Lippok, Robert

Robert Lippok © Sylvia Steinhäuser

Robert Lippok, born in 1966 in Berlin, works as a musician, stage designer and visual artist in Berlin. With his brother Ronald he founded the experimental music project Ornament und Verbrechen in 1984. In the 1990s they played with Stefan Schneider as to rococo rot. Since 2001, Lippok has been releasing solo projects on the renowned label raster-noton. He also repeatedly creates works dedicated to the connection between spatial sound and architecture. As a composer, Lippok has collaborated with the artists Doug Aitken, Olaf Nicolai, and Julian Charrière, architect Arno Brandlhuber, and choreographer Constanza Macras, among others, for several dance theater productions. Lippok teaches at NYU Berlin, is a member of the Institut für Raumexperimente e.V. founded by Olafur Eliasson, and is a curator at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest.

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WELTKLANG – Night of Poetry

READING AND PERFORMANCE – Weltklang Night of Poetry is the poesiefestival berlin’s polyphonic opening event. Poets from all over the world will read, sing, and perform in seven languages – demonstrating the richness of contemporary poetry in all its approaches and styles.

Antrobus, Raymond • Fernández Mallo, Agustín • Grünzweig, Dorothea • Kebede, Mihret • Lippok, Robert • Yideum, Kim • Kirsten, Wulf • Kruk, Halyna • Šteger, Aleš • Tori, Jure • Wong Kcomt, Julia