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: Convocation - A Gathering of Language-based Artistic Research


LINK TO programme here.

  

Taking place at the Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts in Vienna (3 – 6 October 2023), CONVOCATION II was a gathering of expanded language-based artistic research hosted by the Society of Artistic Research Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. Rather than a public conference or symposium as such, CONVOCATION II had a more personal format, allowing for exchange and conversation between the 65 contributors, especially through a process of ‘practice sharing’. The focus of CONVOCATION II was on language-based artistic research “practices”. How can we share research “practices”? What new formats and models might be required? What happens as different practices are brought into relation, into dialogue, into proximity? How might we practise together? 

 

With contributions from: Gretel Acosta -- Louise Adkins -- adO/Aptive (Barnabás Bácsi, Mel Sasha Berger, Martin Gius, Melanie Haberl, Daniel Hüttler, Saara Hukka & Janina Weißengruber) -- Ruth Anderwald & Leonhard Grond – Katrina Brown & Emma Cocker -- Julia Calver -- Beverley Carruthers -- Delphine Chapuis Schmitz & Ines Marita Schärer -- Cordula Daus & Charlotta Ruth -- (D)raft ( Sarah Jackson, Delphine Grass, Helena Hunter, Hannah van Hove, and Maria Gil Ulldemolins) -- Bogdan Florea & Ileana Gherghina -- Gabrielė Gervickaitė -- Sara Gomez -- Miriana Faieta -- Rob Flint -- Sabina Holzer -- Anouk Hoogendoorn & Mariana Renthel -- Sophie Hope & Henry Mulhall -- Benjamin Jenner -- Aleksandra Komsta & Cecilie Fang -- Linnea Langfjord Kristensen -- Wiebke Leister -- Barb Macek -- Tatjana Macić -- Cristiana de Marchi -- Elke Mark -- Adelheid Mers -- Antrianna Moutoula -- Anna Nygren -- Elena Peytchinska & Thomas Ballhausen -- Emílio Remelhe -- Simon Roloff -- Lena Séraphin -- Erika Tsimbrovsky --  The un | common ground collective (Regina Dürig, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Phoenix Savage) -- Litó Walkey -- Kai Ziegner. 

  

CONVOCATION II was co-organised by Emma Cocker, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin, with the support of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung.