In the context of Puerto Rico’s complex political reality where its colonial status not only continues to be unresolved but becomes more entangled in its cultural tensions with the US, I examine the transdisciplinary performative work of solo performer, writer, dancer, video producer, cultural activist, and provocateur Teresa Hernández and the ways she portrays the world around her. Mimeologías (an allusion to the “science” of gnats and mosquitoes) confronts Puerto Rico’s colonial status, class struggles, racism, environmental destruction, machismo and sexism, through the artists’ understanding of the body—physical, political, social, and artistic—that performs her confrontations with these blights. Hernández’ use of parody, of the precarious and the uncomfortable through the characterization of a minuscule creature that can barely be seen but disturbs one’s existence in a Puerto Rico where women are faced with the ghosts of family, sexuality, and individual power, denounces chaos, crisis and catastrophe through theatrical creation.