The theme of the pre-Christmas Debuts will be “non-places”—places on the fringes of social interest that we overlook and that do not quite belong to either the city or nature. However, non-places can also be the landscapes of our bodies, subjected to similarly devaluing pressures from notions of so-called civilized beauty. Various forms of resistance are rising up against these pressures. Looking at the landscape has never been so political.

Martina Malinová is a poet, documentary filmmaker, and activist. In her collection The Shared Economy of Bodily Fluids (2025), she writes about motherhood, physicality, societal expectations, and the anxieties of a contemporary world marked by ecological and social crises.

Barbora Müllerová is a poet, visual artist, and author. In her poetry collection Atlas of the Underbrush (2025), created in collaboration with photographer Nora Třísková, she explores urban wilderness, wastelands, thickets, and other neglected places. It is precisely in these places that she finds stories of both human and non-human inhabitants and space for reflections on vulnerability, loss, renewal, and hope.

Both authors share an interest in what is often overlooked, marginalized, or considered less valuable—whether it be the body, the landscape, or life on the margins.

Moderated by poet Roman Polách.