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.

Research: Weaving Codes - Coding Weaves


From 5 - 11 October I will be in Denmark (Copenhagen and then Aarhus) participating in the first phase of the research project Weaving Codes – Coding Weaves. The project will unfold through conversations, presentations and the sharing of practice through a Threads and Modelling Workshop at the Centre for Textile Research, Copenhagen, followed by workshops at the University of Aarhus. With Ellen Harlizius-Klück, Alex McLean, Dave Griffith, Geoff Cox, Eva Andersson Strand, Giovanni Fanfani and Flavia Carraro.