Sensing the good vibes: Audience vocal engagement with the oral microbiota

This immersive performance explores speech as a biological environment for oral microbiota, merging art and science to promote ecological awareness. Using scientific data, recursive echo, and tactile feedback, it encourages visitors to engage directly with microbial processes through vocalizations and vibrations, blurring boundaries between human and non-human elements. Here an art-science collaboration turns laboratory research into a public, sensory experience that supports reflection on our shared biological environments, fostering sensory, evocative, and scientific engagement with microbiome ecology.