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: InDialogue


I will be presenting as part of the forthcoming InDialogue symposium (19 – 21 November). InDialogue is a collaborative research project that interrogates how artists and researchers use dialogue in practice. This 4th iteration of InDialogue brings together UK and International based artists and researchers to push the boundaries in thinking about the use of DIALOGUE and SITE within PRACTICE, across the disciplines of art and design. InDialogue takes place in 3 cities over 3 days:

When & Where
DAY 1: Derby, Tuesday 19th November 9.30 - 21.00 Derby Theatre & Deda
DAY 2: Lincoln, Wednesday 20th November 11.00 - 18.00 Mansions of the Future 
DAY 3: Nottingham, Thursday 21st November 11.00 - 21.00 Nottingham Contemporary