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: Journal of Artistic Research




The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an international, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal that disseminates artistic research from all disciplines. JAR invites the ever-increasing number of artistic researchers to develop what for the sciences and humanities are standard academic publication procedures. It serves as a meeting point of diverse practices and methodologies in a field that has become a worldwide movement with many local activities.

JAR18 includes the following contributors:

Usoa Fullaondo, What Can a Process Do? a Passage from Ritual to Rituality

Christine Hansen, 50 Billion Micrograms. In the Search of the Aftermath of an Event

Katrina Brown, Translucent Surface/Quiet Body, Redistributed

Alexander Nevill, Passages of Light: Analogue and Digital Moving Image Installation

Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil-Moebius and Simona Koch, Choreo-graphic Figures: Scoring Aesthetic Encounters

Keywords include: affect, animal, choreography, expanded cinema, flatbed picture plane, haptic visuality, how-ness, media archeology, media arts, memory, meteorite, moving image, photography, rituality, science fiction, site, wit(h)nessing.

Take a look at JAR18 and read the full editorial.