teras is a film and performance piece made for the project All in: Bodied, a love letter to the female-identifying body in motion curated by Bryony Stone. The project included a movement performance by Grace Nicol and collaboration with Designer Sinéad O’Dwyer who made wearable silicone sculptures for the performance.
Between Monsters Goddesses and Cyborgs, Rosi Braidotti, describes The mermaid, in her interspecies morphology, as teras – a word from Greek that encompasses both marvel and monster, prodigy and demon, sacred and profane. She has theorised that the otherness of the ‘organic monster’ such as the mermaid, a human/animal hybrid that is positioned in the liminal, the in-between zone. invoked in the discourses of racism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and other exclusionary schema that seek to segregate undesirables from what allegedly constitutes the ‘pure’ human.
teras, all in bodied, curated by Bryony Stone, Mellissa Gallery, London, 2018