Artist Dialogue: Nils Bech & Eivind Seljeseth

Duration: 45 minutes
Language: Norwegian

Artist Dialogue is a conversation concept giving  insight into oeuvres and creative practices. Two artists from different or neighbouring fields meet in an open and honest conversation. It is the artists themselves who ask each other questions –  touching on practice, driving forces, ambitions, interests, experiences, doubts, choices and motives.

By allowing the artists to meet as equal dialogue partners, the audience is invited into a conversation that is both personal and professional, and which often touches on topics that are rarely raised in more traditional panel discussions or interviews.

Bios:

Nils Bech is one of Norway's foremost vocalists and performance artists, especially known for his conceptual and unique live shows. Bech has done performance concerts in Norway and abroad, both in clubs and art galleries, but also at music festivals such as Ultima, Øyafestivalen, Hovefestivalen and Roskilde. He has performed his own concerts at the Norwegian National Opera and at contemporary art exhibitions and art museums such as the National Museum, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Kode Museum in Bergen, the Venice Biennale, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. Bech has also been an actor and singer in several productions at the National Theatre. He has been nominated for both the Spellemann Prize and the Edvard Prize. Musically, he has been inspired by both synthpop and art music. 

Eivind Seljeseth is a Norwegian choreographer and dancer based in Oslo. He is educated at the School of Contemporary Dance (now the Academy of Dance Arts) and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (MA in Choreography). Relationships between architecture, bodies and conventions, as well as subjective perceptions of reality, have been recurring areas of interest in Seljeseth's work.