Emma Cocker is a writer, artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art. Operating under the title Not Yet There, her enquiry focuses on exploring models of (art) practice and subjectivity, which resist or refuse the pressure of a single or stable position by remaining willfully unresolved. As a practice-based enquiry, Not Yet There is shaped by an interdisciplinary, hybridized approach, operating restlessly along the threshold of writing/art. Whilst embracing the potential of the essayistic (as a tentative attempt or trial), Cocker’s practice also includes experimental, performative and collaborative approaches for producing texts about, parallel to and as art practice. Processes of condensation, extraction, fragmentation, listing, footnoting, cross-referencing and appropriation are adopted as critical methods for art-writing, alongside the cultivation of a serialized form of prose-poetry collectively entitled Condensations.

Saturday, 14 July 2012

Collaboration: Tacturiency (at Summer Lodge)

Below are images from Tacturiency (a collaborative project that I am developing with Clare Thornton) produced in the context of a one-week 'residency' at Summer Lodge, NTU, 2012, with the excellent support/involvement of intern, Christine Stevens. Further documentation of Tacturiency at Summer Lodge can be found here. 

In Games of Resonance, Cocker and Thornton appear as operatives engaged in a series of opaque or ambiguous tasks, whose visual poetics reside somewhere between séance and shiftwork. The table becomes a conversational space for playing out the productive frictions and desired points of difficulty within collaboration, performed through a visual/gestural language that is heightened yet economic, minimal yet baroque.


Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, Game of Resonance (Soul Partition), 2012
Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, Game of Resonance (Soul Partition), 2012



Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, Game of Resonance (Torque of Collaboration), 2012
Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, Game of Resonance (Torque of Collaboration), 2012