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.

Project: Weaving Codes | Coding Weaves



From 24 - 29 October I am working at FoAM Kernow in Cornwall with Alex Mclean, Ellen Harlizius-Klück and Dave Griffiths as part of the AHRC Digital Transformations Amplification research project, 'Weaving Codes – Coding Weaves’. This project asks: “What are the historical and theoretical points at which the practice of weaving and computer programming connect? What insights can be gained if we bring these activities together, through live shared experience? How do digital technologies influence our ways of making, and what new digital technologies can we create to explore their social use in creative collaboration? The research residency included a public performance exploration of weaving and live coding (see documentation below) as well as discussions about a forthcoming special issue of Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture focusing on insights and findings from this project. My role in this project is as a critical witness/interlocutor; reflections from my observations on the project will form part of a research article for the special issue of Textile, elaborating ideas developing within a series of conference presentations around the title 'Live Coding | Weaving : Penelopean Mêtis and the Weaver-Coder's Kairos.


Conference Paper: Kairos Time: The Performativity of Timing and Timelines

I will be presenting my conference paper, 'Kairos Time: The Performativity of Timing and Timeliness … or; Between Biding One’s Time and Knowing When to Act', at the forthcoming first PARSE biennial research conference at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, running November 4–6, which takes as its point of departure the question of "TIME." Speakers include Bruno Latour, Simon Critchley, Simonetta Carbonaro, Coco Fusco, Jalal Toufic, The Otolith Group, Flat Time House and Vermeir & Hieremans. Please follow these links for information about the conference structure and the draft timetable, featuring links to the presenters of the Conference.



Exhibition/Project: Contemporary Code – Artistic Research


City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
30 October 2015 - 29 November 2015
An exhibition project by the University of Applied Arts Vienna in cooperation with the School of Creative Media/ City University of Hong Kong
Curated by Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch, Romana Schuler
  
In the 1960s, the term “visual research” was introduced into certain fields instead of the term “art”. The term “artistic research”, which has become increasingly relevant in recent decades, continues this development. Research characterizes an understanding that is gaining more and more validity in art while having an innovative impact. In the exhibition “CONTEMPORARY CODE – ARTISTIC RESEARCH”, artistic research is being internationally positioned as part of the new academic guiding model of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Five years ago, President Gerald Bast co-initiated the PEEK Research Program in Austria, with the aim of promoting an interdisciplinary approach in the arts and sciences. Today, PEEK is one of Austria’s key contributions to the international developments in the field of artistic and research driven activities.

Participating projects:
Artist Philosophers. Philosophy as Arts-Based Research
Artistic Technology Research
BIORNAMETICS – Architecture Defined By Natural Patterns
Breaking the Wall – Playful Interfaces for Music Audience Participation
Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line
DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA
E/M/D/L – European Mobile Dome Lab for Artistic Research
Eden's Edge
Empowerment in the Practice of Art and the Social Sciences 
Expansion and Development THIS BABY DOLL WILL BE A JUNKIE
GrAB – Growing As Building
Interacct
Liquid Things
n.formations – An Atlas of Experiments in Materialized Information
NO ISBN – the Privatization of Publication
Quantum Cinema – A Digital Vision
Robotic Woodcraft – Performative Producers in Architecture and Design
Stitching Worlds
Transpositions: Artistic Data Exploration
Visuality & Mathematics

Publication: Pretentious Writing



Pretentious Writings is interested in the crossing of meanings, how the modes/mediums of processing information and languages affects understanding. Pretentious Writings invited artists working with text or interested in thinking as a form of artistic medium, for sensing in their approaches how the issues of translation, conversion, and meaning formation are embedded into visual strategies. Pretentious Writings has gathered multiple diverse authorial contributions into a non-pretentious publication with a format that is part fanzine, part feel of a gathering of friends.

 André Alves (ed.), Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, Chris Reeves, Cynthia Gregory, Danielle van Zuijlen, Diego Vites, Eduardo Leitão, Emma Cocker, Francesco Ventrella, Maria Sottomayor, Natalie Calderón, Not-Wolf, Patrick Coyle, Ricardo Castro, Valter Ventura

Event: Manchester Contemporary




Bloc Projects 
Manchester Contemporary
24 - 27 September 2015

Bloc Projects will be presenting new work by four artists who have featured in our programme over the last 12 months - Helen de Main, Graeme Durant, Louisa Martin and Rebecca Ounstead - alongside editions and publications by Emma Cocker and Victoria Gray, Dale Holmes, Rebecca Lennon, Louisa Martin, David McLeavy and Rebecca Ounstead. The fair previews on Thursday 24 September 2015, find out about the public events programme, location and opening hours here. 



Event: Who will go to art school?

Who Will Go To Art School?
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015
24 September 2015, 6.30 - 8.30
New Art Exchange, Nottingham

 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015 will launch in Nottingham across artist-led spaces Backlit, One Thoresby Street and Primary, supported by an additional programme of events at Nottingham Contemporary, New Art Exchange and Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery. 


Discussion about the future of arts education and the proliferation of alternative art schools. Asking, who in the current economic climate has access to arts education and learning? Speakers: Emma Cocker (Reader in Fine Art, NTU), Anna Colin (Open School East), Paul Goodwin (Professor of Black Art & Design Studies, UAL), and Emily Pope (School of the Damned). Part of the public programme for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2015, selected by Hurvin Anderson, Jessie Flood-Paddock and Simon Starling, and hosted by the New Midland Group.

 Below is a version of my presentation:

Event: Counter Art Book Fair



Counter Art Book Fair
Saturday 24th October 2015, 12 – 6pm
Karst, Plymouth

Clare Thornton and I present our new publication from the project The Italic I at the Counter Art Book Fair, Karst, alongside additional publications both solo and collaborative.

Other exhibitors include: AM Bruno / Antler Press / Arnolfini / As Yet Untitled / Atlantic Press Camberwell College of Arts / Chloe Spicer / Chubby / Clare Rogers / Emma Cocker & Clare Thornton / Fennertown / G . F Smith / Guy Bigland / Hazard Press / HG Makes / Howling Owl Records / Impact Press / KARST Shop / Keiken Collective / Ladies of the Press* / LALALA POMPOM / Mark Leahy / Nathan Walker / OOMK / Pea Robinson & Rachael Jenkins / Pylon Press / Semple Press / STANDING FRAME / The B.L.N.T. Collective / The Chinchilla / The Shipping Press / Uniformbooks / Wotadot






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