I will be presenting my conference paper, 'Kairos
Time: The Performativity of Timing and Timeliness … or; Between Biding One’s
Time and Knowing When to Act', at the forthcoming first PARSE biennial research conference at the Faculty
of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, running
November 4–6, which takes as its point of departure the question of
"TIME." Speakers include Bruno Latour, Simon Critchley,
Simonetta Carbonaro, Coco Fusco, Jalal Toufic, The Otolith Group, Flat Time
House and Vermeir & Hieremans. Please follow these links for
information about the conference structure and the draft timetable, featuring links to the
presenters of the Conference.
- emma cocker
- 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