Hillbilly Hot Tub

2008. Performance/Installation. Steel, copper, and wood. Dimensions variable. The Hillbilly Hot Tub Party was a one night event that combined music, drink and good times. Robert Turriff fabricated a wood fired dumpster hot tub, organized bar service, built a stage, faciltitated an art auction... and booked fantastic entertainment.

“Robert built a hot tub out of a garbage dumpster. That's right. A team of welders and sculptors created a four-person working hot tub and decided to host a hillbilly hot tub party to christen it. If that wasn't enough, they also built a stage complete with chicken-wire fencing, and then set up my band, as well as the Smokin' 45s and the Audio/Visuals for a wild night of music, dancing and hot tubbing. Dumpsters are usually relegated to the alleyways, so it was interesting to watch people celebrate this particular dumpster.”

- Matt Masters, Calgary Herald

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“Turriff’s event Hillbilly Hot Tub brought together rowdy country music, chili cookoffs and variety acts centered on a finely crafted wood-fired and cedar-lined dumpster hot tub. Very spirited relational esthetics resulted, to say the least.”

- Caitlin Thompson, FastForward Weekly

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“Then there was the Hillbilly Hot Tub party. Words cannot describe this truly amazing show. An amusing hillbilly mural. A fenced-in stage. And ... once the band stopped playing, scantily clad art students engaging in ... uh ... lively hot-tub activities. Kudos to Rob Turriff for putting together this fun show!”

- Christina Colenutt, musicliveshere.ca