In March 2021 I was invited as a ‘guest critic’ on the Critical Spatial Practice: Site-Writing module within the frame of the MA Situated Practices at Bartlett. This module explores site-writing as a form of critical spatial practice from a transdisciplinary perspective focusing on exploring: (1) Questions of positionality and subjectivity through the adoption of particular kinds of voices in relation to space, place and site; (2) Different spatial approaches to writing through the positioning of words on the page and in other sites; (3) Different voices in relation to space, place and site and a range of different approaches to the positioning of words on and off the page and in situated spatial configurations.
- 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