Ubiquitous Dividend (Supple Science at LMCC River to River Festival)

UBIQUITOUS DIVIDEND:   A DAY-LONG CELEBRATION OF ROBERT KOCIK'S SUPPLE SCIENCE PUBLISHED BY ON CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE At Poets House As Part of the River to River Festival 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282 JUNE 28TH, 2014 FREE 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