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: Revolve:R - Edition II


Emma Cocker, Site/Sight Lines (Performance Proposition) No. 3.

 Revolve: Meditate, Rotate, Muse, Twist, Turn Over In Mind. I am currently working on a contribution to the second edition of Revolve:R.  

Revolve: R is a collaborative project in visual correspondence, curated by Sam Treadaway and Ricarda Vidal in collaboration with a number of international artists,  based throughout Europe and the USA , which culminates in the publication of a handmade limited edition bookwork. The project explores the possibilities of an exchange of ideas via a visual and tactile, rather than virtual, form of communication. As site and source of collaborative experimentation for diverse artistic practices, the Revolve:R project becomes a vehicle for a new collective language, made physical in the shape of the Revolve:R bookwork. The following artists are contributing to Revolve:R Edition II: Alastair Whitton, Alice Hendy, Anna Cady, Anna Mace, Antun Maračić, Berndt Reichert, Clare Thornton, Diana Ali, Domingo Martínez, Emily Speed, Emma Cocker, Haydon Kays, James Rigler, John Matthias, Julie McCalden, Kate Street, Linnea Vedder, Matt Rowe, Oscar Bandtlow, Patrick Galway, Ricarda Vidal, Sam Treadaway, Sharon Kivland, Solveig Settemsdal, Stephanie Douet, Steven Fowler, Todd DiCiurcio, Verena Hägler.