The appearance of the more - Ecologies of Relation

Cocker, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2985-7839, 2025. The appearance of the more - Ecologies of Relation. In: 16th International Conference on Artistic Research - Resonance, University of Porto, 07-09 May 2025.

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Abstract

Emma Cocker and Nicole Wendel activated a live Ecology of Relation for sharing their collaborative artistic research enquiry, The Appearance of the More. The term Ecology of Relation describes a form of experimental and improvisatory practising together – or of being-in-touch – for bringing into relation the unfolding, embodied processes of drawing and languaging as resonating fields of perception and cooperation. Within an Ecology of Relation different practices of drawing and voicing become activated through heightened attention to the attunement, interrelation and resonance of different bodies, forces and agencies – both human and more-than-human – within the contingent process of shared exploration. Each Ecology of Relation creates conditions for the potential of what Hartmut Rosa (2019) refers to as horizontal, diagonal and vertical axes of resonance. Within an Ecology of Relation, each axis is underscored by the qualities of intimacy, risk, trust, vulnerability, listening, receptivity and porosity: the horizontal axis of resonance relates to the in-touch-ness between human subjects, the reciprocity, responsiveness and mutuality of collaboration; the diagonal axis involves correspondence with materials, attending to the ‘singing of things’, whilst the vertical axis opens towards the potential of an unknown, the ‘appearance of the more’. This enquiry attempts to attend to and make tangible the appearance and immanent materiality of an emergent drawing in touch with a moving body, whilst searching for a mode of linguistic articulation capable of operating in fidelity to that experience, to the emerging phenomenon (of drawing). The Ecologies of Relation make tangible certain constitutive conditions for resonance, in turn, of a more ethical, attentive and embodied relation between self/world: the importance of taking time; of the cultivation of non-utilitarian, non-grasping forms of ‘creative attention’ (Simone Weil) & ‘radical tenderness’ (Şeyda Kurt).

Item Type:	Conference contribution
Creators:	Cocker, E.
Contributors:	Name Role NTU ID ORCID Wendel, N. Artist UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Date:	8 May 2025
Identifiers:	Number Type 2504081 Other
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham School of Art & Design
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	26 Sep 2025 13:28
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2025 13:28
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/54463

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