Robert Kocik, poet, essayist, design/builder, lives in Brooklyn, NY where he directs the Bureau of Material Behaviors. His architectural works involve the development of 'missing' functions, services. He has recently completed the Enfranchisement Ranch--a rural doctors' office in which the building itself is considered the first 'treatment'. He also recently proposed Evoked Epigenetic Architecture (The Stress Response Building) to a group of environmental activists at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. EEA causally links our stress with the environmental crisis. He is currently developing a building based on 'prosody' and poets' imagined relevance to our society. In the Catskill region of New York, for the past 12 years he has worked to establish a vernacular architecture amid the modular blight. Robert Kocik's essays comprise a nascent field known as the Sore, Oversensitive Sciences (SOS). With the choreographer Daria Faïn, he has initiated THE PROSODIC BODY—an exacting aesthetics or artscience based on prosody as the bringing forth of everything. His publications include: Overcoming Fitness (Autonomedia, 2001), and Rhrurbarb (Field Books, 2007).
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Robert Kocik