amy pickles is an artist and organiser. She used to make work about colonial infrastructures and their implications in communication technologies. Then she got stuck on the Cold War and her obsessions shifted into geopolitical metanarratives of this time and their repercussions on our current existences. Parts of the Cold War she is fixated on are; the artist as ideological messenger, 'democracy' and espionage, electronic battlegrounds, neuroscience and behavioural psychology in corporate management. She experiments with all of this by taking collective study as a form for her work. Recently studying has been articulated in games. She collects debris from these experiences and reconfigures it as experimental writing, sculpture, print, performance, sound and film.

She is a member of Varia and Filmwerkplaats, both in Rotterdam NL. Together with Clara J:son Borg she facilitates Performance Lab

+31 (0)6 27 97 82 12
amypickles@tuta.io

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selected education

2022 — Advanced Performance & Scenography Studies (a.pass) - Postgraduate Programme, Brussels BE
2018 — Master of Education Cum Laude - Master Education in Art at The Piet Zwart Institute NL
2013 — Bachelor Sculpture and Environmental Art 1st Class Honours - Glasgow School of Art UK

selected performances, broadcasts & screenings

2025 — Chantal for 'Mutually Transformable' (screening) - Qfest, Split HR
2024 — Waiting rooms for Doom (broadcast) w/ Chloë Janssens - Q-O2 & Radio Lyl
2023 — Chantal for ‘Here, The Levels’ (screening) - Le Quartier, Den Haag & Attent, Rotterdam, NL
2022 — Streaming with Infrafem (broadcast) w/ Pukllasunchi & Clara Balaguer - Varia, Rotterdam NL
2022 — alternative echelons for ‘Commoning Thread’ (online screening) - The New Flesh & First Cut. UK & NL
2022 — Der bien und der Garten (online screening) w/ Michaela Lakova & Bérénice Staiger - TENT Rotterdam NL
2021 — Der bien und der Garten for ‘Future Oracles’ (screening) - Sofia Art Week, Goethe Institut Sofia, BG
2020 — alternative echelons (performance) - UBIK Theatre WORM, Rotterdam NL
2020 — author (broadcast) - Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, Amsterdam NL
2019 — Ecstatic Speech (performance) - PrintRoom, Rotterdam NL
2019 — Eeeaarrrruuuuugggghhhaaaa (broadcast) - Radiophrenia, Glasgow, UK

selected group exhibitions

2025 — Landscape, disrupted curator Şirin Bahar Demire - Concordia, Enschede NL
2025 — the place where i run your mouths for extended periods of time. - Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam NL
2022 — demolition damage deviation desire - Meyboom Artist-run Spaces, Brussels BE
2021 — Down, Dwars, Dela - Constant at SEE U, Brussels BE
2021 — On Coloniality - KBK, Brussels BE
2019 — Practicing Concern curators L. A. Hindmarsh & Kirsty Russell - APT Gallery, London UK

selected workshops

2026 — Dissenting Decisions for Supporting Act(s) - Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL
2025 — Dissenting Decisions — Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam NL
2024 — Dissenting Decisions for 'coming times' by undercurrent - press.a, Athens GR
2024 — drawing with feeling, seeing by speaking - Parramatta Artists' Studios Open Day, Sydney AU
2024 — Scratch Night - Parramatta Artists' Studios, Sydney AU
2024 — Deciding Who You Are, after Adrian for 'The Spring Academy' - Zürich University of the Arts CH
2023 — Network Topologies and Imagining Interfaces w/ Chinouk Filique for ArtEZ Fashion & Digital Literacy - Varia, Rotterdam NL
2022 — Getting into character/s w/ Chloë Janssens - Zsenne Art Lab, Brussels BE
2022 — needs that feed for ‘Hear! Here!’ - Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam NL
2022 — An (In)audible Chorus w/ Jonathan Reus & Cristina Cochior - CTM Festival, Berlin DE
2021 — A tune in for ‘Any|One Day the Future Has Died...’ w/ Cristina Cochior & Aggeliki Diakrousi - Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig DE
2021 — Reading & Repairing w/ Joana Chicau & Cristina Cochior - Page Not Found & Reading Room, Den Haag NL
2021 — Loop the LoopS - VISUAL, Carlow Arts Centre IE
2019 — politics of transcription - Hordaland Kunstsenter & Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst, Bergen NO
2019 — Say it ain’t so for ‘Urgent Publishing’ w/ Cristina Cochior - Institute of Network Cultures, Arnhem NL

selected writing

2025 — Shared Infrastructures: a conversation on art and education at the Rijksakademie (publication contribution) w/ Ashfika Raman, Maksud Ali Mondal, Choi Hyong-uk, Silvia Gatti, Andrea Elera & Emily Pethick for On Education - Pub. Amant Foundation
2024 — obligations of party poopers. (essay for publication) for ‘Epistemic Imaginaries: Learning as Festivity’ Ed. Katía Truijen and Brandon LaBelle - Pub. Errant Bodies Press
2023 — Put the shell up to your ear and listen (essay) - Pub. Even Horizon Publications
2022 — Notes after On Coloniality (essay for reader) w/ Chloë Janssens & Túlio Rosa for ‘In these circumstances’ Ed. Philippine Hoegen - Pub. Onomatopee Projects
2021 — Memory as Palimpsest? (essay for publication) w/ Sofia Boschat-Thorez - Pub. PUB Sandberg Instituut
2021 — paralanguages (essay for reader) for ‘Situationer Workbook Cookbook’ Ed. Michelle Teran & Teana Boston-Mammah - Pub. Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA)
2020 — author (online publication) Ed. Kate Briggs & Isabelle Sully contributors Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Martin Gugger & Arvand Pourabbasi - Pub. Hybrid Publishing WdKA

selected publications & editing

2025 — Ed. 'SumTimes' (publication) w/ Czarina Calinawagan - Pub. Varia
2024 — Ed. 'Self-organised Spreads’ (publication) W/ Alice Strete - Pub. Varia
2024 — 'Becoming Stones’ (subtitles) - for Yunjoo Kwak
2022 — Copy Ed. ‘A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers’ (publication) - for Cristina Cochior & Alice Strete
2022 — ‘Geopolitical Costume’ w/ Ceschi + Lane (online publication) - Pub. The New Flesh & First Cut
2021 — Copy Ed. ‘Anthropomorphic Trouble’ (publication) - by Adrijana Gvozdenović & Goda Palekaitė
2021 — Ed. ‘Workshop on Obfuscation Post-Script’ (publication) - by Ero Balsa, Seda Gürses & Jara Rocha
2020 — Ed. ‘Plotting Data’ (online publication) - by Cristina Cochior & Ruben van de Ven

selected teaching positions

2021 - 23 — Faculty of Autonomous Practices, tutor of ‘Hacking’ & ‘Critical Studies’
Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA), Hogeschool Rotterdam NL
2021 - 23 — Graduation Project Supervisor for Master Experimental Publishing
The Piet Zwart Institute WdKA, Hogeschool Rotterdam NL
2021 - 22 — Faculty of Transformation Design, theory tutor
WdKA, Hogeschool Rotterdam NL

selected residencies & programmes

2024 - 26 — Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam NL
2024 — Parramatta Artists’ Studios (PAS) Residency w/ L. A. Hindmarsh, Sydney AU
2023 — Q-O2 residency w/ Chloë Janssens, Brussels BE
2021 — Down, Dwars, Dela Worksession - Constant, Brussels BE
2019 — Hordaland Kunstsenter Writing Residency, Bergen NO
2019 — Marionnettiste Corporel, Dirige par Claire Heggen, Paris FR
2019 — Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Scotland UK (Emerging Artist Award)
2017 — Performance Micro-Residency - Market Gallery, Glasgow UK
2017 — Curatorial Curriculum - Grand Union, Birmingham UK
2016 — Community Out of Bounds Residency w/ Tom Butterworth, Aberdeen UK
2016 — CCA Creative Lab w/ Sally Hackett and our Mums, Sara Dent & Lindy Richardson, Glasgow UK
2016 — Snetha Autum/Winter Residency, Athens GR

selected awards & grants

2024 - 26 — Stimulerings 2 year Activities Programme Grant (Varia)
2021 - 24 — Stimulerings 1 year Activities Programme Grant (Varia)
2021 — Stichting Droom en Daad Makersloket (Der bien und der Garten)
2020 — Gemeente Rotterdam Bioscoop Subsidie (alternative echelons)
2020 - 23 — Gemeente Rotterdam Cultural Funding (Read & Repair)
2019 - 21 — Gemeente Rotterdam Cultural Project Funding (Performance Lab)
2019 — CBK IBB Travel Fund
2018 — CBK O&O Research Grant
2018 — WdKA Hybrid Publishing Award
2018 — WdKA Master Artistic Research Award

recent organising

2026 — 'The Peculiar Supply Chain of Data: Data Centres as Infrastructures of Empire' (lecture) w/ Czarina Calinawagan & Yan Cong of SocTalk - Varia, Rotterdam NL Guests Reem Al-Masri, Yung Au, Artemis Gryllaki & Jill Toh
2025 — 'Cold War Current' (event series) w/ Antye Guenther - Varia Guests Francis Hunger & NDNMK Solutions aka Djatá Bart-Plange
2025 — ‘How to Organise?’ (gathering) w/ Alice Strete - Varia Guests Spring Pears, Hackers & Designers, Extra Practice, Re-peat, Hum Drum Press, Feministas en Rotterdam and Desirable Futures Playground
2025 — 'Investigative Journalism workshop' w/ Luke Murphy - Varia Guest Naima Cornelia
2024 — 'Game & Watch'(event series) w/ Czarina Calinawagan, Benjamin Earl & Antye Guenther - Varia Games & films from Balay Habi Collective, 'Never Alone, Kisima Innitchuna' 'Colonization' , 'Eolomea' 'The Bed Sitting Room' & 'Out of the Unknown'
2023 — ‘Doing the Dishes and then Revolution’ (workshop and public presentation) w/ Czarina Calinawagan, Benjamin Earl, Niek Hilkmann, Antye Guenther & Alice Strete - Varia Guests Feministas en Rotterdam, Hackers & Designers, Marloes de Valk, SARMAD Magazine & Soupspoon Collective
2022 - 26 — ‘Colonial Infrastructures worksessions’ w/ Sofia Boschat-Thorez & Czarina Calinawagan - Varia Guests Yen Yi Lee, Yi Zhang, Chinouk Filique de Miranda, Denzel Veerkamp, Yeon Sung, Czarina Calinawagan, Arthur Asseraf, Miriyam Aouragh & Yasmine Boudiaf. Films from Bo Wang, Riar Rizaldi, Simnikiwe Buhlungu & Tessa Mars
2022 — ‘A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers’ (gathering) w/ Julia Bande, Manetta Berends, Cristina Cochior & Alice Strete - Varia Guests Gabi Dao, Danae Tapia & Spideralex
2021 — ‘On Coloniality’ (symposium) w/ Chloë Janssens & Túlio Rosa - a.pass & KBK Brussels BE Guests Jeyanthy Siva, EZLN Delegation (Gira por la Vida,) WORKNOT! X Sarmad, Daniela Ortiz, Saddie Choua, Satch Hoyt, Sami Hammana, Glicéria Tupinambá, Line Algoed, Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano, Elodie Mugrefya, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Helena Vieira & the Institute of Colonial Culture
2021 — Curatorial Assistance - ‘That Might Be Right’ (reading group) w/ Paoletta Holst & Rob Ritzen - Beursschouwburg, Brussels BE Guests Seda Gürses & Gloria Gonzalez Fuster
2020 - 23 — ‘Read & Repair’ (workshop series) w/ Cristina Cochior - Varia Guests eeefff, Vijai Maia Patchineelam, Gordon Douglas, Lídia Pereira, Sarah Hamadeh, Toon Fibbe, Bérénice Staiger, elodie mugrefya, Amy Suo Wu, Jara Rocha, Yoana Buzova, Katarina Jazbec, MELT, Cannach Macbride, Yun Lee, Augustina Woodgate and more
2019 - 24 — ‘Performance Lab’ (workshop series) w/ Clara J:son Borg Guests Josefin Arnell, Eleanor Bauer, Samah Hijawii, Mavi Veloso & Joy Mariama Smith

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