SAVE THE DATE – 25 years of Market – 1st to 6th September

Market Gallery is turning 25!! To honour this milestone we will be hosting a week of events in celebration of Market’s history and future, orbiting around two key prompts:

to consent not to be a single being / the future and past must be superstitious

Reflecting on the changing nature of artist-organising and artist-run initiatives, this programme stages a series of discursive and performative events responding to the urgent socio-political, economic & ecological concerns of our times. Together we will explore alternative value metrics, collective action, resonant practices, ineffable dreams and movements towards one another. We will move through a week spanning workshops, screenings, talks and collective study, culminating in a night of live performances and music.

Keep your ears to the ground . . . more details coming soon !

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to consent not to be a single being 

Taken from Edouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, ‘to consent not to be a single being’ dissolves false ideas of nation states and borders; looking beyond oppressive and constraining binaries and undermining Western tellings of history. Through refusals of individualism, Glissant instead encourages us to explore together the possibilities that exist within the infinite ways we are connected on both global and local scales. 

the future and past must be superstitious

Paraphrasing Beatriz Santiago Muñoz in her text I am going to describe a ritual which explores the relationship of filmmaking to dynamics of oppression and resistance through the sacred Vodou practices in Haiti. She goes on, writing; ‘All these things live together, we drink them all down in a single swallow, they exist not in one past or another, but all in the same present and memory.’ Her work shows that the imperial is not separate from the ritual, that the sacred resonates across all registers, colliding with the histories of language, culture and oppression at once.