I recently designed a book for a duo of musicians, Karin Hellqvist and Heloisa Amaral. Impossible Situations: Concerts in the Making recounts the journey of a group of artists including performers, composers, an architect, a photographer and a sound engineer, as they explore different ways of making music together. It is an experiment in creating new compositions, investigating alternative concert formats and testing new positions for sound, visuals, performers and audiences within the concert space. While the lens of photographer Ellen Inga gives a rare glimpse from behind the scenes of contemporary music production, including the more social aspects of travelling and working as a group over long periods of time, the voices of performers Karin Hellqvist and Heloisa Amaral narrate the transformation of the artists as their roles, practices and media intertwine, and as they strive to balance equality, plurality and personal autonomy in a common space of experimentation. Now, seeing the book in my hands, I’m very pleased how it turned out.
Impossible Situations: Concerts in the Making
Hard cover
160 pages
Offset printing
24 x 27 cm
Photography by Ellen Inga Hannesdóttir, texts by Karin Hellqvist and Heloisa Amaral with a contibution by Tim Rutherford-Johnson.
First edition of 150 copies
ISBN 978-91-984059-5-8
For orders and further information, see the website of duo Hellqvist/Amaral.
