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TERA is an experiment in collaborative thinking about the encounters between technology, ecology, and religion.
It brings together scholars and artists working across Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean
to creatively reimagine these themes as expressed in scholarship, art, and design.
It brings together scholars and artists working across Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean
to creatively reimagine these themes as expressed in scholarship, art, and design.
meet our team
our collaborative method
TERA is a contemporary subversion of nineteenth-century naturalist clubs and cabinets of curiosities. Presenting their collections of artifacts and ideas to each other, European and Euro-American men set out to categorize the world's natural and human phenomena, including sacred items. In these spaces of elite knowledge making, technology, ecology, and religion collided.
We inherit from these clubs an awareness of our intimacy with others: as scholars and artists, we never think alone. At the same time, we subvert their ongoing legacy through our own set of meetings.
We, too, are collectors of natural and human-made artifacts. Each month, we bring our artifacts -- it could be an online performance, an academic text, a sonic recording, or anything else -- to the digital table. Rather than impose a set of classificatory norms, our goal is to allow the artifacts, through our encounters with them and with each other, to spark new forms of collective thinking.
We, too, are collectors of natural and human-made artifacts. Each month, we bring our artifacts -- it could be an online performance, an academic text, a sonic recording, or anything else -- to the digital table. Rather than impose a set of classificatory norms, our goal is to allow the artifacts, through our encounters with them and with each other, to spark new forms of collective thinking.
TERA's monthly meetings are running from January 2022 to November 2022. A workshop, website, and publications will follow in 2023. Other goals are in flux as we see where this process leads us. If you are interested in connecting, don't hesitate to get in touch.
