'Wielopole, Wielopole' Tadeusza Kantora przedstawione 15 grudnia 1983 w kościele parafialnym w Wielopolu Skrzyńskim. Medialny obraz wydarzenia
‘Wielopole, Wielopole’ by Tadeusz Kantor Shown in the Parish Church in Wielopole Skrzyńskie. The Medial Image of the Event

Summary/Abstract: The text concentrates on the motif of a “media scandal” caused by a presentation of the spectacle Wielopole, Wielopolein the hometown of Tadeusz Kantor in December 1983. By evoking selected fragments from the staging of this play at the time of the Polish tournées in 1980 and 1983 the author outlined the intriguing background of the presentation composed of non-obvious correlations of medial, political, artistic, and local reality. In a wider context the analysis pertains to the complex structure of the spectacle’s language, with due attention paid to the changes that the production underwent from the time of its premiere to its final presentation as well as the context accompanying its staging in Poland in 1980 and 1983. This text attempts to prove that heretofore unexamined contexts and the absence of a sufficiently critical and competent examination of the participation of medial mediation in the creative biography of the Artist have produced a unique manipulation, whose effects are present in the reception of the Kantor oeuvre up to this day.

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