Initiated by Julieanna Preston, Word Weathers is an interactive durational writing performance that considers the radical nature of now-ness as a temporal state of atmospheric contingency bound by location, observation and critical reflection on the state of a biosphere in crisis. Over the course of 24 hours, a full rotation of the earth, on 21 June 2022 – the Winter/Summer solstice – we collaborate, write, read, image, sound, respond, edit, augment and supplement a single continuous text and mark-making performance visible to all event participants. This online performance writing exchange will include others situated around the globe to participate as guests to watch and record their weather. Our collective efforts will be to become weather: to mark the moment of transition from navigational, geographical and meteorological thought and the emergence of an extended dawn around the globe.
Participating Weather Artist-Writers
Tru Paraha (Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland); Ana Iti (Ōtautahi Christchurch); Azza Zein (Melbourne); Jordan Lacey (Melbourne); Melody Woodnutt (Melbourne); Jo Pollitt (Boorloo/Perth); Moza Almatrooshi (Sharjah); Sree (Abu Dhabi); Alina Tiphagne (New Delhi); Indrajan Banerjee (New Delhi); Muay Parivudhiphongs (Bangkok); Anna Kazumi-Stahl (Buenos Aires); Felipe Cervera (Singapore); Mary Ann Josette Pernia (Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila); Ysabelle Cheung (Hong Kong); Yang Yeung (Hong Kong); Peter Goche (Ames); Klara du Plessis (Montreal); Emma Telaro (Montreal); Việt Lê (San Francisco); Iwonka Piotrowska (Bar Harbour, Maine); Lin Snelling (Toronto); Molly Samsell (Sante Fe); Sans Soleil (Lima); Janine Eisenächer (Berlin); Anthony Kroytor and Jia Qian Yu (Vienna); P. A. Skantze (Italy); Katja Hilevaara (London); Daphne Dragona (Athens); Kris Pint (Diest); Maria Gil Ulldemolins (Brussels); Emma Cocker (Sheffield); Polly Gould (Newcastle); Felicia Konrad (Mälmo); Paula Toppila (Helsinki).
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- 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