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The Pulsating Plate

Summary/Abstract: The proposed attempt at reconstructing Tadeusz Kantor’s last spectacle Today is My Birthday is based on the mechanisms of photographs and human me- mory – the recreation and capturing of reality in acrooked and grotesque mirror, the distinction of the recollection as such and the reviving of remini- scences. Their imagined existence is evidence of the pulsating plate, while the consigning instance is the artist’s memory. The text is not so much presented as discussed, abandoned and then rhythmically revived, both in Kantor’s work and in the presented study. Such deciphering is steered by are-interpretation of Kantor’s oeuvre in the light of publications by M. Pie- niążek, R. Barthes, G. Didi-Huberman and S. Sontag, as well as apolemic with experts on Kantor. The ar- ticle undertakes asurvey of the artistic inspiration of Tadeusz Kantor, indissolubly connected with his life, in which death is perceived as an inevitable element. The remnants of disintegration and destruction enacted on the stage created for Kantor an aesthetic and artistic domain for conducting aquest. While creating his representations and multiplying doppel- gangers, Kantor produced photographs on the plates of theatrical spectacles, thus revealing the intimate and dark corridors of his memory. As adefender and adherent of the qualities of reality he claimed that in the theatre reality might exist exclusively thanks to illusion.

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