Working in New York as an industrial designer in the fashion industry Anna Telcs has worked as Hardware Designer for London Fog Group, Production Manager for Thom Browne, Inc. and Accessory and Trim designer for Helmut Lang. She moved back to Seattle in 2009 to work as costumer for performance art group Implied Violence and has costumed and performed nationally and internationally in ‘The Dorothy K,’ (New Island Festival, NY, NY 2009), ‘Flinch Not and Give Not Back,’ (Donahue Festival, Krems, Austria 2010) and ‘Yes and More and Yes and Yes and Why,’ (Frye Museum, Seattle, WA 2010), with her design of a larger than life ball gown now part of the museum’s permanent collection. Her work was seen in New York this March at the Guggenheim’s Works and Process show as part of curator Robert Wilson’s, ‘Watermill Quintet’. She will be attending a residency at the Watermill Center in February of 2012. Her personal work, brand Aesthetic Dowsing, is textile sculptures based around the Spring/Fall production schedule of fashion houses.
Anna Telcs holds a BA in Humanities from Seattle University and a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Washington where she received the Boyer Gonzalez Award given to the top design student of the year, presenting her work at the IDSA Western District Conference at Art Center, and was separately awarded an environmental research grant through the Striker Fund. She currently works as a contract assistant stylist for editorial at Nordstrom and has just completed an artist’s residency at Mighty Tieton, WA with performance group Saint Genet.
The Dowsing is a brand born of both performance art and the fashion trade. Like most brands it will perform, and is both time sensitive and irreverent. The A.D. brand will be viewed as textile forms on armatures that act as art artifact and fashion pieces. The forms will be created again each spring and fall season, changing focus and form using the traditional schedule set by fashion houses. The aesthetic will be derived from research, trends, and intuition, always pulled from a specific context. Using texture and process to comment on the forward production of commercial apparel, Aesthetic Dowsing will be making a line of wearable (or not) textile sculptures, working through a history of simple shape pattern making toward more complex hand sewing techniques as developed by early couturiers. From The Watermill Center residency onward the project goes on forever, always 6 months apart, always a new suggestion in palette and form.