ic-98 Introduction Founded in 1998, consists of ic-98 is an exception on the Finnish art scene, in that their starting points lie, not in currents within art, but in social, cultural and philosophical discourse. The collaboration between the artists in the group, Patrik Söderlund Visa Suonpää and Patrik Söderlund, began, not at art school, but on humanist studies at the University (b. 1974, Turku, Finland) of Turku. They began to expand on the modes of thinking offered by their alma mater and ended up as Lives and works in Turku, Finland visual artists in a field that, during its post-1960s history, has been open to new and experimental forms
[email protected] of expression. ic-98’s situation-specific and site-specific art applies critical social theories to the almost unlimited array of methods of post-medium art. Out of these diverse ingredients has emerged an incisive Visa Suonpää social thinking that offers acute interpretations of the realm of nature that inhabits the planet. (b. 1968, Tampere, Finland) ic-98 first made a name for themselves at the end of the 1990s with interventions in public space and Lives and works in Turku, Finland their Iconoclast Publications, which combined graphically refined drawing and text. Works based on real
[email protected] places and events are mingled with fictive elements that emphasize possible other or alternative histories. ic-98 take their viewers on urban-geography excursions into Turku that delve deep into history, and into Contact poignant insights that dissect global systems of oppression. Post-1960s French thinking permeates their
[email protected] various publications, and in accordance with this the artists avoid any totalizing final conclusions, empha- socialtoolbox.com sizing the simultaneity of a number of viewpoints and the incompleteness of things.