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

Exhibition: Understanding and Research


MAK Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
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Opening: 27 June 2019, 19:00
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Duration: 28 June- 28 July 2019
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The University of Applied Arts Vienna presents exemplary approaches to its artistic research under the title UNDERSTANDING + RESEARCH,  it is about understanding as the very creative impulse. Through examples from research and teaching, science and art the transformation of society can
be viewed, examined, sensed, discussed and experienced. Amongst others the research project Choreo-graphic Figures by Emma Cocker, Nikolaus and Mariella Greil will be presented.

The exhibition UNDERSTANDING - ART & RESEARCH, curated by Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch and Barbara Putz-Plecko, now at MAK Vienna had first stations in New Zealand (Dunedin School of Art), Singapore (Nanyang Technological  University Singapore), and Los Angeles (UCLA ArtSci Center).