Theses on the Body Politic (Riket)
IC-98
Riket is a site-specific, pencil drawn animation set in the nocturnal garden of “Palazzo Rettig”, built by the Rettig family of shipowners and tobacco manufacturers in the 1920s, nowadays home of the Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museum in Turku, Finland.
Production Year
2009
Duration
00:13:40
Tyyppi
Asiasana
animated films, animation, buildings, darkness, drawing (artistic creation), media art, night, plays and games, ships, urban landscape, urban space, video art
Original Title
Theses on the Body Politic (Riket)
Finnish Title
Teesejä yhteiskuntaruumiista (Riket)
English Title
Theses on the Body Politic (Riket)
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
No
Cast
IC-98 (Author), IC-98 (Director), IC-98 (Illustrator), IC-98 (Cast), Markus Lepistö (Choreographer)
Press Photos
IC-98 (originally Iconoclast, founded in 1998) is Visa Suonpää and Patrik Söderlund. IC-98's projects often take the form of installations or publications, combining research, text, drawing and animation. Their intensely abstracted, identifiable visual language weaves myriad bridges between the material and mythical, individual and collective, nature and culture. The works concern the body politic, social formations and architectural constructions, different ecologies and the presence of human and natural history in everyday life. The works of IC-98 has been presented in exhibitions, biennales and projects around Nordic countries, Europe, The USA and Asia. In 2015, IC-98 represented Finland at Venice Biennale.
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