Hold On | FESTIVAL PARTY

Image courtesy of festival designers, Emi Takahashi and Michelle Kuan
Image courtesy of festival designers, Emi Takahashi and Michelle Kuan

+ Curated by Miriam Arbus and InterAccess

Saturday, July 13, 2024 | 10 PM – 3 AM
Standard Time (165 Geary Ave 2nd Floor Unit A, Toronto, ON M6H 2B8)
Tickets: $25 (NOTAFLOF, sliding scale)

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Hold On … A party for all of us, by us. A voyage through space and time. Break the surface, enter the void and come out the other side with new hands to hold.
Let it out and dance with your community to celebrate another year of Vector Festival.

Music

Cavo
Automaticamore
Ciel (live)
Saba

Visual Installation

Urban Visuals
Tendril

Performance

Anne-F Jacques

Vector Festival 2024: too fragile to hold, curated by Miriam Arbus, explores the combined experiences of migrating species, weather patterns, geopolitical scrambling, and algorithmic data processing, reminding us that all is cosmic, symbiotic, interconnected, intersected, and intertwined. As we grasp at urgent inequities and the world’s paradoxical trajectory amidst rigid systems, a precautious, hopeful path is driven by new technology at a relentless pace where digital products promise solutions.

Through a hybrid online and in-person program of exhibitions, performances, gatherings, and workshops, this 10-day festival invites artists and audiences to come together into embodied experiences where mutualisms might flourish and simultaneity resounds, as we ask: will we follow the birds when the weather changes?

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Miriam Arbus

Miriam Arbus has an ongoing, developing practice interested in issues that intersect around new medias and digital technologies, post internet and post digital existences, and new feminisms. She investigates the shifting geographies of new realities and landscapes and the potentials this offers for openness and equalising representation. Her practice has taken form most frequently in curatorial pursuits: organising conceptually-driven exhibitions and participatory experiences that are responsive and relational.