viikkovolyymin

Viikkovolyymin is a piece of Finnish conceptual and collaborative art that focuses on taxation and economic power structures of society. It is a dictionary that perfectly mimics the official Finnish dictionary Saunalahti's Tax Dictionary, but with artificially inflated prices for every word. The work questions the socio-economic systems behind pricing and taxation in small-scale art businesses in Finland.

Viikkovolyymin was created in 2016 by ten Finnish and Icelandic artists. The artists making up the team sold each of their staff a copy of the normal Saunalahti Tax Dictionary for 82 euros and one of the artificially inflated dictionaries for the same price, hoping that the purchasing employees would unknowingly be purchasing a tax-creating addition to their first a standardised vocabulary purchasing item.