Short BIOGRAPHY
Practice as an artist since 1969, while working as an art teacher of comprehensive and upper secondary school until 2001.
Solo exhibitions, performance- and video installations and numerous performances in Finland and other countries.
2004 received The State Prize for Visual Art
Since 1990 concentrates mainly in performance art
2002 starts working with video and also combines video with live performance
2003- works also in BARGAIN- artist group
2010- performing also together with Sinikka Törmälä and Soile Iivonen as HSS-team
Live performances - being always pre-considered - are visual acts, 3-dimensional images in time with movement and in most cases natural sound. They can also be interactive, usually durational happenings together with voluntary participants or live performance installations.
The starting point can be in simple everyday actions or objects, sometimes in childhood memories. During the performance ordinary things and actions turn, change and question their usual significance hopefully bringing surprises and revealing new meanings to the spectator and also to the performer.
Personal is political: the works deal mainly with trying to find the universal level within personal experiences by making visible small incidents, subtle shades and relations, which influence us even if unnoticed.
Video works www.av-arkki.fi/en/artists/helina-hukkataival_en/
Old works http://www.hukkataival.fi