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: Site Reading Writing Quarterly

Site-Reading Writing Quarterly (edited by Jane Rendell) celebrates reading and writing as situated practices, releasing a special pair of seasonal reviews four times a year. For Issue 7, I “read” Ben Spatz’s Making A Laboratory: Dynamic Configurations with Transversal Video, (Punctum Books, 2020) and Ben Spatz read Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil (eds.) Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line, (de Gruyter, 2017).

The two readings can be encountered here