Tadeusz Kantor's Memory: Other pasts other futures

Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was a Polish visual artist writer and theatre director who can be placed among a select group of the twentieth centurys 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 Kantors 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 Kantors Memory: Other pasts other futures -- published following Kantors centenary year and the 60th anniversary of the founding of Cricot 2 as well as anniversaries of the groups 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 Kantors 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 Kantors 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 Kantors 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 Kraków where she has led development of the centres 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 Podróż 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.