METHEOR

The artistic collective Metheor was created by Ani Vaseva and Boyan Manchev in 2008. They were joined two years later by the actor Leonid Yovchev. Over the past decade, Metheor’s original trio has expanded to include Katrin Metodieva – an actress, graphic designer and ceramic artist – and the artist and inventor Stefan Donchev.
Since its foundation in 2008, Metheor has realised over 20 theatre projects, three films, several exhibitions and a number of educational, theoretical and critical projects.
In 2016, Metheor also launched its own publishing series, including 35 books in Bulgarian, English, German and French.
Metheor experiments with theatrical, artistic and theoretical forms, establishing the radical poetics of disorganisation.

We believe the power of thought needs courage and intransigence, as well as will to form: the will to experiment with forms, unconstrained by dominant symbolic orders, setting the experience of the world ablaze with wonder and adventurous quest for freedom. As the name of the group suggests — with the enigmatic supplement of a central ‘h’ — Metheor’s harbinger (either angel, or demon) is the shining and ephemeral body of the meteor: unforeseen, unpredictable, obscure and ominous, yet wondrous body. A body that may chance upon the earth, or simply and most likely blaze across the sky, leaving nothing behind but a beautiful trace. We stand beyond the sublime apocalyptic imagination, we aim not at the global shock value of the ultimate catastrophe. Yet, we do imagine colours out of space, unseen territories and unimaginable forms that might emerge from a sudden blaze.