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IC-98 (originally 'Iconoclast', founded in 1998) aims to realize its objectives
typically in collaborations, drawings, animations and books. The objectives
are not programmatic, nor are the messages unequivocal – on the contrary, they
are in constant movement towards the intersections of individual intuition and
mutual agreements – the ideal is a free space of thought. IC-98 is interested in
events, which did not take place, fantastic connections between things, heresies
and pure systems of though, the presence of history in everyday life, the body
politic, social formations and architectural constructions, control mechanism and
techniques of escaping them.

The medium of choice always follows strategically the context, its history and
present situation, and the objectives in question. In practice, traditional research
is combined with intuitive, subjective and personal considerations. The drawings,
animations and books (the typical but not only mediums of choice) are ambiguous
mashups constructed from diverse sources of information. They are stages or
stagings, tableaux vivants, a theatre where the world according to IC-98 is played
out. All IC-98 projects can be characterized as narrative constructs, blueprints of
the possible or scripts for action. They try not to close on themselves but to act
as condensations of diverse fluxes, both linguistic and affective – they open up
to point something out or to bring something together, like expanded collages.
IC-98 strives for an expressive quality, which retains traces of incompleteness,
a process or becoming – it is a language but a language which stutters, which
has obscurities and strange gaps, a cartography that escapes pure reason.
In general, what IC-98 is after is the virtual.

The ongoing series Theses on the Body Politic is an umbrella for all IC-98’s
activities . Most of the group’s interest is directed towards the ways a society of
living and thinking individual bodies organises itself. The organisation always
contains heterogenous and contradictory elements: power, knowledge, passions,
architecture and large technological systems. IC-98 asks: How the multitude is
defined, how it defines itself in action and how it is put into work? What is the
relationship of individuals and groups to a larger whole, be it the state, the market,
or simply architectural space?


See: Iconoclast Publications>
Introduction to IC-98 (printable PDF)