In early April 2024, I was in Totnes working with Katrina Brown, as part of our ongoing collaboration Dorsal Practices. Specifically, we were working on how we might now evolve our project through different forms of sharing (with others) including live activations of our ‘dorsal practices’ (the three-fold relation of movement-based, conversation and experimental reading practices), as well as developing ideas for future publication. During the week, we were testing out how to bring our various practices into proximity through live activation within a studio space context, which we were also able to pilot with invited guests Rosanna Irvine and Mark Leahy. More about our collaboration Dorsal Practices can be found here.
- emma cocker
- 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.