Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde.
This podcast is based on the premise that comparisons are useful, however should also be limited and conducted with caution. It also reclaims transdisciplinary approach as one that can allow grasping the formation and evolution of such phenomena as resistance and avant-garde. The aesthetic experience, understood as one conducted by the senses, in a cultural context, is the most general premise of theories, social movements, art projects and other things discussed here.
This is the podcast Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde, hosted by Ewa Majewska, with technical support of Sergio Frutos. This podcast was inspired by Agata Lisiak’s Spatial Delight.
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Introduction to Postcritical Psychogeographies Ewa Majewska
20.03.25
08:45
Why would I want to move between the weak resistance and weak avant-garde? Because I think that an act of weak resistance, a disagreement with the canon, always takes place before a weak avant-garde event, project or agency appears.
I called this podcast Postcritical Psychogeographies because I like the situationists and lettrists, you could say that I grew up reading them and about them, and doing psychogeography with my friends in Warsaw. I also grew up with the critical tradition, and my use of ‘postcritical’ is a way to expand, not stop, that current’s legacy.
Associate professor at the SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland. I am a feminist critical theorist of culture, working in the fields of cultural, feminist and critical studies, and researching the vast fields of social, political and artistic agency to discuss resistance and avant-garde, in their non-heroic, ordinary and weak formats. As a feminist scholar, I am sure that another resistance - one that had not been shaped accordingly to the masculine privilege and socialization, is possible, and I have conceptualized it as weak resistance. The notion of weak avant-garde quickly followed, as an offspring of my research into feminist, queer and other minoritarian strategies of negotiating and resisting the canon.
“Feminist Art of Failure, Ewa Partum and the Avant-garde of the Weak.” Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej, no. 16 (2016). https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.16.761
“Weak Resistance in Semi-Peripheries: The Emergence of Non-Heroic Counterpublics.” In Global Cultures of Contestation, edited by Esther Peeren, Robin Celikates, Jeroen de Kloet, and Thomas Poell, 1–26. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society Series, Springer International Publishing, (2018) 49-68 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63982-6_3
“Słaby opór. obraz, wspólnota i utopia poza paradygmatem heroicznym.” Praktyka Teoretyczna 32, no. 2 (2019): 7–20. https://doi.org/10.14746/prt.2019.2.0
“Słaba estetyka – w stronę feministycznej teorii awangardy.” In Estetyka / Inestetyka: Współczesne Teorie Działań Artystycznych, edited by Piotr Graczyk, Cezary Woźniak, and Mateusz Falkowski. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2020. https://wuj.pl/ksiazka/estetyka-inestetyka-1
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Majewska, Ewa. “Introduction to Postcritical Psychogeographies.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. March, 20, 2025. Podcast, episode 0, 08:45. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_0/
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EPISODE 1
Introducing the concept of weak avant-garde
Ewa Partum versus the neo-avant-garde practice Ewa Majewska
10.06.25
36:15
In this episode we discuss the concept of weak avant-garde in relation to the artwork of Ewa Partum, her three performances from the early 1980. In these artworks the artist challenged her own position as recognized artist, and invited stupidity, idioticism, naivete as her allies. Theories of Boris Groys and Jack Halberstam are referenced, and the discussion goes direction neo-avant-garde - showing that Partum's artwork, just as many post-1960 art project by women, people of ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as groups, do not fit in the ‘neo-avant-garde’, as defined by Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloch, but nevertheless can be seen as avant-garde practices.
Associate professor at the SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland. I am a feminist critical theorist of culture, working in the fields of cultural, feminist and critical studies, and researching the vast fields of social, political and artistic agency to discuss resistance and avant-garde, in their non-heroic, ordinary and weak formats. As a feminist scholar, I am sure that another resistance - one that had not been shaped accordingly to the masculine privilege and socialization, is possible, and I have conceptualized it as weak resistance. The notion of weak avant-garde quickly followed, as an offspring of my research into feminist, queer and other minoritarian strategies of negotiating and resisting the canon.
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Read more from Ewa Majewska:
“Feminist Art of Failure, Ewa Partum and the Avant-garde of the Weak.” Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej, no. 16 (2016). https://doi.org/10.36854/widok/2016.16.761
“Słaba estetyka – w stronę feministycznej teorii awangardy.” Estetyka / Inestetyka: Współczesne Teorie Działań Artystycznych, edited by Piotr Graczyk, Cezary Woźniak, and Mateusz Falkowski. Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2020. https://wuj.pl/ksiazka/estetyka-inestetyka-1
References for the topic of weak avant-garde and neo-avant-garde:
Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, transl. Robert Hullot-Kentor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Benjamin Buchloch, Neo-avant-garde and Culture Industry. Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975, Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 2000.
Peter Bürger, Theory of the Avant-Garde, Minneapolis and Manchester: University of Minneassotta Press, 1984.
Hal Foster, “What's Neo about the Neo-Avant-Garde?” October, 70 (1)1994: 5-32.
Boris Groys, The Weak Universalism, in: e-flux 04 (15)/2010
Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011).
Václav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless,” transl. Paul Wilson, International Journal of Politics, Vol. 15, No. 3-4, “The Power of the Powerless” (1985-86): 23-96.
Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
Maria Morzuch (ed), Nic nie zatrzyma idei sztuki (Nothing stops the idea of art). Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2016.
Jan Patočka, Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, trans. Erazim Kohák (Chicago: Open Court 1996).
Piotr Piotrowski, Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe, (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2012).
Jacques Rancière, Ignorant Schoolmaster (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991).
James Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985).
Andrzej Turowski, The Greatness of Desire: On the Feminist Conceptualism of Ewa Partum in the 1970s, in: Aneta Szylak et al (eds.), Ewa Partum (Gdansk: Fundacja Sztuki Wyspa, 2013).
Gianni Vattimo, Dialectics, Difference, Weak Thought, in: Idem (ed.), Weak Thought (New York: SUNY, 2012).
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Majewska, Ewa. “Introducing the concept of weak avant-garde. Ewa Partum versus the neo-avant-garde practice.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. June, 10, 2025. Podcast, episode 1, 36:15. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_1/
Keywords:
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EPISODE 2
Planetarity
What it has to do with weak avant-garde? Joanna Warsza, Tim Waterman, Ewa Majewska
20.07.25
32:08
I decided to discuss with thinkers and curators working on planetarity, because I believe in large scale thinking and I also believe most of us stumble over the scale of today’s most engaging phenomena, such as the climate crisis, rise of border regimes, neoliberal globalization and return of fundamentalism. I thus thought that speaking with those, who try to embrace the large scale will give us a sense of the large perspective for discussions on weaknesses, criticality and psychogeographic practice.
Stadtkuratorin of the city of Hamburg for the years 2024-2029, curator working internationally, mostly on large public art group shows (Berlin Biennale, Autostrada Biennale, Manifesta Petersburg, Radical Playgrounds at Martin-Gropious Bau; public program Munich, Stadium X, Warsaw; Polish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale with the work of Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas). She worked as the curatorial studies coordinator at the Kunstfack of Soddertorn University in Stockholm, Sweden.
Tim Waterman
Professor of Landscape Theory and Inter-Programme Collaboration Director at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His research addresses imaginaries: moral, political, social, ecological, radical, and utopian. This forms the basis for explorations of power and democracy and their shaping of public space and public life; taste, manners, belief and ritual; and foodways in community and civic life and landscape. He is the author of The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design and editor of Landscape Citizenships with Ed Wall and Jane Wolff, Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays with Ed Wall, and the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food with Joshua Zeunert.
Ewa Majewska
Associate professor at the SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland. I am a feminist critical theorist of culture, working in the fields of cultural, feminist and critical studies, and researching the vast fields of social, political and artistic agency to discuss resistance and avant-garde, in their non-heroic, ordinary and weak formats. As a feminist scholar, I am sure that another resistance - one that had not been shaped accordingly to the masculine privilege and socialization, is possible, and I have conceptualized it as weak resistance. The notion of weak avant-garde quickly followed, as an offspring of my research into feminist, queer and other minoritarian strategies of negotiating and resisting the canon.
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Majewska, Ewa. “Planetarity. What it has to do with weak avant-garde?.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. July, 20, 2025. Podcast, episode 2, 32:08. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_2/
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EPISODE 3
Avant-garde and against it
With Antje Majewski Antje Majewski, Ewa Majewska
10.08.25
15:45
Antje Majewski is a painter with a research-based, conceptual and collaborative practice that includes other media. Her work looks at nature/culture entanglements of human beings, objects, territories, and plants. She deals with the question of the representation, narration and transformation of reality. Majewski is a professor of Fine Art and Painting at Braunschweig University of Art. Projects organized by Antje Majewski have been shown at M_HKA, Antwerp, Kunstmuseum Thun, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Museum of Art in Łódź, Kunsthaus Graz, HKW Berlin and others. She lives and works in Berlin and Himmelpfort.
Majewska, Ewa. “Avant-garde and against it. With Antje Majewski.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. August, 10, 2025. Podcast, episode 3, 15:45. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_3/
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Patricia Reed is a feminist artist and theorist, since 2019 she has been the Masters Tutor at the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) in the Critical Inquiry Lab. She co-authored the Xenofeminist Manifesto (Verso, 2018), as part of Laboria Cubonix, and recently published the book Cosmovisiones de otro mundo: Reimaginando el pensamiento planetario, trans. Federico Fdez. Giordano, (Barcelona: Holobionte Ediciones, 2025). She lives and works in Berlin. More: https://aestheticmanagement.com/biography/
Majewska, Ewa. “Resistance, scale, planetarity. With Patricia Reed.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. August, 16, 2025. Podcast, episode 4, 39:25. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_4/
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EPISODE 5
About the canon - feminist strategies
Marina Abramović versus Martha Rosler Ewa Majewska
21.08.25
32:08
This Episode is dedicated to the amazing feminist artist and a great Friend, Martha Rosler, and I need to express my sincere apologies for waiting more than 10 years with the realization of my idea - first to compare Rosler and Abramovich, and then also to discuss the Meta Monumental Garage Sale, shown at the NY's MoMA in 2012. In this podcast I offer some initial points and analysis, basically leading to the conclusion that the performative, critical, political and artistic value of Martha Rosler's intervention at the NY MoMA in 2012 consisted in spectacularly failing.
Referencing the concept of “queer art of failure” of Jack Halberstam, I show, how the unwillingness, inability and resistance to succeeding as the “yet another MoMA exhibited artist” made of Rosler and her garage sale project a true mile stone in the feminist and Marxist strategizing of entering the canon. Differently from most critics, who most frequently suggest that Rosler's project, while interesting, and invested in feminist anthropology and critical theory, did not have a groundbreaking value, I argue for appreciating the project's ultimate resignation, whether intended or not is something I still need to debate with the artist, of making any success - her older works were not presented, thus their value did not experience a sudden magnifying effect; no art object (not even documentation) was created, the newspaper published as a companion to the project, cannot be seen as an art object, the artist's competence, beauty, intelligence and craft were not sanctified (as was the case during Abramovic's show The Artist is present). So my claim is that by means of refusing to successfully use the incredible opportunities the show at NY MoMA offered her, Rosler not only failed at being a successful contemporary artist, but also undermined and unmasked the very problematic character of succeeding in neoliberal capitalism's economy and the artistic field of it in particular.
Martha Rosler is the feminist artist from NY's Greenpoint, working in photography, video, performance and participatory projects, contesting the capitalist logic of expropriation, accumulation, value production and alienation, by means of art practice and theory. Her projects, perhaps most prominently: Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975), House Beautiful: Bringing the war home (1967-1972), If you lived here (1989) gained her international fame as critical, feminist artist, while the theoretical writings on value production, representation and art also made of her an important cultural critic.
More on the Meta Monumental Garage Sale at the NY MoMA 2012 and the artist: https://www.moma.org/calendar/performance/1261 https://www.martharosler.net/garage-sale-carousel
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Majewska, Ewa. “About the canon - feminist strategies. Marina Abramović versus Martha Rosler.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. August, 21, 2025. Podcast, episode 5, 32:08. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_5/
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EPISODE 6
Podcast as care
With Agata Lisiak Agata Lisiak, Ewa Majewska
23.08.25
27:16
Our conversation with Agata Lisiak concerning feminism, theory, urban and critical studies has been ongoing since more than a decade. This is why it is so complicated to just make a short interview with her. The research she has conducted concerning the feminist critical geographer, Doreen Massey and the Polish-Jewish-German communist economist, Rosa Luxemburg, became a topic of her inspiring podcast, the Spatial Delight, available on the website of the journal Sociological Review.
Her podcast inspired me to begin my own podcast, and while I cannot compete with the elegance and caring approach of what she did there, I hope this is a valid tribute of recognition, along with all the complements I pay to her outstanding work. In our episode, Agata gives us feminist and decolonial insights into the perspective on avant-garde, but also knowledge production, situationism and psychogeography, as well as critical urban studies.
Agata Lisiak is Migration Studies professor and Academic Director of the Internship Program at Bard College Berlin as well as Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has held visiting fellowships at National Sun Yat-sen University, The Open University, and the University of Birmingham. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University’s Institute of Social Sciences (2013-2017) and a Marie Curie Actions/EURIAS fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna (2013-2014). She works at the intersections of migration studies, urban sociology, and cultural studies. She is particularly interested in everyday urban encounters and imaginaries, feminist theory and practice, and developing creative, multi-sensory, and collaborative methods in urban and migration research. She has written about urban girlhood, migrant motherhood, walking in the city, urban sounds, cultural memory in post-socialist cities, and Rosa Luxemburg's political ecology, among many other topics. Most recently, she was the convener and lead of the OSUN-funded Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice project and served on the Steering Committee of the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network. Agata is the writer, host, and producer of Spatial Delight, a podcast about space, politics, and power inspired by geographer Doreen Massey.
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Majewska, Ewa. “Podcast as care. With Agata Lisiak.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. August, 23, 2025. Podcast, episode 6, 27:16. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_6/
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EPISODE 7
Between queer aesthetics and queer justice
Conversation with dr Antke Engel Antke Antek Engel, Ewa Majewska
25.08.25
31:07
The many conversations we engage in together with Antke Antek Engel, always are inspired. They think totally out of the box, it is like as if feminist, queer, poststructural and critical theories were reshuffled anew, every single time. Their concepts of queerversity and the queerverse begun as a critical take on the much flattened notion of diversity, in many ways appropriated by neoliberal academia and culture to offer a superficial vision of embodied difference.
They discuss it in the intersection of queer aesthetics and justice, making our discussion return to the politico-aesthetic intertwining, crucial for the birth of the early 20th century avant-garde, as problematic, as this legacy is today. In their feminist-queer-deconstructive efforts, Antke offer novel ways of naming and discussing central elements of culture, greatly contributing not just to our conversations on avant-garde, but on political epistemology for tomorrow more broadly.
Antke Antek Engel (they/them) is an independent scholar, cultural producer, and consultant in the fields of queer, feminist and poststructuralist theory, political philosophy, visual cultural studies and queer art. They received their Ph.D. in Philosophy at Potsdam University in 2001 with a thesis on queer politics of representation and the strategy of undisambiguation, published under the title Wider die Eindeutigkeit (2002). In 2006 Engel founded the Institute for Queer Theory and since then functions as its director. Engel held/holds visiting professorships at Hamburg University (2003/2005), Vienna University (2011), Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin (2016), TU Darmstadt (2018/19), FernUniversity Hagen (2019-22), Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt (2023). Currently, they are working on a new book Queerversity as a Principle of Planetary Pluralism. More Info: http://www.queer-institut.de/en/who-where/director-team/
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Majewska, Ewa. “Between queer aesthetics and queer justice. Conversation with dr Antke Engel.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. August, 25, 2025. Podcast, episode 7, 31:07. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_7/
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EPISODE 8
Avant-garde and the counterpublics
With Stevphen Shukaitis Stevphen Shukaitis, Ewa Majewska
27.08.25
29:27
Stevphen Shukaitis teaches at the University of Essex. He grew up in Pennsylvania, where he became involved in the independent music scene, organizing music and arts events and working in independent radio and music production. For over twenty years, Shukaitis has been active in autonomous and independent publishing.
Since 2005 he has worked with Autonomedia and is the founder and editor of the Minor Compositions imprint. His academic work explores class composition, creative labor, collective creativity, and the organization of arts and cultural production, combining critical theory with engaged practice. He has authored including: The Wages of Dreamwork: Class Composition, Social Reproduction, and Cultural Labor (2024, with Joanna Figiel); Combination Acts: Notes on Collective Practice in the Undercommons (2019); Riotous Epistemology: Imaginary Power, Art, and Insurrection (2019, with Richard Gilman-Opalsky); The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics & Cultural Labor After the Avant-Garde (2016); and Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life (2009). Shukaitis engages in a wide range of public-facing activities, collaborating with arts organizations, museums, and civil society groups. He has organized and curated several high-profile art exhibitions, including the first large-scale retrospective of Gee Vaucher’s work at Firstsite (Colchester, 2016) and Machinations, an exhibition on the influence of Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze at the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2023). His work bridges scholarship, cultural production, and activism, emphasizing collaborative practices and the political potential of creative practice.
Majewska, Ewa. “Avant-garde and the counterpublics. With Stevphen Shukaitis.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. August, 27, 2025. Podcast, episode 8, 29:27. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_8/
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EPISODE 9
Avant-garde as gendered value production
With prof. Angela Dimitrakaki Angela Dimitrakaki, Ewa Majewska
28.08.25
34:47
Angela Dimitrakaki is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh. She was the Program Director of the MSc in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating and Criticism until July 2025, and is currently on a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to research the metaphorical uses of ‘family’ in art and photography from the postwar period to the 21st century.
Angela's academic research focuses on feminism and Marxism in art history and beyond; art and curating in relation to labor, production and social reproduction; art institutions; globalization, imperialism and colonialism; art and culture in the diverse social contexts of post-1989 Europe; lens-based media, video and film as well as participatory and socially engaged art paradigms; contemporary democracy, class politics, and antifascism. Angela authored several books, including: Feminism. Art. Capitalism, Pluto Press 2025; Gender ArtWork and the Global Imperative, University of Manchester Press 2013; Art and Globalisation: From the Postmodern Sign to the Biopolitical Arena, Hestia Athens 2013 (in Greek). She has co-edited the volumes: Depression Era: A Collective Lens in the Age of Crisis, with Alex Strecker, 2025; ECONOMY: Art, Production and the Subject in the 21st Century, with Kirsten Lloyd, 2015; Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions, with Lara Perry, 2013. In 2017, she co-edited the special issue of Third Text on Social Reproduction and Art with Kirsten Lloyd, and, in 2019, the special issue Anti-fascism/Art/Theory with Harry Weeks for the same journal. In 2016, she was guest editor, with S. Farris, G. LeBaron and S. Ferguson, of the special issue on Social Reproduction for Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. Angela has contributed chapters to numerous edited volumes, articles to academic journals, and papers to conferences.
Majewska, Ewa. “Avant-garde as gendered value production. With prof. Angela Dimitrakaki.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. August, 28, 2025. Podcast, episode 9, 34:47. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_9/
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EPISODE 10
Avant-garde in Eastern European art and sound experiments
With Māra Traumane Māra Traumane, Ewa Majewska
04.09.25
25:52
Māra Traumane is an art historian and curator, researcher at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga. Her research focuses on artistic practices in Eastern Europe after WWII. Currently, she is working on her doctoral thesis dedicated to the artists’ group Workshop for the Restoration of Unfelt Feelings (1982-1989).
From 2014 till 2017 she was a research fellow in the research project Literatur und Kunst vor Gericht: Fokus Osteuropa (Art and Literature on Trial. Focus Eastern Europe) at the Seminar for Slavonic Studies, University of Zürich. She is co-editor of the anthology Kunst vor Gericht. Ästhetische Debatten im Gerichtssaal (Berlin: Matthes&Seitz, 2018, with Sandra Frimmel). Her articles on interdisciplinary art and performance in Eastern Europe, feminist reading of legacies of women artists and art of Socialist Realism in Latvia had been published in several international book publications as well as in the journal ARTMargins.
Majewska, Ewa. “Avant-garde in Eastern European art and sound experiments. With Māra Traumane.” Postcritical Psychogeographies. From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde. September, 04, 2025. Podcast, episode 10, 25:52. https://ewa-majewska.com/podcast/episode_10/
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