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: Method Lab opening and "Live Exploration"


Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line
Method Lab I
Nikolaus Gansterer / Mariella Greil / Emma Cocker
Opening Event
5 August 2014: 15.00 – 19.00 (with A Live Exploration from 16.00)
Probebühne des Schauspielhauses, Rechte Wienzeile 73 (backyard), 1050 Vienna, Austria



Documentation of Live Exploration.  Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line - Method Lab I.
Photograph: Simona Koch

 Opening Event for the residency laboratory Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line - Method Lab I. During the ImpulsTanz festival Gansterer, Greil and Cocker have been engaged in the residency “Method Lab I ”, supported by the input of Alex Arteaga and Lilia Mestre. On 5 August 2014, the Method Lab opened to the public, with the key researchers available to informally discuss the project, Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line. Processes and approaches developed during the Method Lab were presented through a Live Exploration in order to make visible various intensities of the research process through the re-visitation of key moments of shared enquiry. The Live Exploration was followed by discussion around the issues and questions emerging within the Method Lab. More documentation of the opening event can be found here.