Tracey Cockrell

Tracey Cockrell is a sculptor with an interdisciplinary practice, who frequently collaborates with other artists, writers, and musicians. Using sympathetic resonance as a metaphor and as a means of sound propagation, she makes sculptures, installations, visual scores, and performances that explore the origins of language, challenge the authority of language for making meaning, and engage viewers in reading our landscapes in new ways. Cockrell’s projects often begin with site-specific listening walks. She hikes to collect field recordings, study relationships between natural and manmade landscapes, and harvest plant materials. Cockrell is interested in synesthesia and the poetic potential of the decay of language through acts of translation. Eco-feminism, linguistic theory, and experimental music drive her creative research.