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: Doing Together

Between 3-4 April 2023, I was at Bath Spa University as an invited ‘ethnographer’ or interlocutor to observe the unfolding “doing together” symposium, and initiate conversation as a plenary session.

Issues in Creative Practice: doing together

3rd-4th April 2023

Locksbrook Road Campus, Bath

 

doing together is a two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries and the Art Research Centre (School of Art, Film and Media).
 
This Issues in Creative Practice Symposium will host approximately 20 practical workshops, delivered by staff and PGR students from across the University. Workshops will share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice through doing together. 

doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with others from across the university.  During this two-day event we will test out ways of doing work together, making our practice-based research explicit.