House of Khronos and Raa’anhaava Park of Wounded Earth

With backgrounds in visual arts and cultural history, IC-98’s collaboration spanning three decades has produced artist publications, site and context specific projects and interventions, animated moving image installations, short films and numerous public commissions. IC-98 received the Finnish State Art Prize in 2009 and represented Finland at the Venice Biennale in 2015. Their work has been showed extensively at museums, biennials and festivals in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

IC-98’s work since 2010s addresses the environmental crisis and artistic-political methods of finding solutions to it. Their projects seek to replace anthropocentric worldview with modes better suited to take into consideration the interrelationships, dependencies and myriad temporal rhythms of all animate and inanimate nature.

Animations Nekropolis (2016), Epokhe (2017), Lands of Treasure (2021), and short films Omnia mutantur (2018) and Impivaara (2024) are allegorical descriptions of time, climate, and how environmental and cultural histories merge in different eras. The site-specific projects House of Khronos (2016-), Mare tranquillitatis (2020), IÄI (2020) and the ongoing Raa’anhaava Park of Wounded Earth (2019-) have instead of mere artistic depiction sought to create tools – free zones, novel languages, new founding myths – to help this community of all organisms emerge from the crisis.