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.

Symposium: Another Athens



Space in the City / Space and the City
The Place is the Space / The Space is the Place
Text and the City
4th December / 10am – 5pm /
Forest Centre Plus / 38 Castle Terrace / Edinburgh / EH3 9JD

City as a phantom, a vanishing point, a translucent archipelago.
Another city, unlike any other.
A shadow of a collected thought, a tactile memory constructed in grainy aggregate.

This one-day interdisciplinary symposium invites speakers to investigate the city, its space(s) and how its people interact with it on a daily basis: the city as a score, the imaginary city, strategies of drift and assemblage. The range of speakers, from within and without the arts and literature, will reflect the rich polyphony of views which span experience and interpretation of the city.

The symposium, organised in conjunction with Forest Centre+ & Interview Room 11, is an annexe of the wider project  Another Athens, which is a collaborative multi-platform project that explores the experience of the inhabitants of a city informed by their personal attachment to a place in the context of its intellectual and cultural heritage. The project consists of a text-based collaborative art work that will be translated into both an online interactive structure, and a gallery-based exhibition with building projections, accompanied by an artist film screening, a symposium and an artistic exchange initiative between artists and writers in Edinburgh and Athens, Greece.

LIST OF PRESENTERS: Neil Grey / Yasmin Ali / Gerry Smith / Jane Hyslop / Patty Flint / Nick-e Melville / Emma Cocker / Amir Berbic / Sophia Lycouris / Katalin Hausel / Michael Gallagher / Roselyne Burger / Peter Burnett / Mirja Koponen

Event: The Italic I - Performance Reading


The Italic I

Emma Cocker + Clare Thornton

Project Space Plus, Lincoln School of Fine & Performing Arts

 Publication Launch Event + Performance Reading

Tuesday 11 November, 17.30 - 19.30, 18.00 Performance Reading
In conjunction with the exhibition The Italic I at project space plus, Cocker and Thornton have produced an artists’ publication, which they will also present in the form of a performance reading.
The publication is available to purchase - £8.00 inc P+P. For more information contact - emma.cocker@ntu.ac.uk. Images below: The Italic I, Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, 2014. Photographs: Tom Hemming.



Research event: SARN Parenthesis

In November I presented a performance presentation (in collaboration with Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil) as part of 'Parenthesis', an un-conference organised by SARN (Swiss Artistic Research Network), taking place at HEAD, Geneva University of Art and Design, 6-7 November 2014. In our presentation (see documentation below) we shared findings from our research project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line, by presenting a 'version' of the project's 'Method Lab' in the form of a hybrid lecture involving live performance, drawing and the spoken word.





Documentation of installation as part of SARN. Photographs: Emma Cocker.

Below are further details and the full programme for the SARN (Swiss Artistic Research Network) unconference.



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