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

Collaboration: Tacturiency - Game of Resonance



Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, Tacturiency - Game of Resonance, 2012.

Tacturiency - Game of Resonance (2012) is one of a series of works made in collaboration with Clare Thornton as part of our developing project, Tacturiency. The video was produced during Summer Lodge at Nottingham Trent University, July 2012, with the assistance of Christine Stevens. Supported by Nottingham Trent University and Spike Associates & Turning Point South West Curatorial & Travel Bursaries.