tiny bill cody
tiny bill cody is the performance alter ego of Tor Lukasik-Foss, a Canadian artist whose creative pr
10/12/2023
SUNDAY 2pm show..just a handful of tickets remaining! Such a great night last night.! Tix in bio if you're feeling impulsive! Huzzah
09/12/2023
New Wave Your Behaviour has SOLD OUT tonight! Still some tix for Sunday, also if u absolutely need to be there tonight, mssg me for standing room details..tix in bio!
06/12/2023
New Wave Your Behaviour gear set against the sobering truth of an industrial mulespinner brick wall. I worry the audience won't be able to handle it.....tix in my bio if ur brave enough....
26/11/2023
Open studio today until 4pm. Come look at the unusual shapes.
25/11/2023
All ready for Cotton Factory Open House. Drop by tonight until 10, or Sunday 11 to 4!! Boiler building near the smokestack!
22/11/2023
09/11/2023
Our public art project "Belongings" was given an award of excellence tonight at the Hamilton Urban Design Awards. TH&B also got some recognition for the public art components at Pier 8. Huzzah!
28/10/2023
Sound check three points of view. Show starts 830pm!
28/10/2023
Sound check tinight with carolyn mark...mssg me if u need directions!! Already looks like spooky fun
16/10/2023
Knowing how to cook and knowing how to bake are diametrically opposed systems. Please consider the cake I cooked yesterday and discuss
04/10/2023
Amazing minimarch and demonstration led by sisters in spirit in downtown Hamilton....
10/09/2023
TH&B is the name of the art collective that includes myself, Ivan Jurakic, Dave Hind, and Simon Frank. In 2022, we fabricated a large cast iron pan (with the help of Lake Foundry in Grimsby ON) in the shape of a double swallow-tail crest, similar to the one used in the logo for the now defunct Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo railway. We’ve been interested in this shape as a symbol of connection—connection between neighbouring cities, connection between artists, connection between people—so the notion of the crest becoming a frying pan capable of gathering and feeding many people seemed intuitively right.
As part of this year’s Supercrawl, Hamilton’s annual street party, the collective fabricated a swallow-tail barbeque for the pan, as well as a swallowtail table. We then cooked and gave away approximately 700 pancakes be served with a jam, jelly, and sauce, all produced from fruit (serviceberry, mulberry, apple) we collected this past summer from unowned trees within the city’s boundary.
I’m still reeling from this experience, still processing how it has affected my notions of how art gets put into the public sphere, the service it provides, its obligations to the region in which it resides, the kinds of conversations that occur when food is a social transaction, not a commercial one, etc. I’m also excited for the future community events at which the pan can play a role.
Big thanks to Kristine Germann, Tim Potocic and the Supercrawl team for supporting this project, thanks to Ken Lefebour and Jackie Wakabayashi from Nellie James, who consulted with us on the food production, thanks to Irene J, Kira G, and members of our family who solved so many problems on the back end. Thanks to every one who came by to eat and to visit and listen to Ivan’s story. Huzzah!
03/09/2023
Hamilton Beach on three different days last week
10/08/2023
Beach bags are the loneliest bags.
26/07/2023
Todays theme: New Wave Hieroglyphics. Also, NO SHOW TODAY. Next up Thursday 7:05pm...tickets still available!!!
25/07/2023
Walk, run, dance, or respond icily to tonight's 7:05 performance of NEW WAVE YOUR BEHAVIOUR, it's your choice. Tix at Hamilton Fringe!
24/07/2023
The sacred geometry of new wave.....New wave Your Behaviour tonight at 8pm! Get your tix at Hamilton Fringe!
23/07/2023
The eyes of New Wave are watching you....New wave Your Behaviour at the Staircase tonight 7:40 pm, advance tix at Hamilton Fringe!
10/06/2023
Image: 'For Thirteen: Chimney Swift', Stephanie Vegh
as part of ‘The Messenger’,
Carnegie Gallery, Dundas
on now until June 29
Stephanie Vegh’s watercolours on paper, currently on view at the Carnegie Gallery are perfectly, quietly staggering. Less about the aesthetic aspects of regional bird species than it is about the fresh impact an impending Highway 413 will have on their habitat, Vegh simply lets colour drain from each of her studies to run in beads down the length of an otherwise empty page. The highway only exists in the titles of the works and within the didactic, never in the picture. A smart decision, as anything other elements would disrupt the muscle of the metaphor here. Vegh’s birds are placed in a void, a piece of paused time, a calm infected by an inevitability; they express a fatigue that must underly the decades-old efforts a part of our species takes to preserve even a modicum of land for interests and lives other ours. And yet, still, they are beautiful, a beauty that allows you to hold sadness, sit in complexity, be haunted for slightly longer than you are prepared
09/06/2023
Hamilton 7 selfie....how's that for self promotion. Come on by Sunday if you can!!
11/05/2023
Install is mostly finished for 'Belongings' at Churchill Park, the public art project I've collaborated on with Gary Barwin and Simon Frank, kind of a quiet poem written in luggage. Top to finish a great learning process for me.
01/05/2023
Rock Walk
28/04/2023
Ready for the final reading, finishing up some icons, thinking about how fast slow time is...
23/04/2023
From yesterday's amazing sessions in the NOT PSYCHIC booth
19/04/2023
Things on the beach
14/04/2023
A drawing, its inspiration, a stencil, aNotPsychic session, everything synergized nicely...
11/04/2023
Yesterday's drawing experiment...
01/04/2023
Flight from Anchorage to Homer, I have no words
09/02/2023
Tonight...casual dropin cover song sing em if u know em night
08/02/2023
Tomorrow!
05/02/2023
Setting up in a coffee shop to get ready for tonight's Hamilton 7storytelling and I find the 8 posters i promised to put up for the show but haven't yet. Now I'm going to look out at the audience tonight and see possibly 8 chairs empty -- the 8 people who were in my power to encourage along tonight who are home doing the 2nd best thing with their time. The guilt won't be insurmountable, but it may still flicker behind my eyes tonight. Maybe if I offered a commemorative poster and a hug to anyone who reads this post and joins us tonight. Imagine the sparkle in my eyes if I gave away all 8!
18/11/2022
That's right!!
16/11/2022
Philamadelphia!
15/11/2022
20/11/2021
BIOGRAPHY: tiny bill cody
tiny bill cody is the performance alter ego of Tor Lukasik-Foss, a Canadian artist whose creative practice has integrated music, performance, storytelling and visual art. He has therefore existed in a variety of places, with a spectrum of collaborators, and in varied configurations for over two decades, in solo shows, fringe musicals, country music reviews and performance art operas. Throughout it all, he has written songs. They begin usually with voice and a percussive guitar; they tell about the human experience as it succumbs to an inevitable procession of minor sins, private ambitions, subtle fears, fragile humiliations, and tiny levities. They graft themselves onto the roots of sturdier rhythms and traditions in order to be more widely understood. They don’t know where they belong.
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