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.

Publication: The Other Room Anthology



The Other Room Anthology 2014/15 features work from Joanne Ashcroft; Emma Bennett; Leanne Bridgewater; Emma Cocker; James Davies; Matt Fallaize; Clive Fencott; Allen Fisher; Ulli Freer; Alison Gibb; Tom Jenks; Agnes Lehoczky; Karen Mac Cormack; Lila Matsumoto; E.J. McAdams; Steve McCaffery; Claire Potter; Hannah Silva; Hazel Smith; Jon Thompson; Scott Thurston; Gareth Twose; Nathan Walker; MJ Weller. Click HERE to buy a copy from within the UK, and HERE to buy a copy from elsewhere. 

 The Other Room is a reading series based in Manchester presenting experimental writers
. The Anthology brings together contributions from those writers who have presented at The Other Room in the last year. See http://otherroom.org/ for more details.