Event overview
For the first in this year's Goldsmiths Performance Research Seminars we welcome, in conjunction with the Pinter Centre, the world expert on Tadeusz Kantor for a special anniversary lecture, followed by drinks.
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990), Polish visual artist and theatre director, was born on April 6, 1915.
He can be placed among a select group of the twentieth century’s most influential theatre practitioners. The breadth and diversity of his artistic endeavors align him with such diverse artists as, for example, Marcel Duchamp, Vsevelod Meyerhold, Oscar Schlemmer, Jackson Pollock, Jerzy Grotowski, Christo, Allan Kaprow, Robert Wilson, or Pina Bausch.
Kantor was positioned within the avant-garde movements represented by those artists. He started to work as artist during the modernist revolution instigated by the first wave avant-garde in France and the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s. His experiments with Informel Art, Emballages, and the Happenings took place at the time of the post-war European and American second wave avant-garde in the 1960s. His most widely known productions, outside of Poland, The Dead Class (1975), Wielopole, Wielopole (1980), Let the Artists Die (1985), I Shall Never Return (1988), and Today is my Birthday (1990) co-existed with diverse forms of postmodern art and theatre.
To commemorate the work of Tadeusz Kantor, Professor Michal Kobialka, University of Minnesota, will offer this lecture at Goldsmiths.
Michal Kobialka is a Professor of Theatre in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance at the University of Minnesota. He has published over 75 articles, essays and reviews on medieval, eighteenth-century and contemporary European theatre, as well as the theatre Tadeusz Kantor.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 28 Oct 2015 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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