Emma Cocker is a writer-artist whose research focuses on artistic processes and practices, and the performing of thinking-in-action therein. Cocker’s language-based artistic research comprises a matrix of writing, reading and conversation practices, including diverse process-oriented, dialogic-collaborative and aesthetic-poetic approaches to working with and through language. 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?, 2024. Cocker is co-founder of the international Society for Artistic Research Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. She is Associate Professor in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University.

Publication: Creativity



The transcript from a panel discussion Creativity And The Artist, with Jessica Ball,  Alison Churchill, Emma Cocker and Hester Reeve (that took place on Saturday August 14, 2021 as part of the extended summer seminar series organised by the Pari Centre, Beyond Bohm: Science, Order And Creativity) has been published in Issue Issue 11 of Pari Perspectives which explores the topic of ‘Creativity.'


About this Special Issue of Pari Perspectives

The idea for an issue on Creativity began in August 2021 when the Pari Center hosted an online series of webinars named ‘Beyond Bohm.’ In Part 2 of this series, ‘Contemplation and Creativity,’ the non-scientific aspects of David Bohm’s interests and life’s work were examined and discussed—creativity, consciousness, philosophy, imagination, dialogue, indigenous wisdom, language, art, and education. A number of the presenters have kindly allowed us to use their talks, transcribed for this issue. In addition, we have included excerpts from a talk that Bohm delivered before the London Architectural Association in 1967. The complete talk now appears as the title essay in his book On Creativity, Routledge Classics, 2004. More about Pari Perspectives here.