to explore the relationship between self-perception and dress. Anna-Nicole is also a sculptor; she re-constructs her dreams, building installations in which she subjects the body to poetic narratives inspired by her experiences of fashion. Within these installations Anna-Nicole and her ‘dressed’ characters perform both physically and psychologically. Film and photography are mediums where "to dress" takes on a new meaning.

[from the Foreword, by Lucy Orta]