PODCAST
Postcritical Psychogeographies
From Weak Resistance to Weak Avant-Garde


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.

Guests: Joanna Warsza, Tim Waterman

Host: Ewa Majewska

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About:

Joanna Warsza

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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