Emma Cocker is a writer, artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art. Operating under the title Not Yet There, her enquiry focuses on exploring models of (art) practice and subjectivity, which resist or refuse the pressure of a single or stable position by remaining willfully unresolved. As a practice-based enquiry, Not Yet There is shaped by an interdisciplinary, hybridized approach, operating restlessly along the threshold of writing/art. Whilst embracing the potential of the essayistic (as a tentative attempt or trial), Cocker’s practice also includes experimental, performative and collaborative approaches for producing texts about, parallel to and as art practice. Processes of condensation, extraction, fragmentation, listing, footnoting, cross-referencing and appropriation are adopted as critical methods for art-writing, alongside the cultivation of a serialized form of prose-poetry collectively entitled Condensations.

Sunday, 3 October 2010

Project: Pay attention to the footnotes (Kuopio)




Pay Attention to the Footnotes, Kuopio (2010)
Emma Cocker (with Open City)

Documented during the timeframe of ANTI festival, Kuopio, Finland
29th September – 3rd October

The documentation attempts to provide a tangential record of the festival, whilst testing a project conceived in relation to urban city space against the site-specificity of Kuopio.

No.1 documented whilst locating Holly Rumble’s One Minute Bird Watching
No.2 documented not far from Rosie Dennis’ Downtown Kuopio
No.3 documented on route to Kira O’ Reilly’s Untitled Bomb Shelter Action for Kuopio, Returning
No.4 documented 12 minutes into Regin Igloria’s The ANTI 10K Run Write Run!
No.5 documented in the vicinity of Caroline Bergvall’s Flag Up
No.6 documented at the site of Maija Hirvanen’s On Ice Anti
No.7 documented round the corner from Sarah van Lamsweerde’s Instant Fiction
No.8 documented 16 hours after Johanna Hällsten’s Everyday Opera