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/research: Language-based Artistic Research (SIG)

Language-based Artistic Research 

@ Society of Artistic Research Conference 2023

Trondheim, Norway

Wednesday 19 April 2023

13:00

SIG slot #1 @Cinemateket

Kjøpmannsgata 48, 7011 Trondheim

 

In April 2023, we – Emma Cocker, Alexander Damianisch and Cordula Daus - will be in Trondheim, Norwary, attending the International Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR), 19-21 April 2023 – see https://sar2023.no/

During the conference, we will be introducing the activities of the SAR Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. This in-person session during the SAR conference will share recent activities, introducing the current ‘Practice Sharing’ (2023) alongside announcing future events. During the conference we will also announce the contributors for the second edition of ‘Practice Sharing’. See first edition of Practice Sharing here.

 

The Society for Artistic Research Special Interest Group (SAR SIG) in Language-based Artistic Research was founded and is co-organised by Emma Cocker (UK), Alexander Damianisch (AT), Cordula Daus (DE/AT), and Lena Séraphin (FI). This Special Interest Group was inaugurated in the context of the Research Pavilion, Venice, 2019, within the frame of Convocation, a three-day gathering of expanded language-based practices. Since 2019, this SAR SIG has – through a variety of different formats and forms – connected over 300 artistic researchers interested in language-based practices