Robert Kocik

Robert Kocik works across multiple disciplines, shifting between the roles of builder, architect, poet, and artist. Along with choreographer Daria Fain, Kocik created the Prosodic Body, described as an area of research that "explores language as a vibratory medium that interrelates art, health, and social change." Together with Fain, Kocik also co-directs the Commons Choir, dedicated to enhancing community-based performing arts projects. He is also the founder of the Bureau of Material Behaviors, devoted to researching materials and design, and the author of several books of poetry, including Over Coming Fitness (2000) and Rhrhubarb (2007). In his design work, he attempts to provide the community with a "missing service" and to force others to think innovatively, often incorporating both poetry and prosody into his structures.