Miejsca rzeczy zdegradowanych w pamięci lokalnej i instytucjonalnej. O Tadeuszu Kantorze w Wielopolu Skrzyńskim
Places of Degraded Concepts in Local and Institutional Memory. On Tadeusz Kantor in Wielopole Skrzyńskie

Summary/Abstract: The protagonists of this article: chest, a suitcase, a cross, a chair, a kerosene lamp, a teacup, and a photograph play a prominent part in commemorating Tadeusz Kantor in Wielopole Skrzyńskie. Although they have nothing in common with the artist and do not possess historical or aesthetic merits they became exhibits displayed in a museum and, subsequently, a memory chamber dedicated to Tadeusz Maria Kantor in the Wielopole secondary school. The process of capturing their ambiguous and changing status is assisted by the category of the “poor object” derived from the Kantor theatre, which renders their presence in a museum celebrating the artist an extremely ironic coincidence. The “poverty” of objects, revealed contrary to the intentions of the authors of the exhibition, became the lead protagonist in the creation of institutional memory about Kantor.

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