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

Performance/Workshop Intensives: visual arts X dance



visual arts X dance
A workshop series programmed by
TINO SEHGAL / LOUISE HÖJER / RIO RUTZINGER

This year, ImPulsTanz – Vienna’s International Dance Festival – extends the dialogue between visual art and contemporary dance, through a unique workshop and research series – visual arts X dance – in close collaboration with the German-British artist Tino Sehgal. Spanning over the entire festival period (14 July – 14 August 2016), the visual arts X dance programme will bring together over fourty ‘pairs’ or ‘groups’ – mostly "blind dates" – of individuals from the field of visual arts working with contemporary dance, making for an intense exchange beyond established genre borders.

visual arts X dance artists:

Pawel Althamer x Meg Stuart
Simone Aughterlony x Jen Rosenblit
Klaus Biesenbach x Tom Stromberg
James Beckett x Renée Copraij
Marcus Bergner x Myriam van Imschoot
David Bloom 
Choreo-graphic Figures: Alex Arteaga x Mariella Greil x Lilia Mestre 
Choreo-graphic Figures: Emma Cocker x Christine de Smedt x Nikolaus Gansterer 
Phil Collins x Andros Zins-Brown
Tacita Dean x Eszter Salamon
Jason Dodge x Krõõt Juurak 
Moriah Evans x Judith Rohrmoser 
Alix Eynaudi x Raimundas Malasauskas 
Christian Falsnaes x Kareth Schaffer
Wolfgang Gantner (Gelitin) x Julia Rublow (beach) 
Mario Garcia Torres x  Maria Francesca Scaroni
Aldo Giannotti x Philippe Riéra / Superamas
Trajal Harrell x Anri Sala
Maria Hassabi x  January Mot
Calla Henkel x Max Pitegoff x Angela Schubot
Louise Hojer
Koo Jeong A x  Jennifer Lacey 
Astrid Kaminski x Christian cobalt
Justin F. Kennedy x  Jeremy Shaw 
Joachim Koester x Ligia Lewis
Adam Linder x Shahryar Nashat
Sebastian Matthias x Jimmy Robert 
Ari Benjamin Meyers 
Thomas Oberender x Hans Ulrich Obrist
Sergei Pristas x Georg Schöllhammer
Asad Raza x Mårten Spångberg x Adrian Villar Rojas 
Vincent Riebeek x Jordan Wolfson
Michele Rizzo