Coexistence – Alexander Meagher and Jesse Vivante

Doors at 6.30pm
Performance at 7pm
Artists in conversation: 8pm (Thursday only)

Coexistence is an intersection of sound, body, and space.

Percussion and sound experimentalists Jesse Vivante and Alexander Meagher journey through emotion, presenting motifs, rhythms, and histories of thought shaped by memory, sensation, and time. Sound becomes movement. Movement becomes friction. Two streams of consciousness unfolding in parallel, sometimes converging, sometimes resisting, sometimes dissolving into one another.

The work traces the inner and outer terrains of internal emotion, endurance, discovery, rupture, and repair originally inspired by their individual works Omni-Omni and A Brilliant Seagull. As the performers encounter one another, boundaries blur and identities are reflected, challenged, fractured, and re-formed. Presence becomes negotiation. Listening becomes an act of exposure. What happens when two worlds occupy the same moment? What is understood? What is lost? What remains unresolved?

An exploration into understanding and accepting, Coexistence mirrors our own internal processes of self-discovery. From the understanding of environment to the acceptance of oneself. Where our own stories intersect and the beauty of shared experience is understood.

Presented at Next Wave, in partnership with Speak Percussion.

About the artists

Alexander Meagher is a versatile and dynamic percussionist from Melbourne/Naarm who enjoys the multifaceted nature of percussion and enjoys learning about music genres and instruments from throughout history and from around the world. He is passionate about narrative-focused, energetic, and transportive performances and has performed with orchestras, music theatre, and festivals both nationally and internationally.

Jesse Vivante is a percussionist, sound designer, and performer originally hailing from Boorloo (Perth). His work explores new approaches to artistic practice through the interplay between contemporary percussion, installation, and movement, where sound and gesture act as mutual catalysts to perpetuate one another. By shifting percussion beyond its sonic function and into choreographic space, and by treating movement as a generative sonic force, he looks to cultivates a hybrid form of work that unifies the boundaries between movement and sound.

speakpercussion.com/about/bespoke-artists

This performance was originally scheduled to also take place on Saturday 14 February in addition to Thursday 12 and Friday 12 February.

Next Wave apologises for any inconvenience caused in the alteration of the schedule. We hope you can join us for another performance :)

Next Wave
270 Sydney Road, Bulleke-bek (Brunswick)
nextwave.org.au

Accessibility
Brunswick Mechanics Institute is a step-free venue with accessible bathrooms. 

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