amy pickles

educatie - film - geluid - performance - digitale technologie

amy pickles is an artist, organiser 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 restage debris from collective learning. Debris is transmitted as experimental writing, sculpture, print, performance, radio and film. She is a member of Varia and co-organiser of Performance Lab.

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    Project

    • 01-01-2019 t/m 31-10-2020
    • In samenwerking met: Hybrid Publishing WdKA, NL, Hordaland Kunstsenter Writing Residency, NO, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, UK.
    • Locatie: 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 organised 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

    Lezing

    • 10-11-2021 t/m 13-11-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Chloë Janssens and Túlio Rosa for a.pass
    • Locatie: 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 Algoed, Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano, elodie mugrefya, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Helena Vieira.
    • https://apass.be/on-coloniality/

    Performance Lab

    Project

    • 01-05-2018 t/m 30-06-2024
    • In samenwerking met: Clara J:son Borg, supported by Gemeente Rotterdam
    • Locatie: 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 programme will consist of two workshops and presentations with Josefin Arnell and Samah Hijawi.
    • https://performancelab.ga/

    Waiting Rooms for Doom

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-02-2023 t/m 31-07-2024
    • In samenwerking met: Chloë Janssens
    • Locatie: Q-O2, Brussel
    • 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 vaporising as nitrogen oxide.

    Getting into character/s

    • 01-10-2023 t/m 31-10-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Chloë Janssens
    • Locatie: Zsenne Art Lab, Brussel
    • 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

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 28-03-2021 t/m 03-04-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Ceschi + Lane, for The New Flesh and First Cut
    • Locatie: (online publication and screening), Den Haag NL and London UK
    • "In these films, we encounter bodies performing in highly politicised 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 pasts events and relics of violent occupations".
    • https://new-flesh.com/Geopolitical-Costume-Conversation

    Erkenningen

      Stipendium

    • Gemeente Rotterdam Bioscoop Subsidie (alternative echelons)

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • Gemeente Rotterdam Cultural Funding (Read and Repair and Performance Lab)

    • 2019
      Stipendium

    • CBK O O Research Grant

    • 2018
      Prijs

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

    • 2018
      Prijs

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

    • 2018
      Publicatie

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

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

    • Notes after On Coloniality in ‘In these circumstances’

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

    • Memory as Palimpsest?

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

    • paralanguages, in ‘Situationer Workbook Cookbook’

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

    • author

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

    • collaboration is in ‘speakerspeaker’

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