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: Counter Art Book Fair



Counter Art Book Fair
Saturday 24th October 2015, 12 – 6pm
Karst, Plymouth

Clare Thornton and I present our new publication from the project The Italic I at the Counter Art Book Fair, Karst, alongside additional publications both solo and collaborative.

Other exhibitors include: AM Bruno / Antler Press / Arnolfini / As Yet Untitled / Atlantic Press Camberwell College of Arts / Chloe Spicer / Chubby / Clare Rogers / Emma Cocker & Clare Thornton / Fennertown / G . F Smith / Guy Bigland / Hazard Press / HG Makes / Howling Owl Records / Impact Press / KARST Shop / Keiken Collective / Ladies of the Press* / LALALA POMPOM / Mark Leahy / Nathan Walker / OOMK / Pea Robinson & Rachael Jenkins / Pylon Press / Semple Press / STANDING FRAME / The B.L.N.T. Collective / The Chinchilla / The Shipping Press / Uniformbooks / Wotadot