Emma Cocker is a writer-artist and Associate Professor in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research enquiry unfolds at the threshold between writing/art, involving diverse process-oriented, dialogic-collaborative and aesthetic-poetic approaches to working with and through language. Cocker often works in collaboration with other artists on durational projects, where the studio-gallery or site-specific context is approached as a live laboratory for shared artistic research. Cocker’s writing has been published in Failure, 2010; Stillness in a Mobile World, 2010; Drawing a Hypothesis: Figures of Thought, 2011; Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, 2012; On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, 2013; Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line, 2017; The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, 2018; Live Coding: A User's Manual, 2023, and in the solo collections, The Yes of the No, 2016, and How Do You Do?, 2025. Cocker is co-founder of the international Society for Artistic Research Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. See also https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2985-7839

Project: Pay attention to the footnotes (Kuopio)




Pay Attention to the Footnotes, Kuopio (2010)
Emma Cocker (with Open City)

Documented during the timeframe of ANTI festival, Kuopio, Finland
29th September – 3rd October

The documentation attempts to provide a tangential record of the festival, whilst testing a project conceived in relation to urban city space against the site-specificity of Kuopio.

No.1 documented whilst locating Holly Rumble’s One Minute Bird Watching
No.2 documented not far from Rosie Dennis’ Downtown Kuopio
No.3 documented on route to Kira O’ Reilly’s Untitled Bomb Shelter Action for Kuopio, Returning
No.4 documented 12 minutes into Regin Igloria’s The ANTI 10K Run Write Run!
No.5 documented in the vicinity of Caroline Bergvall’s Flag Up
No.6 documented at the site of Maija Hirvanen’s On Ice Anti
No.7 documented round the corner from Sarah van Lamsweerde’s Instant Fiction
No.8 documented 16 hours after Johanna Hällsten’s Everyday Opera