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MAELSTR\u00d6M<\/h2>\n

Introduction to the Spiral Panic<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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an audiovisual immersive installation by Metheor<\/p>\n

concept: Boyan Manchev and Ani Vaseva
\nvideo: Ivan Nikolov, Ani Vaseva and Boyan Manchev
\nsound: Angel Simitchiev<\/p>\n

27 and 28 October 2021, 18:30 \u2013 21:30, Structura Gallery<\/p>\n

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\u201cMaelstr\u00f6m.<\/em> Introduction to the Spiral Panic\u201d is the first event in a series by Metheor titled \u201cTheatre of the Elements\u201d. This installation has been realized by Metheor with the support of the National Culture Fund and is part of Tempus Fugit, a joint project of Goethe-Institut and Institut Fran\u00e7ais in Bulgaria within the framework of the Franco-German Cultural Fund.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s as if we\u2019ve never gotten out of the state of spiral panic<\/em>. The spiral is a paradoxical symbol \u2013 it is a figure of sustained motion, of the breaking of the tautology of the circle, of development and change as well as of destabilization, of the loss of centre and base, of giddiness, vertigo, falling into a bottomless chasm.<\/p>\n

The terrifying and fascinating image of the gigantic Maelstr\u00f6m described in Edgar Allen Poe\u2019s famous short story, \u201cA Descent into the Maelstr\u00f6m\u201d (1841), represents the spiral of the vortex at its maximum intensity. The gigantic spiral whirlpool, the vortex in which the ocean plunges into the abyss, is at once a decentering of every structure and appearance of the unimaginable monstrous structure of Chaos. In the spiral acceleration of the vortex, centripetal motion becomes indistinguishable from centrifugal motion, rising from falling, structure from chaos.<\/p>\n

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Maelstr\u00f6m: Chaos \u2013 Structure.<\/p>\n

A central image from mythology to archaic religions, from geometry to fluid dynamics and chaos theory, from parapsychology to genetics, and from pop culture to conceptual art, the spiral-vortex is one of the shared obsessions of Metheor\u2019s members. With the installation \u201cMaelstr\u00f6m\u201d, Metheor sets out to explore in an artistic and philosophical perspective the semantic and visual potential of the vortex \u2013 the maelstrom, whirlpool, whirl, swirl, tourbillon <\/em>\u2013 and respectively, of the figure of the spiral that symbolizes it.<\/div>\n

Ignoring the clich\u00e9d allegories that exploit the spiral-vortex, the installation examines the figural potential that breaks through the swirling surface despite them. It focuses on the point of refraction, of inversion of the spiral\u2019s motion \u2013 the inversion of the order of the meanings that swirl with the spiral.<\/p>\n

The vortex allows no distance: Maelstr\u00f6m wants the body of the observer.<\/p>\n

Boyan Manchev<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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