By recognizing the human as a microbial ecosystem, this project reimagines approaches to engaging with materials and bodies through a symbiotic perspective—integrating it into modes of living, creating, and relating. At its core, the project investigates visual practices of giving body to the imaginative, and the ritualistic performativity of the everyday as ways of reinventing close, intimate relationships with bodies that are multiple, heterogeneous and infectious to normativity and individualism.

Responding to the ecological and sociopolitical consequences of disrupted human–other-than-human relations—which manifest in environmental crises and systemic violence—this project seeks to temporarily suspend reductive boundaries, understanding community and human body as multiple, multispecies sites.