Emma Cocker is a writer-artist based in Sheffield and Associate Professor in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Operating under the title Not Yet There, Cocker's research focuses on the process of artistic exploration and the performing of ‘thinking-in-action’ emerging therein; on models of (art) practice and subjectivity that resist the pressure of a single, stable position by remaining wilfully unresolved. Her mode of working unfolds restlessly along the threshold between writing/art, including experimental, performative and collaborative approaches to producing texts parallel to and as art practice. Cocker's recent 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; Reading/Feeling (Affect), 2013; On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, 2013; Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line, 2017; The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, and as a solo collection entitled The Yes of the No, 2016.

Publication: Revolve:R


Revolve:R
Revolve: Meditate, Rotate, Muse, Twist, Turn Over In Mind


Revolve:R is a collaborative project in visual correspondence, curated by Sam Treadaway and Ricarda Vidal in collaboration with a number of international artists,  based throughout Europe and the USA, which culminates in the publishing of a limited edition bookwork. The project explores the possibilities of an exchange of ideas via a visual and tactile – rather than virtual and digital – form of communication. As site and source of collaborative experimentation for diverse artistic practices, Revolve:R is a vehicle for a new collective language, made physical in the shape of the Revolve:R bookwork.

 Artists

Diana Ali, Todd DiCiurcio, Patrick Galway, Verena Hägler, Alice Hendy, Antun Maračić, Leila Peacock, Domingo Martínez, Bernd Reichert, Matt Rowe, Emily Speed, Clare Thornton & Emma Cocker, Sam Treadaway, Linnea Vedder, Ricarda Vidal, and the mathematician Oscar Bandtlow.

Revolve:R can be purchased at the forthcoming BABE 13 artists book fair at Arnolfini Gallery. 20th – 21st / April / 2013 or online here.




Text: Tactics for Not Knowing: Preparing for the Unexpected



Below is my essay Tactics for Not Knowing: Preparing for the Unexpected commissioned for the forthcoming publication, On Not Knowing: How Artists Think (eds.) Rebecca Fortnum and Elizabeth Fisher (Black Dog Publishing, 2013), which will be presented alongside two collaborative artists' pages (The Italic I, from my collaboration with Clare Thornton, and Re-  performance extracts from my collaboration with Rachel Lois Clapham). More details on the publication to follow soon.





Book Launch: Reading/Feeling




Above are images from the launch event that I organised at Site Gallery for the publication Reading/Feeling, a new reader that considers the meaning of affect in theory and artistic practice, programmed in conjunction with artist Anna Barham’s residency Suppose I Call a Man a Horse, or a Horse a Man? The publication Reading/Feeling draws together a selection of texts by theoreticians, artists and curators that were read in If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution’s reading groups taking place in Amsterdam, Sheffield and Toronto over the past two years, alongside newly commissioned essays from Tanja Baudoin, Emma Cocker, and Jacob Korczynski and contributions by reading group members including Stephen Bowler, Alison J Carr, Belen Cerezo, Victoria Gray, Linda Kemp, Hester Reeve and Julie Swallow. The Sheffield reading group took place at Site Gallery in dialogue with the exhibition Of All Possible Things by Jeremiah Day, who also contributed to the Reading/Feeling publication. Reading/Feeling was launched at Site Gallery with a series of readings and performance actions by members of the Sheffield reading group including myself, Hester Reeve, Allie Carr and Linda Kemp, alongside a performance reading by Anna Barham.



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