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

Event: The Italic I - Performance Reading


The Italic I

Emma Cocker + Clare Thornton

Project Space Plus, Lincoln School of Fine & Performing Arts

 Publication Launch Event + Performance Reading

Tuesday 11 November, 17.30 - 19.30, 18.00 Performance Reading
In conjunction with the exhibition The Italic I at project space plus, Cocker and Thornton have produced an artists’ publication, which they will also present in the form of a performance reading.
The publication is available to purchase - £8.00 inc P+P. For more information contact - emma.cocker@ntu.ac.uk. Images below: The Italic I, Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, 2014. Photographs: Tom Hemming.