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. She was a key-researcher within the project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line (2014 – 2017) for exploring the thinking-feeling-knowing between choreography, drawing and writing. 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; 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.

Collaboration: Tacturiency - Game of Resonance



Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton, Tacturiency - Game of Resonance, 2012.

Tacturiency - Game of Resonance (2012) is one of a series of works made in collaboration with Clare Thornton as part of our developing project, Tacturiency. The video was produced during Summer Lodge at Nottingham Trent University, July 2012, with the assistance of Christine Stevens. Supported by Nottingham Trent University and Spike Associates & Turning Point South West Curatorial & Travel Bursaries.