Presented by: Non/Being, Cyberia, Also Cool, Interzone, ЗМЕИ, Coolground, and N10AS Radio
Taking on the form of a one-day festival, Vault: Unlocked is a multi-faceted community gathering to celebrate and strengthen the support networks we build on and off the dancefloor.
Featuring a day-rave marketplace of local artists, two panel discussions from local creatives and community organizers, and an all night mega-rave of live and DJ sets, we invite you to join us during these 24-hours of ceremony and collaboration.
Vault: Unlocked will also be the official launch of new Montreal collective NON/BEING, and the release of their first album project: ‘Certified Reality’.
6 - 8pm: Community Panel Discussions [Presented by Non/Being x Also Cool]
Panel One: What is community?: With Speakers:
Malaika Astorga:
Malaika is a Mexican-Canadian visual artist, writer and queer-femme. Her work prioritizes creating and promoting Mexican representation in Canadian media, after growing up with virtually none. Over the past five years, she’s worked with musicians, record labels, art collectives and small businesses in a variety of visual and written mediums. Her experience as a writer and artist has most recently come together under the project Also Cool Mag, a music and arts magazine focused on community.
@_Flleur @Alsocoolmag
Diego Cabezas Watson:
Diego Cabezas-Watson is a DJ and event organizer from Montreal. Their focus is to grow and strengthen the local community through education, gathering, creative sharing, and play. They have been organizing events since 2017 with their collective Inner Circle, and hosting local and international performers in DIY venues around the city. Diego also runs an online podcast series called Fashion Invention.
Willow Cioppa is an interdisciplinary artist, playwright, and harm reduction worker based in Montreal. They work with organizations across the city to make dance floors safer. They believe in celebrating often and with intention, and you can most frequently find them twerking on a dance floor near you.
@Willotioti
Sophia Sahrane:
Sophia Sahrane is a BIPOC activist, archivist, and afrofeminist from Montreal focusing her efforts against anti-black racism, misogynoir, and the criminalization and policing of racialized bodies. Involved in community organizations and initiatives like the Librairie Racines and Hoodstock; she also focuses her activism, community organizing, and research, on the lack of representation and erasure of Black folk in education, archives, and throughout history, and explores how that erasure continues to perpetuate white dominance and the subordination of Black, Indigenous, and racialized peoples.
@Thirdeyesoph
Jacqueline Beaumont:
Tiotia ke located, jacqueline Beaumont is an interdisciplinary bioartist, witch and transhumanist. Her work investigates queer ecology, transgendered fertility, and genetics. She scrolls her body across a bed of broken glass, searching for the final gasp, under the weight of a dying world. With a background in synthetic biology and material practices, she utilizes the wonder, resilience and hopelessness of the biological world, to illustrate a speculative view of life within the Anthropocene and possible futurities beyond its
@Jac_Beaumont
Panel Two: Community Spaces and funding: With Speakers:
Odile Myrtil:
Montréal-based Odile Myrtil is a vocalist, lyricist, DJ and multimedia artist whose work encompasses experimental club music. She is a resident DJ at the Moonshine parties and has played in the city’s most reputable festivals like Igloofest, Piknic Electronik, and Osheaga. As a vocalist and lyricist, Myrtil has worked with local artists such as Ouri, Lydia Kepinski and Cri. Internationally, she has written songs for Fade To Mind's Rizzla & Hyperdub's Dj Taye. The different areas Myrtil works in reflect her desire for an artistic identity that is fluid, complex and expansive.
Danji Buck-Moore is a musician, organizer, and researcher based in Montreal since 2008. He is a founding member of the DIY collective and performance space La Plante, still active today, and the rave collective Lagom / Enough Is More Than A Feast. An active organizer in the underground scene since 2011, he began graduate studies at McGill’s department of Communications Studies this year. His research is around DIY & illegal spaces and scenes, city licensing and regulatory politics, and the potential for grassroots political ecologies to emerge in the cultural underground.
@anabasine
Milo Reinhardt:
Milo Reinhardt is a Montreal based multidisciplinary artist with a BFA in Painting and Drawing, and graduate certificate in Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice from Concordia University. His work combines experimental sound composition, speculative design, and immersive installation while exploring issues of identity, death, and the digital. He produces as /||\||\ and is co-founder of the collective susy.technology. /||\||\ draws inspiration from the infinite mutability of the digital environment and aims to position itself as a record of the tenuous transition that is our digitization.
Frankie Teardrop is an event planner and DJ based out of Vancouver. In 2014, Frankie co-founded Slut Island Festival alongside Sultana Bambino. Within the same year they founded LIP, a queer events series, in which both projects are based out of Tio'tia:ke. They have been DJing consistently throughout their community work and have played at events such as Igloofest, Piknic Electronik, Technofeminism (NYC), Ostbhanhof (LA), VOID, Unikorn Parties, etc. Frankie has continued to run LIP and DJ in Vancouver while they primarily focus on a new medium of work in film.
Liar//Lier is a project that seeks no compromise in its efforts to open up a zone with no idols or pappa and mummy, but instead strives to allow the excess in and through sound-as-sound to dissolve the bounds of the ego, and to explore through performance this unbounded space between corporeal and sonic bodies.
Exe.Jocko is a collaboration of hardware and software, flesh and metal. Pushing the limits of improvised electronics, utilizing the ritual of blood letting and body manipulation, Exe.Jocko strives to look inwardly to find comfort in an increasingly cold world and create outwardly a performance that ignites the audience with rhythm and awe. From coded hazed nightmare sounds to techno beats, the journey through their live performances lead the audience into an industrial abyss.
Day and night, Neo Edo storms the city with converging sounds of fast paced distorted rhythms, heady atonal soundscapes, bass-driven beats and evolving synthesized textures. The self-taught, Montreal based artist Jimmy Bertrand creates through any means digital. But it is through the mysteriously iconic persona they’ve crafted, or the soon to be unravelling universe that remains in constant creation, the young producer mixes cyberpunk aesthetics with sounds of over-processed club acapellas, Detroit Electro, left-field Techno, dislocated IDM patterns, Breakcore, Footwork and so much more…
she.PHASE is a collaboration between Emma Forgues and Sam Bourgault. Their heterogeneous experience, from art to science, leads to a diversified approach in their artistic practice. Their common interests involve the body, cybernetics, interactivity, both in the real and in the virtual world. They explore the innovations of technology and its social impact through video, sound, coding, audiovisual and performance projects. As she.PHASE, they performed live visual sets at multiple local events such as LIP (Sala Rossa, 2018; Sotterena, 2018; Alexandra Platz, 2018), Vault (2018 - 2019), Algorave (Sotterena, 2018), Signes Vitaux (Casa del Popolo, 2019), Proposition & Speculations (Livart, 2019), Suoni Per Il Popolo (Vitrola, 2019), Slut Island Festival (Phi Centre; 2019) and more.
Space Graft is a notorious visual performance artist who deploys uncompromised site specific installations in the nooks of the underground scene. His work focuses on a ground up DIY tech-nonconformist approach, relying on his own software and hardware tools to perform entirely improvised marathon sets. Active since 2011, he helped shape the renowned Blackbox series with DJ Claire and now collaborates with LAGOM/EIMTAF, and SCUFF.
Collectives Co-Presenting the Vault: Unlocked Festival:
Also Cool:
Also Cool is a community-centered arts and music collective based around event organization and journalistic publishing. Comprised of femme, queer, and POCs, who strive to represent their own identities instead of being tokenized, Also Cool emphasizes payed labour and clickbait interupting media, as a means to offer content that truly connects with, and supports the communaties they are surrounded by.
@Alsocoolmag
Interzone:
Interzone is a Paris-born, Montréal-based DIY arts and events collective brought together by an essential faith in the revolutionary power of group experimentation and improvisation. Grounded within the strength of community solidarity, Interzone works towards the building and solidifying of new connections between art and people through raves, concerts and publications — creating a true conspiracy of bodies, open to all bodies.
@Interzone2017
CYBERIA:
Holding it down as an MTL rave pillar and community space from 2018-2019, there are few ravers in Montreal who can't remember a special moment they had at this afterhours. Beginning as a project with a permanent location,Cyberia as a weekly operation has since shifted into a nomadic project that explores and pushes the boundaries of conventional event organization. In addition to searching for new and innovative locations and venues for group performance and event planning, CYBERIA also continues to share its vision through a radio format on N10AS.
Snakes(ЗМЕИ):
Snakes started as an event series for friends to gather and share with one another the best music from the electronic underground they could find. It all began in Kyiv, where Jana Woodstock and Masha Nepop had an idea of a mystical event with slower, deeper, and darker, music for everyone to dance, chill, and have the ability to communicate through/during. Initially a part of a larger event series called Osnova Kyiv, Snakes broke off into its own independent rave as sentiments and aesthetics came together over time. With co-founder Masha Nepop moving to Ottawa at the beginning of the year, Snakes has since joined forces with MTL musicians and community organizers Connor McComb and Ariana Molly- birthing a new homefront for Snakes in Montreal.
@Znakez808
Coolground:
Coolground is an event series and mix platform started by Dileta in 2019 and now co-run with Honeydrip. Carving a space in Montreal for unusual rhythmic body music, sound design on the dancefloor, and a kv sound which inhabits the grey area between Techno, Bass, and Club Music; Cool ground showcases inventive local DJs and live acts, while engaging in community mutual actualisation/mutation by bringing in boundary-pushing artists from other corners of the world to Montreal.
@Coolgroundkv
N10.AS Radio:
N10.as was conceived in late 2015 to fulfill the need in Montreal for a casual community platform for people to share their creative output. Inspired by other web radio stations like The Lot Radio and Berlin Community Radio (RIP), and with the genius web design of Conan Lai, the N10.as we know today was born in February of 2016.
N10.as is entirely volunteer run and is funded primarily by donations. Being untethered from large corporate sponsorships allows the station to be fluid and adapt to the needs of the volunteers and hosts. The team are hands off in regards to sonic and visual aesthetic, instead allowing hosts and listeners to mold the collective identity. N10.as is freeform and constantly evolving as different community members come in and out of the station’s orbit.
Focusing on liminal processes of art, perception, and community organization- Non/Being is a research institution concerned with our states of being. If reality is that one’s truest state cannot possibly be categorized, and our current medium for self perception stems from a complex codification of normatives, then queerness/transeness, as a concept/movement/mode of being, situates ‘human existence’ as a (trans)ient experience, and eclipses the oppositional binaries that have been woven into the very fabric of our current realities. Through disembodiment and our constant movement across different bodily forms, we look at the ways bodies (bodies of work, art, theory, process, healing, flesh, organization, ect) interact with themselves and one another within their transcendent contexts.
The compilation will be released alongside the festival on February 29th, in which 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the non-profit organization Rainbow Railroad.
Intended to ground Non/Being's future work in collective foundations of collaboration and social consciousness, this compilation will bring together varying musical artists across the world with the intent of raising money for the organization Rainbow Railroad. Expanding the scope and connections made at the synthesis of Non/Being, these sentiments will situate our initial coming together within the purpose of contributing to the increased well being of LGBTQIA2S+ individuals across the globe.
Non/Being acknowledges that this festival takes place on stolen land, on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. The Kanien’kehá:ka are the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The island called “Montreal” is known as Tio’tia:ke in the language of the Kanien’kehá:ka, and it has historically been a meeting place for other Indigenous nations, including the Algonquin peoples.
*This space is wheelchair accessible with two small steps leading to the front door, but a small concrete curve to go up.
...For those of you interested in our over night slime time programming, please refer to the Vault database website...
This event will be ticketed in phases so please buy your tickets early while we still have reduced stock! Contact any of the organizers if funds is a reason for you not to attend.
This is a crowd sourced event and is costing us upwards of 13, 000$ In order to reduce financial risk and monetary stress, we turn to members of the community who have funds to share in seeing this vision realized. If you have any extra money to donate please visit our Gofundme below:
