Reading/Feeling is a new publication based on a series of
international reading groups linked to the Amsterdam based project If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to be Part of Your
Revolution (IICD). Building on intellectual paradigms such as performativity,
theatricality and feminism(s), it interrogates
ideas of affect in relation to art practice, the
construction of subjectivity and the politics of identity. At the invitation of IICD, I hosted a reading
group at Site Gallery in Sheffield (February - May 2012), concurrently with
reading groups in Amsterdam (led by Tanja Badoin) and Toronto (led Jacob
Korczynski). Reading/Feeling brings together a collection of texts
interrogated within these reading groups, alongside a number of framing texts / position essays from the
reading group facilitators. Reading/Feeling follows the model of a
previously published reader, (Mis)reading Masquerades
, (eds.)
Frédérique Bergholtz and Iberia Pérez
, produced by IICD in
collaboration with Dutch Art Institute and Piet Zwart Institute, and will be
launched as part of a symposium in Amsterdam in January. Below is my text
'Reading Towards Becoming Causal' which will be published as one of the
introductory essays for this publication.
- emma cocker
- Emma Cocker is a writer-artist whose research focuses on artistic processes and practices, and the performing of thinking-in-action therein. Cocker’s language-based artistic research comprises a matrix of writing, reading and conversation practices, including diverse process-oriented, dialogic-collaborative and aesthetic-poetic approaches to working with and through language. 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?, 2024. Cocker is co-founder of the international Society for Artistic Research Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. She is Associate Professor in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University.