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

Dialogue - part of The Sense of Common Self


In June 2024, I will be at UniArts, Helsinki as part of the project The Sense of Common Self led by artistic researcher Alex Arteaga (within the wider research framework, How to Live Together in Sound? Toward Sonic Democracy). Along with artist-researcher Kirsi Heimonen, over the last months I have been in conversation with Alex to support the development of an experimental research event that he is currently evolving for exploring ‘dialogue in the dark’. This event will take place at UniArts on the 4 June 2024. More on Arteaga's project The Sense of Common Self here More details to follow.