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: Affinities + Urgencies in Language-based Artistic Research (Part II)

Tuesday 15 February 10.00 — 17.30 CET 2022 

Affinities + Urgencies in Language-based Artistic Research (Part II) is a day-long event co-hosted by myself, with Alexander Damianisch, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin, within the frame of the SAR Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. The event extends conversations initiated during Affinities + Urgencies Part I back in December 2021.

 

Sessions will include (more details to follow soon):

* Language-based Artistic Research Practices in Ecologies of [Artistic] Research [and Design]: Initiated by Alex Arteaga: With Rachel Armstrong | Emma Cocker | Christo Doherthy | Anne Mette Frandsen | Hélèn Frichot | Lidia Gasperoni | Luis Guerra | Rolf Hughes | Maiju Luokola | Jane Rendell | Stefan Winter

* Unspeakable Dialogues in a Theatre of Knowledge: Rachel Armstrong | Breg Horemans | Rolf Hughes | Virginia Tassinari

* Language Involution: Sepideh Karami | Rosie Heinrich + others (tbc)

* Words as Matter - Alchemical Operations on Words: Mariana Renthel | Anouilh Hoogendoorn | Rachel Smith + others (tbc)

* ELIA-Islanded Practice-Based Literary Research?: Elina Mikkilä


Documentation/recordings of this event can be found here.