Anne-Nicole Ziesche, “Childhood Storage”, 2009, Video still, video 6’17’’, Courtesy of the artist and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, © Anne-Nicole Ziesche.
2013
ANNA-NICOLE ZIESCHE “CHILDHOOD STORAGE”
Anna-Nicole Ziesche’s film, “Childhood Storage”, is filmed within a detailed replica of her first childhood bedroom. It is inspired by the fact that mothers often preserve their child’s bedroom from the moment the child leaves home, creating a kind of physical storage for childhood.
It wonders how our childhood and the questions we ask, both physically and psychologically, shape us, whether an unbroken chain of past experiences determines every decision and action.
In what sense is adulthood the result of childhood?
In what form is the childhood room actually stored?
The film features various cycles conveyed through camera movement, performance, clothing, body language, and spoken words. These different storylines reference the artist’s childhood game of lying on the floor with her legs in the air and imagining the ceiling as the floor. As she explores different modes of perception, she also questions how we view and interpret the world from both the child’s and the adult’s perspectives.
Anna-Nicole Ziesche earned a BA and MA in Fashion from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Her interest in film and performance began in her final year of her MA in Fashion, when she created the film “Infinite Repetition” for her final show at the Truman Brewery in 2000. The film not only introduced a new way of communicating fashion but also revealed a process of continuously evolving designs and shapes. Early films were formal investigations of dress and composition, utilising film's freedom to manipulate, magnify, and repeat both decorative details and the bodies they enveloped. Her projects are a departure from these, as they attempt to convey her core interests more adequately than her past work – the relationship between mind and dress, and the performance of the body conditioned by dress (both physically and psychologically).
Anna-Nicole Ziesche has collaborated with fashion curator Judith Clark, fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm, and fashion artist & illustrator Howard Tangye.
Anna-Nicole Ziesche works as a Visual Artist, Associate Lecturer on the BA (hons) Fashion Design Womenswear, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London (since 2003) and Research Fellow: Design for Performance at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London (since 2009).
Anne-Nicole Ziesche, “Childhood Storage”, 2009, Video still, video 6’17’’, Courtesy of the artist and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, © Anne-Nicole Ziesche.