Jonathan Cant is an artist and researcher from Belgium. He makes music as Nillies Nihilist and cratje. Together with Laura Conant he runs the Brussels’ based MONTAGE label and party series.  Throughout his work there is a strong interest in the intersection of sound with identity, politics and class. Jonathan strongly believes that the ways we interact with music form us, and that musical scenes thus offer special ways of constructing collective identities. By offering ways of being, music gives us agency by building our own little utopias for a night. In the past, Jonathan has done research on the possibilities for new electronic music from the global south to invert the classical economic centre-periphery dynamic. Lately, he has been researching how clubs occupy old spaces of labour (i.e. old industry), zooming in on the gentrifying dynamics that come from these cultural developments.  Jonathan’s recent work for MONTAGE has been focused on accessibility in an effort for inclusivity through open discourse. Furthermore, through the organisation of events & fundraisers, MONTAGE has been trying to directly politicise electronic music, concretizing the link between alternative culture and alternative ideals. In this context, MONTAGE was a part of the event Estafette4Palestine, calling out the ongoing genocide in Palestine & raising funds for the support of Palestinian refugees in Belgium.