amy pickles

education - film - sound - performance - digital technology

Amy Pickles is an artist, organizer and educator. She experiments with ways to hold onto, and consider, colonial infrastructures we are a part of by studying topographies, intentions and misuses of communication technologies. Studying is both form and content of her practice, which is articulated as curriculum, workshop, symposium or works that reconfigure and restore debris from collective learning. Debris is transmitted as experimental writing, sculpture, print, performance, radio and film. She is a member of Varia and co-organizer of Performance Lab.

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    • author

    Project

    • 01-01-2019 t/m 31-10-2020
    • In collaboration with: Hybrid Publishing WdKA, NL, Hordaland Kunstsenter Writing Residency, NO, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, UK.
    • Location: WdKA, Rotterdam
    • The library contains resources and documentation from roughly one year of experiments in art education. Digital matter is classified as debris, it results from choreographed, collective working and is organized around it's relation to the writer (copied, stolen, found, gift, bought and repurposed) in effort to give attention to networks of learning. The work considers what a learning environment is. It grew from a failed project to make a physical studio space inside an art academy.
    • https://www.who-is-the-author.me

    On Coloniality

    Reading

    • 10-11-2021 t/m 13-11-2021
    • In collaboration with: Chloë Janssens and Túlio Rosa for a.pass
    • Location: KBK Brussels, Brussels
    • On Coloniality' was a temporary context for collective study. To learn, from creative practices and writing, about coloniality's manifold dimensions. Guests included; Jeyanthy Siva, EZLN Delegation (Gira por la Vida,) WORKNOT! X Sarmad (Alireza Abbasy, Golnar Abbasi, Arvand Pourabbasi) Daniela Ortiz, Saddie Choua, Satch Hoyt, Sami Hammana, Glicéria Tupinambá, Vermeir & Heiremans, Line Alblo, Elodo Bjarana, Hugrefy, Hugrefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefy, Bjonnefya, Bjonnefya, Bjonnefya, Bjonnefya, Bjonnefy, Bjaran, Bjaran, Bjarano, Bjarano ieira.
    • https://apass.be/on-coloniality/

    PerformanceLab

    Project

    • 01-05-2018 t/m 30-06-2024
    • In collaboration with: Clara J:son Borg, supported by the Municipality of Rotterdam
    • Location: Time Window, Dansateliers, WORM, WET Film, Dokhuis, Rotterdam
    • Performance Lab Workshops are a series of events in Rotterdam, facilitated by Clara J:son Borg and amy pickles, where invited artists share spaces of their performance practice in educational workshops. Between September and December 2019, Eleanor Bauer, Mavi Veloso and Joy Mariama Smith shared aspects of their performance practice in educational workshops. In 2024 the program will consist of two workshops and presentations with Josefin Arnell and Samah Hijawi.
    • https://performancelab.ga/

    Waiting Rooms for Doom

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-02-2023 t/m 31-07-2024
    • In collaboration with: Chloë Janssens
    • Location: Q-O2, Brussels
    • Ongoing project. Two reporters are speaking from the inside. They witness characters emerging out of architectures and submerged city infrastructures, they register these coded signs in a highly subjective manner. They squeeze themselves into spaces and roles that cannot contain a human form, such as sinking through polluted, radioactive soil, being transmitted through an undersea internet cable and vaporizing as nitrogen oxide.

    Getting into character/s

    • 01-10-2023 t/m 31-10-2023
    • In collaboration with: Chloë Janssens
    • Location: Zsenne Art Lab, Brussels
    • three evenings of rituals and writing to work through difficulties, embarrassments and discomfort of composing words as someone else. The evenings were for individual work, but undertaken in a collective setting.

    Geopolitical Costume Conversation

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 28-03-2021 t/m 03-04-2021
    • In collaboration with: Ceschi + Lane, for The New Flesh and First Cut
    • Location: (online publication and screening), The Hague NL and London UK
    • "In these films, we encounter bodies performing in highly politicized landscapes. Rituals, gestures, interactions, and choreographies act as critical interventions in space to challenge territorial and cultural dominance. Memory is at the core of both these works, whose narrative runs through echoes of past events and relics of violent occupations".
    • https://new-flesh.com/Geopolitical-Costume-Conversation

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Municipality of Rotterdam Cinema Subsidy (alternative echelons)

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Municipality of Rotterdam Cultural Funding (Read and Repair and Performance Lab)

    • 2019
      Scholarship

    • CBK OO Research Grant

    • 2018
      Pricing

    • Master Research Award, The Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy

    • 2018
      Pricing

    • Hybrid Publishing Award, The Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy

    • 2018
      Publication

    • obligations of party poopers. in 'Epistemic Imaginaries: Learning as Festivity'

    • 2023
    • (essay for upcoming publication)
    • Errant Bodies Press - Katía Truijen and Brandon LaBelle
      Publication

    • Notes after On Coloniality in 'In these circumstances'

    • 2022
    • (essay for reader)
    • Onomatopee Projects - Written with Chloë Janssens and Túlio Rosa. Editor Philippine Hoegen
      Publication

    • Memory as Palimpsest?

    • 2021
    • (essay for publication)
    • PUB Sandberg Institute - Written with Sofia Boschat-Thorez. Editors Micaela Terk and Hannah Rose Whittle
      Publication

    • paralanguages, in 'Situationer Workbook Cookbook'

    • 2021
    • (essay for reader)
    • Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) - Michelle Teran and Teana Boston-Mammah
      Publication

    • author

    • 2020
    • (online publication)
    • Hybrid Publishing WdKA - Contributors Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Martin Gugger and Arvand Pourabbasi. Editors Kate Briggs and Isabelle Sully
      Publication

    • collaboration is in 'speakerspeaker'

    • 2019
    • (essay for publication)
    • speakerspeaker - gentian rhosa meikleham