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.

Research: Choreo-graphic Figures (at PAF)



13 September – 19 September 2014, Choreo-graphic Figures (at PAF) 

In September I was working again with Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil to reflect on the processes and expanded practices developed as part of Method Lab I (July - August, Vienna) within the research project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line. We were working together for an intensive week at PAF Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme. On 17th September we presented a work-in-progress performance-lecture to fellow residents at PAF. More images here.