Malfunction, 3min40sec,
2004, video on DVD
Excess, 2min17sec, 2003, video on DVD
Last nation, 2min51sec, 2003, video on DVD
Statement
HK119 (Heidi Kilpelainen) is a London based Finnish artist, who
moves smoothly between the worlds of cabaret, pop music and contemporary
art. The performance name HK119 refers to product codes and in
creating her Œproduct_ she is the composer, lyricist, costume
and set designer, producer, director and performer. Much of her
work comments on the relationship between man and machine and
advancing technologies. Her fascination with dystopias has led
her to make video works, presenting songs in the style of a pop
video, featuring punk baroque characterisations. Other works
have been inspired by consumerism, popular culture and mass media
and society_s ever changing notions of Œself_. As well
as making the videos, live performance has always been an important
element within her practice with the set designs often referencing
the Bauhaus, Futurist and Russian Constructivist movements.
Biography
Heidi Kilpelainen was born in 1974 in Finland. She lives and works
in London (UK).
Selected exhibition
22 March – 15 April ‘05, Percy Miller Gallery, London
(UK)
10 March HK 119 live at Multi, Event in Tent/Rotterdam, Holland
15 Jan ‘05 – 19 Feb ‘05, ‘From A to B and
Back Again’, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris (France)
Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, Sept. ‘04
16 June ‘04, Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens (Greece)
New Contemporaries - touring exhibition, Liverpool (Sep.-Oct. ‘04)
and London, (Nov.-Jan. ‘05)
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