Fungal Century Beauty

Set in 2074 amid intensifying global climate catastrophes, "Fungal Century Beauty" manifests as a futuristic cosmetic product launch that interrogates the evolving symbiosis between human bodies and their environment. This speculative design project, developed in collaboration with climate scientists from Academia Sinica, constructs an evidence-based scenario of 2074 through rigorous climate modeling while expanding into artistic imagination. The installation transforms the exhibition space into an avant-garde beauty product launch event, addressing anxieties about appearance and skin vulnerability in an extreme climate future. Through the presentation of fungal-based beauty treatments and products, the work examines how the cosmetic industry might adapt to climate-induced skin crises while critiquing contemporary beauty standards and obsessions. Visitors become active participants rather than passive observers, assuming roles as journalists or scientists within this liminal space between reality and speculation. They physically engage with fungal treatment prototypes and biotechnology beauty products, contemplating future skincare paradigms and the intersection of technology and biological innovation. The artist performs as a brand ambassador, orchestrating improvisational dialogues with the audience through product demonstrations. This theatrical element employs hyperbole and humor to illuminate bodily vulnerabilities in extreme climate conditions while reflecting on the evolution of consumer culture and the beauty industry. "Fungal Century Beauty" translates macro-level climate crisis into intimate bodily experiences, personalizing abstract environmental issues through an innovative cross-disciplinary approach spanning design, technology, and ecology. The work challenges traditional performance art boundaries while creating an immersive space that reveals future corporeal challenges.