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Emma Cocker is a writer based in Sheffield and a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Her practice explores ideas around irresolution, failure and anti-climax; aimless wandering and spatial practices; restlessness and indecision; seriality and repetition; camouflage and disappearance; boredom and absurdity. Emma Cocker is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, and co-editor of the publications Transmission: Speaking and Listening Volumes 3 -5
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Wandering describes a form of ‘drift’ or purposeless action, distinguishable from the habitual types of ‘motivated’ walking typically encouraged within the public realm. It advocates the value of deviating from normative patterns Read on…
Emma Cocker discusses the practice of wandering, and considers the critical resonances of such an artform.
Knowing what something is not is not the same as knowing what something is. It is possible to display certainty in the elimination and refutation of one classificatory order, yet remain uncertain about the validity of claiming other categorical Read on…
Site Gallery, Sheffield
3 May - 14 June 2008
At times, the line between the critical and the cathartic gesture can become blurred. There is sometimes little to distinguish the self-consciously resistant or creative action from a ‘coping mechanism’ or some other form of Read on…
Artists' Book, Brussells
1 January 2008
Sometimes a foil is needed through which to conjure reflection. The same foil might yet be used as a ruse to misdirect or lead astray. At times a scene is set, only to test another's script: a frame drawn in order to expel the gaze beyond. Read on…
Leicester City Art Gallery
3 March 2007 to 4 April 2007
Forming part of the exhibition, 'Conflict', at the 20 -21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe, Richard Bartle's large-scale work Pow Wow emerges in the threshold space between fact and fantasy: it is located somewhere between the poles of Read on…
20 -21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
2 February 2007 to 6 June 2007
At a surface level only a fine line differentiates the desire to escape from a given situation from the more existential yearning to disappear altogether; for both types of willed departure are marked by the longing to slip the net of one's Read on…
S1 Artspace, Sheffield
1 January 2007 to 2 February 2007
The image conjured by slide projected travelogues relayed to others in the comfort of a domestic space or home is now synonymous with the cliché and banality of middle class travel and tourism; where the photographic residue of holiday Read on…
Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
11 November 2006 to 12 December 2006
In the realm of scientific enquiry the experiment is the cornerstone of empirical knowledge; it epitomises the methodical pursuit of ‘truth’ and certainty in a slippery, unstable world. Less a site of resolution and rationality, the Read on…
Site Gallery, Sheffield
15 November – 14 December
Working against the teleological grain of Western knowledge, irresolution is the wicked genie of ambiguity and ambivalence, preferring a turbulent state of disorder to the illusionary calm of logical or rational cognition. Irresolution is a Read on…
Site Gallery, Sheffield
11 November 2006 to 11 November 2006
In ‘Eternal Return’, an exhibition by On Kawara at Ikon Gallery, a series of his Date Paintings spill out from the centre of the gallery in a large spiral, beginning with ‘JANUARY 30, 1966’ and ending with dual paintings from Read on…
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
7 July 2006 to 9 September 2006
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