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.

Event: Lis Rhodes: Dissident Lines A-Z walkthrough


Nottingham Contemporary
Wednesday 28 August, 6.00pm

I will be providing a ‘walkthrough’ for the current exhibition by Lis Rhodes at Nottingham Contemporary, using her work Light Reading (1978) as a point of departure for reflecting on wider cultural and artistic contexts, conceived as different prisms through which to encounter Rhodes’ practice. The exhibition, Dissident Lines, is Rhodes’ first-ever survey,  spanning almost 50 years of work. Lis Rhodes has a multifaceted practice: she is important not only as an artist, but also as a pioneering film programmer, campaigner for women's rights and an influential educator. Her practice crosses into installation, sound art, performance and writing. She was a foundational member of Circles, a feminist film and video distribution network in the UK, and one of the early members of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op. She also taught at the Slade from 1978, influencing many generations of artists.
  

Images above, Lis Rhodes, Light Reading (1978) 


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