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.

Live Event: Ecology of Relation (The Appearance of the More)


E.Cocker and N.Wendel, The Appearance of the More, #3, 23.05.2024 Ecology of Relation

On 21 September 2024, Emma Cocker and Nicole Wendel presented a hybrid practice of an Ecology of Relation for sharing their current collaborative artistic research enquiry, The Appearance of the More with a live audience in Berlin. Wendel engaged in drawing on site at her Studio in Berlin, whilst Cocker connected online from Sheffield. Ecology of Relation is a term used for describing a form of live practising together – or of being-in-touch. This enquiry explores ways for bringing-into-relation the unfolding and embodied processes of drawing and languaging as sensitive fields of perception and cooperation. The live Ecology in Relation was presented in dialogue with an exhibition of graphic works by Margrét H. Blöndal, Kerstin Hille, Nanne Meyer, Katja Pudor, Haleh Redjaian, Saskia Wendland (curated by Nicole Wendel).

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