Poets House presents an afternoon workshop and concert
celebrating the works of poet and prosodist Robert Kocik
through a variety of disciplines—poetics, visual art,
performance, architecture, disability studies, design, medicine,
economics, and politics—to explore what Kocik calls the
“sore, over-sensitive, insecure, and supple sciences.” This
event is also the release of Supple Science: A Robert
Kocik Primer, recently published by ON Contemporary
Practice.
The workshop will practice the Prosodic Body as composition
of the medium of which we're made and in which we
interrelate—beginning with a general tuning, letting go of
physical, emotional and mental blockages to open broader
energetic and interoceptive connections, then working
intensively with the correspondences between speech
sounds (phonemes) and various bioprocesses, and finally
opening the field of choreoprosodia (the fusion of poetry
and movement.) The underlying premise of the workshop:
a heightened sense of prosody deepens creativity, health
and compassion.
At 6pm, The Commons Choir, co-directed by Faïn and
Kocik, with composer(s) Ben Barson and Gizelxanath
Rodriguez, perform an investigative musical called the
"Ubiquitous Dividend" —a mix of speech, movement,
reparative tones and tunes arguing that generosity and
evenly shared material prosperity are intrinsic to who
we are.
Schedule:
Workshop: 2:00–5:00pm
Performance: 6:00–8:00pm
Poets:
Brenda Iijima
Andrew Levy
Lee Ann Brown
Performers:
Workshop Participants
Massimiliano Balduzzi
Emily Skillings
David Thompson
Cecilia Vicuña
Athena Kokoronis (food artist)
Composers:
Robert Kocik
Ben Barson
Gizelxanath Rodriguez
Photo credit: courtesy of the artist
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