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.

Video work: Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis




I have recently been working with Nikolaus Gansterer on a video version of our collaborative performance reading, Drawing on Drawing a Hypothesis, which will be presented as part of Nikolaus’ solo show When Thought Becomes Matter and Matter Turns into Thought, at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria from 7 June - 31 July 2013. Video extracts will be posted here shortly. A catalogue will be published and presented at the opening with text
 by Christiane Krejs, Karin Harrasser, Andreas Spiegl and Emma Cocker.
 Catalogue design by Simona Koch. The video will also be shown as part of the AGORA, the Athens Biennale at the building of the former Athens Stock Exchange, Greece, 29 Sept – 1 Dec 2013


Other related links
An interview between Nikolaus and the Drawing Center’s (NY) Curatorial Assistant Nova Benway discussing the generative potential of diagrams and the Drawing a Hypothesis project (in advance of Nikolaus' show Drafts Phase III [Information Transmission - Bodies of Evidence] at the Drawing Centre) can also be read online here.