Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was a Polish visual artist, writer, and
theatre director, who can be placed among a select group of the
twentieth century's most influential performance practitioners. The
breadth and diversity of his artistic endeavours align Kantor with
such varied figures as Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy),
Marcel Duchamp, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Oskar Schlemmer, Antonin
Artaud, Jackson Pollock, Jerzy Grotowski, Allan Kaprow, Peter
Brook, Pina Bausch, and Robert Wilson. In significant ways,
Kantor's work with the Cricot 2 company and his theories of theatre
consistently challenged and expanded the boundaries of traditional
and non-traditional theatre forms. Tadeusz Kantor's Memory: Other
pasts, other futures -- published following Kantor's centenary year
and the 60th anniversary of the founding of Cricot 2, as well as
anniversaries of the group's key productions The Dead Class (1975),
Wielopole, Wielopole (1980), and Let the Artists Die (1985) --
gathers international perspectives from across academia and the
arts to offer a major critical reappraisal of Kantor's work. The
book includes scholarly contributions by researchers from around
the world, alongside reflections by leading collaborators and
colleagues, and a selection of rarely seen images. Together, these
materials offer an invaluable, contemporary insight into Kantor's
theoretical and artistic practice and an unprecedented view of its
global sphere of influence. Michal Kobialka is Professor of Theatre
Arts at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of
Minnesota. He has published over 75 articles, essays, and reviews
in academic journals in the US and Europe. He is the author of A
Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990
(University of California Press, 1993), This Is My Body:
Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages (University of
Michigan Press, 1999), and Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor's
Theatre (University of Minnesota Press, 2009); editor of Of Borders
and Thresholds: Theatre History, Practice, and Theory (University
of Minnesota Press, 1999); and co-editor (with Barbara Hanawalt) of
Medieval Practices of Space (University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
as well as (with Rosemarie K. Bank) of Theatre/Performance
Historiography: Time, Space, Matter (Palgrave, 2015). Natalia
Zarzecka is Director of Cricoteka: The Centre for the Documentation
of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, in Krakow, where she has led
development of the centre's new building and museum space on the
Vistula river. She has co-curated several Polish and international
exhibitions, including within the Kantor Centenary programme at
Cricoteka (2015) and 'An Impossible Journey: The Art and Theatre of
Tadeusz Kantor' at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich,
UK, within the Polska! Year (2009). She is co-editor of Italian and
Polish editions of the Wielopole, Wielopole Dossier (Titivillus,
2006; Cricoteka, 2007) and Kantor Was Here (Black Dog Publishing,
2011), co-translator (with Silvia Parlagreco) of Podroz Tadeusza
Kantora kompendium biograficzne (2002), and author of various texts
on Tadeusz Kantor and Cricoteka. For more information about Polish
Theatre Perspectives, and to view Open Access editions of this and
other PTP titles, please visit www.ptp.press.
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