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

Research event: SARN Parenthesis

In November I presented a performance presentation (in collaboration with Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil) as part of 'Parenthesis', an un-conference organised by SARN (Swiss Artistic Research Network), taking place at HEAD, Geneva University of Art and Design, 6-7 November 2014. In our presentation (see documentation below) we shared findings from our research project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line, by presenting a 'version' of the project's 'Method Lab' in the form of a hybrid lecture involving live performance, drawing and the spoken word.





Documentation of installation as part of SARN. Photographs: Emma Cocker.

Below are further details and the full programme for the SARN (Swiss Artistic Research Network) unconference.