Emma Cocker

Emma Cocker is a writer-artist & Reader in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Operating under the title Not Yet There, her research addresses the endeavour of creative labour, focusing on models of (art) practice and subjectivity that resist the pressure of a single, stable position by remaining willfully unresolved. Cocker’s recent writing has been published in Failure, (2010); Stillness in a Mobile World, (2011); Drawing a Hypothesis: Figures of Thought, (2011); Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, (2012); On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, (2013), Reading/Feeling (2013) and Cartographies of Exile, (2015). Often working in collaboration with others artists, she has presented work at Flat Time House, London; M_HKA, Antwerp; NGBK, Berlin; Stadtpark Forum, Graz, and the AGORA Athens Biennale (2014). She is a key researcher on the PEEK funded research project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line (2014 – 2017) in collaboration with Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil.