Walencje awangardy: o „Maszynie miłości i śmierci” Tadeusza Kantora i o dialektyce przestrzeni
The Valence of the Avant Garde: On Tadeusz Kantor’s Machine of Love and Death and the Dialectic of Space

Summary/Abstract: The point of departure for examining The Machine of Love and Death, a cricotage by Tadeusz Kantor, is an inquiry into the legacy of the avant-garde tradition in critical and artistic practice. Michał Kobiałka states that the spatial dialectic in this cricotage, and thus the tension that disrupts stable temporality between the representation of space and space of representation, can be a tool for probing the valence of the avant garde, and is Kantor’s greatest contribution to its legacy. Kobiałka shows that in two stagings of The Death of Tintagiles by Maurice Maeterlinck (1938, 1987) Kantor filters the Symbolist drama through the tools of abstract art.

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