Pamięć – rzeczy, ludzie i miejsca
The spectacle Wielopole, Wielopole was shown on 15 December 1983 in Kantor’s birthplace – Wielopole Skrzyńskie - by the Rzeczypospolitej Theatre as part of guest performances given in Cracow, Rzeszów, and Warsaw. This event, which took place soon after the formal end of the martial law period albeit still in the atmosphere created by the latter, gathered local residents, journalists, Polish and French critics, as well as Church and local authorities. The documents of the performance – in the form a film record, reviews, and documentary films - complicate the already complex image of Wielopole, Wielopole against the background of Kantor’s creative biography, multiplying ambiguities and paradoxes in a tangle of political, social, artistic, and media reality. how many images of Wielopole are concealed within this multiplication? how is one to understand the creation of the family myth in the Tadeusz Kantor oeuvreand its transposition?The author depicts the structure of this issue of “Konteksty” commemorating Tadeusz Kantor upon the hundredth anniversary of his birth as the outcome of field research and courses realised in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Warsaw, the Institute of Art at the Polish Academy of Sciences, the editorial board of the quarterly “Konteksty”, the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw, the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor Cricoteka in Cracow, the Centre for Documentation and the Museum of the history of the Region – the Tadeusz Kantor Museum in Wielopole Skrzyńskie, and the Society of Friends of the Region of Wielopole.The presented issue of “Konteksty” will focus on “the anthropology of memory”, the cultural dimensions of memory, as well as its significance vis a vishistory and in reference to the discourse and reflections of the humanities in recent decades; it also contains chapters dealing with outstanding authors of post-war Polish culture who died in 2014 and 2015 – the poets Stanisław Barańczak and Tadeusz Różewicz, and the man of letters and film director Tadeusz Konwicki, all of whom regarded the topic of memory as extremely essential.
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