Luka Kuplowsky

Toronto Release Show! May 28th! Come celebrate The Grass Grows, Antonych Grows Росте Антонич, і росте трава .to 🐛🦋🌿🪲

We will be presenting a full band performance of the record (and other songs) featuring Thom Gill, Joseph Shabason, Evan Cartwright, Josh Cole, Felicity Williams, & Michael Davidson. 

Opening the night is support from Evan J. Cartwright & Noriko Yamamoto. Evan and Noriko are both dear collaborators and friends, and a deep source of inspiration. They will each offer an entrance to the evening that is singular and sure to be memorable.

Following the performance, Holy Oak Family DJ will be spinning vinyl with video projections.

Strongly recommend grabbing advance tickets for the show (link in bio)

Venue info: Underground at 620 Spadina Ave - around the back, through the lot to the steel doors, down the stairs, past the mechanical room, through the swinging wood laminate door...

For accessibility needs, contact me directly to arrange an alternative entrance to the space.

Grateful to be a part of VOLUME 4 of the INSTITUT experiment. Every week, a different hypothesis.

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Friends in Newfoundland 💙 I'm playing a show May 21st with the brilliant at !

It'll be my first show in NFLD in just shy of ten years.

You can pick up advanced tickets at nicopaulo.com/shows

Beautiful poster by

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Josh Cole, Thom Gill & Evan Cartwright 💙
These pictures are from the initial sessions for the record in the Fall of 2022 outside studio. The majority of the record was tracked over the course of two days and here, we see the smiling faces of the band beaming immediately after we wrapped. Michael Davidson, Felicity Williams and Dan Pencer were brought in for a few brief overdub sessions following the initial session. Joseph added some of his own touches and we mixed it over the next year. I love what they all brought to the record. What luck to get to make music with such brilliant and beautiful people.

I hope the record is finding you well 🌿 if it moves you, pass it along to a friend.

Release show details imminent 🦋

Plant Life 🌿

A miniature Luka at his work desk - the size of a photograph, a small book, a pencil. A ritual dance for the poets? everything starts moving at once: book, art, body, words, textile (krayka). No distinction.

The video doubles as a who's who of Toronto DIY stickers & my current phd reading list.

Full video on YouTube 📖🐛

Choreography by Noriko Yamamoto
Artwork by Melissa Richards aka Mo

The Grass Grows, Antonych Grows is out everywhere digital/compact disc via 🦋

It's been very rewarding to help realize this installation by Mary Bunch & Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning alongside Christina Dovolis & Jorge De Oliveira. My main role was designing the sound world of both portals, including a participatory mossy-midi keyboard of wetland sounds from the Sarnia region.

The installation is showing this weekend at the Aga Khan for World Water Day. Closes end of day Sunday.

Particulate Matter x Midge Swarm is an interactive dual-channel projection responding to the environmental crisis in Sarnia’s Chemical Valley—home to Canada’s worst air quality. The project reflects on the harm caused by petrochemical industries, particularly to the Aamjiwnaang and Walpole Island First Nations. In Particulate Matter, viewers control a digital smog screen with a throttle controller, revealing a surreal industrial landscape, while triggering sirens, local voices, and media clips. Midge Swarm, in contrast, immerses viewers in a vibrant wetland. Spectators can clear the swarm of midges by waving their arms, and perform a wetland soundscape on a midi board. Installed in proximity, this installation asks audiences to dwell in sites of remedy and complicity in the spoils of capitalist extraction.

Showings:
2026 – Group Exhibition – Aga Khan Museum – Toronto, Canada
2026 – Group Exhibition – Available Light Film Festival – Whitehorse, Canada
2025 – Group Exhibition – Electronic Literature Conference – Toronto, Canada
2025 – Group Exhibition – University Art Association of Canada – Toronto, Canada
2025 – Group Exhibition – Connected Minds Conference – Toronto, Canada

It's here 🐛🌿
The Grass Grows, Antonych Grows Росте Антонич, і росте трава is released today on digital & compact disc via

To celebrate the album release there is a new video of a miniature Luka. Filmed on my writing desk.

I've said a lot in past posts and will say a lot more about this record in the future, but for today the music can carry much more than I could ever write.

Stream it wherever
Purchase it digitally
order a CD (if you're local send me a message!)
Read Antonych's poetry 📖

Love and thanks to all who contributed Josh Cole Evan Cartwright Dan Pencer, Melissa Richards (aka Mo), Adam Kuplowsky, Sviatoslav Momotko, Volodymyr Kuplowsky, .mwambu Evan Newman, Cathy Pitt, Mama, Tato💙💙💙

The record was funded in Part by The Shevchenko Foundation, Boris Horodynsky Music Fund (Thank you!)

New substack on Antonych ☀️ Some musings and excerpts on his history and poetics.

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I am a bug 📼 🐛

Directed and Edited by luka

Camera by Julia Kathrin Lehmann & .mwambu

Shot at York U Motion Media Studio

Thank you to Mary Bunch & Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning

Public Domain Footage from: Ukrainian Festival Choir Of Dauphin Ukrainian Wedding, Miss Spider, Apollo 12 Footage, Insect Zoo - courtesy of the Prelinger Archives

Streaming on YouTube 📺