When Microbes Dream introduces audiences to allegorical visions of biotechnology as a technology of abundance, rooted in interspecies collaboration and bespoke ecologies. With this exhibition, the artist reimagines laboratory aesthetics as bountiful, feminine, and gaudy in direct contradiction to scientific norms. Willet presents several works including live specimens in conjunction with performative sculpture, large-scale installations, and a series of digital prints.

Each artwork presents a complex vision of organisms large and small (mammals, microbes, plants, and insects) working in collaboration to present biotech processes to human audiences. This work de-prioritizes the human scientist as the dominant organism working within a robust laboratory ecology. Rather, presents the daydreams of non-human organisms living, reproducing, performing and dying within laboratory settings.

When Microbes Dream presents a feminist science-fiction where biotechnology manifests interspecies collaboration, reproduction, theatre and storytelling as a means to re-imagine our shared biotech future.

IOTA and INCUBATOR Art Lab present their 6th Bioart Kitchen Hangout, which follows Dr. Willet from her studio in Windsor, Ontario, Canada to Ectopia – Laboratório de Arte Experimental in Lisbon, Portugal. Managing international customs, high emotions, and multiple funding agencies, Willet installED a complex bioart exhibition in 7 days, in time for the annual FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science, and Technology conference. Sharing with audiences 7+ tips for successfully designing and installing a bioart exhibition under high pressure circumstances.