Part I: Topography of Representation 1. From the Beginning in his Credo Was . . . 2. Tadeusz Kantor’s Objects and Machines: Materialism of the Encounter 3. Tadeusz Kantor’s Happenings: Reality, Mediality, and History 4. Of Memory and History: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Minima Moralia Part II: Cairological Time 5. Of the Memory of a Human Unhoused in Being 6. Delirium of the Flesh: 'All the Dead Voices' in the Space of the Now 7. Of Last Things in Memento Mori: Silence, Eternity, and Death 8. Valences of the Avant-Garde: Of Tadeusz Kantor’s Machine of Love and Death and Spatial Dialectics Part III: Refractory Art 9. A Note on Working through Crisis: Theorizing Polish Socialist Realism, 1945-49 10. Historical Events and Historiography of Tourism 11. The Meaning of Working through the Past: Of Awkward Objects and Collateral Memories 12. Specters of the Past: An Installation in the Times of Disquiet Epilogue. Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Personal Confessions: Notes on Late Style
Biography
Michal Kobialka is Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Minnesota, USA. He has published widely on theatre and performance historiography as well as on Tadeusz Kantor’s theatre. His most recent book publication is Staging Difficult Pasts: Transnational Memory, Theatre, and Museums (Routledge, 2024), which he co-edited with Maria M. Delgado and Bryce Lease.
