Ram opatrywanie. Na marginesach koncepcji Instytutu Rozbrojenia Kultury i Zniesienia Wojen
Dressing Wounds. Conception of the Institute for Disarmament of Culture and Abolition of War

Summary/Abstract: In 2016 artists Krzysztof Wodiczko and Jarosław Kozakiewicz proposed a symbolic establishment in Piłsudski Square in Warsaw, or rather underneath its surface, of a sui generis meta-monument or memory site simultaneously dedicated to reflections on the official mechanisms of remembrance. For the time being the Józef Rotblat Institute for Disarmament of Culture and Abolition of War, which thanks to, i.a. philosophy, law and art is supposed to cultivate ”the culture of conflict without violence” is a phantom on the borderline of visibility. Up to now unintended for physical realisation and functioning merely within the sphere of plans and initial visualisations the Institute is to render visible the ideological and militaristic entanglements of, i.a. conventional monuments. The presented article is an attempt at taking a look at the Institute and other affiliated anti-war undertakings by Krzysztof Wodiczko, i.a. from the vantage point of an image comprehended as testimony, artistic work involving memory, and expansion of the field of the visible, also within the context of the ”frames of war” discussed by Judith Butler. Apparently, it seems that dressing symbolic wounds as well as totally real ones depends on the opportunity of viewing precisely ”Butlerian” frames.

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