ICA MUSIC: Nils Bech - Echo

The ICA is pleased to present ECHO, a performance by Norwegian musician Nils Bech and long-term collaborator artist Ida Ekblad. The event will involve Bech performing songs from his latest album, ECHO (DFA/Fysisk Format, 2016), while interacting with new sculptural works by Ekblad. The artworks have been created to intentionally embody human qualities and act as a placeholder for the storyteller, the lover or the object. They act as a conversation partner—or as a stand-in for the person for whom the song was written—while the mirroring opens up a parallel dialogue, representing the often conflicted ways of communication that lie at the core of the album.

With support from the Office for Contemporary Art Norway and the The Royal Norwegian Embassy, London