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PTP Vol. 1, No. 2: Tadeusz Kantor: Twenty Years Later, with DVD-ROM Guest Edited by Natalia Zarzecka and Michal Kobialka The year 2010 marked the 20th anniversary of Tadeusz Kantor’s death as well as several key dates associated with Kantor's theatre, including: the 55th anniversary of the founding of Cricot 2 Theatre Company, the 35th anniversary of The Dead Class, the 30th anniversary of Wielopole, Wielopole, and the 25th anniversary of Let the Artists Die. To commemorate these anniversaries, Polish Theatre Perspectives will publish a special issue that will present the readers with a critical re-appraisal of Kantor’s work by researchers and practitioners from across academia and the arts. The issue gathers together the work of a younger generation of academics and practitioners who bring new critical and theoretical approaches to an appraisal of Kantor’s work as a visual artist; articles developed from papers presented at the Kantor: Today conference in December 2010 in Kraków; testimonies in different visual and narrative formats that shed light on the impact Kantor’s thinking about theatre and visual arts has had on traditional and nontraditional artistic practices; and translations of selected materials written by Kantor. Natalia Zarzecka is Director of Cricoteka, Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, in Kraków, Poland. Michal Kobialka is Professor of Theatre Arts in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota (USA). He has recently published Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre (2009). To enquire about availability, please write to enquiries@ptpjournal.com. |
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Above: Boy on a Bench by Tadeusz Kantor, courtesy of the Cricoteka Archives |
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Issue Contents: Michal Kobialka and Natalia Zarzecka, Prologue Part I Łucja Iwanczewska, Kantor’s Objects Martin Leach, Letting Tattered Clothing Sing: Tadeusz Kantor’s Anatomy Lesson Katarzyna Nocuń, Transfusing the Voice: Giving Voice as a Means of Overcoming Death in Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre Anna R. Burzyńska, Musicality in Tadeusz Kantor’s Wielopole, Wielopole Maja Saraczyńska, From the Theatre of Cruelty to the Theatre of Death: On a Theory Introduced into Theatrical Practice Mara Stylianou, The Theatre of Transgression: An Anti-Analysis of The Dead Class through Georges Bataille’s Eroticism Andrew Bielski, Kantor’s Waxworks: Anti-Theatricalism and the Personnel of the Theatre Cariad Astles, Presence and Memory: Kantor’s Living Puppet Theatre Mischa Twitchin, Kantor After Duchamp Daniel Watt, Kantor’s ‘Last Room’: Thinking the Object, Bio-Object, and Death Wagner Cintra, The Short Story of Tadeusz Kantor in Brazil María J. Sánchez Montes, Tadeusz Kantor in Spain Maria Pia Verzillo, Visible and Hidden Traces of Kantor’s Theatre in Italy Kee-Yoon Nahm, A Visit to Wielopole, Korea
Part II Klaus Dermutz, ‘The Horrors of War and the World, with the Circus Mixed’: Anselm Kiefer on Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre Grzegorz Niziołek, Fear, and then What... Jaromir Jedliński, Kantor and Beuys: Parallel Processes? Andrzej Turowski, Blinding Afterimages Katarzyna Fazan, Shadow of the Polish Odysseus: Wyspiański-Kantor-Grzegorzewski Lech Stangret, The Role of Drawing in the Creation of Tadeusz Kantor’s Auto-mythology Amos Fergombe, The Door, the Frame, Or the Transcendent Threshold in the World of Tadeusz Kantor Uta Schorlemmer, The Present Absence in Tadeusz Kantor’s and Christoph Schlingensief’s Late Performances Zbigniew Osiński, Tadeusz Kantor & Jerzy Grotowski: Two Ideas of Art/Theatre Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz, Kantor/Grotowski: Between the Mangle and Eternity Renato Palazzi, Kantor’s Greatness: An Uncomfortable Heritage
Part III Robert Wilson, An Homage to Tadeusz Kantor Janina Kraupe, A Meeting with Tadeusz Kantor Jacek Maria Stokłosa, Wanderers Luigi Arpini, The Eggs: A Poem for the Krzysztofory and Cricotango (A Stage Proposition for the Cricot 2) Loriano Della Rocca, Kantor in Kraków, 8 December 1990 – 8 December 2010 Jacquie Bablet, Kantor’s Finger and Kantor’s Smile Bogdan Renczyński, Kantor: The Actor/Artwork. Today Is My Birthday Andrzej Wełmiński, One Moment More, Mr Executioner... Marie Vayssière, Tadeusz Kantor in Charleville-Mezières Nenagh Watson, My Meeting with Kantor’s Umbrella Jan Fabre, Diary, 1985 Richard Demarco, Tadeusz Kantor Karl Gerhard Schmidt, Kantor’s Compelling Magic Valentina Valentini, The Object-Actor: Emballages, Happenings, Poverty Ruggero Bianchi, Kantor’s New Wood Gabriella Cardazzo, The Day I Met Tadeusz Kantor Romeo Castellucci, Unless I’m Mistaken... Dorit Cypis, History Lesson (An Arrangement) Hamed Taheri, Towards the True Materialistic Theatre, or Tadeusz Kantor with Friends Romano Martinis, Photography Kills the Human
Part IV Tadeusz Kantor - From the Author - My Journey Toward the Theatre of Death - Fear and Glory - I Am Not Really Interested in the Therapeutic Function of Theatre - Interventions - Le retour - O, Lord
Epilogue Michal Kobialka, Tadeusz Kantor’s Personal Confession: Notes on Late Style
Accompanying DVD I Shall Never Return by Tadeusz Kantor, filmed by Denis and Jacquie Bablet
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