Slant Touring Screening
A Collaboration with
Market Gallery
Sunday 4 October 2026, 19:00
Marathonos 69, Athens, 10435
Slant is an artist-run moving image project developed by Market Gallery (Glasgow, Scotland) in collaboration with Mouries Collective (Athens, Greece), Outpost (Norwich, England) and TCB (Naarm, Australia).
For this touring screening of Slant, Market Gallery has selected films from programs previously presented across three weekly screenings at Market in September 2026, each partner artist-run organisation curated a programme of moving image works by artists connected to their local context.
The project brings together different artist-led ecologies, placing works, methods and questions into conversation across distance. Taking its title from Emily Dickinson’s “Tell all the truth but tell it slant —”, Slant thinks through moving image as an oblique form: one that approaches truth indirectly, through relation, circulation and exchange.
The screening is accompanied by a collaborative publication — part programme, part research document — weaving together notes, references and reflections from each artist-run project.
A touring screening, drawn from the partner programmes and threaded together by Market, will be presented by each collaborating organisation in their space from October–December. Presented in Athens as part of the Collective of Collectives Festival by Market Gallery and Mouries Collective at Fydani Space, Marathnos 69, Sunday 4 October 2026, 19:00
PicNic Manifesto
ongoing activity
in Athens Public Spaces
During the last years, we are experiencing an increasing threat of privatization over Athenian public spaces. Presented as “renovations”, “embellishments”, “hygienization”, “defense of order”, or plainly as plans for tourism attractions. These diverse interventions on parks and hills reduce their green areas and aim to limit their usage, accommodating it to profiting schemes and to a view of the city that disregards its inhabitants’ vital needs.
Amidst this contested scenario, picnics emerge as a convoking and resisting quotidian activity that refreshes the air and renovates our possibilities to experience public space as a joyful common. We invite you to help us write a Picnic Manifesto! How do picnics materialize our views of the type of city where we want to live? How do they express our views on coexistence, welcomeness and sharing?
The first Picnic Manifesto was at Akadimia Platonos Park, adding to the many actions being done to support the park’s existence as it is, against the cutting of 314 trees and the invasion of bulldozers and cement. The second was in Strefi Hill Exarchia, November, 2023.
This will be an ongoing Mouries’ activity at various parks in the city. Bring friends and whatever you’d like to share (fruits? ideas? cookies? questions?) We look forward to see you there!
Mouries Collective 