Panic! Plastics seep into our food, bodies, bloodstreams, and unborn children. Glaciers and sea ice retreat faster than climate models can keep up. In this moment of cascading ecological collapse, how can we respond not just with fear, but with embodied imagination? This exhibition titled The Climate Tasting Menu, invites viewers to metabolize crisis—literally and metaphorically—through absurd futures, gut-level humor, sensory experiences, and playful interventions.
In Consume Our Consumption, audiences are served edible bioplastics in a performance that satirizes consumerism and greenwashing. A speculative pill, “Plascetamol,” made from the gut bacteria of plastic-degrading superworms, imagines a future where humans adapt to digest plastic. Pollution becomes food, and waste becomes sustenance.
In CryoScapes, ice becomes both canvas and collaborator. A custom-built 3D ice printer and treated surfaces allow freezing water to form evolving landscapes—lunar, glacial, microbial. A macro camera captures these fleeting terrains in real time, while AI transforms them into Haiku-inspired poems. As the work travels, it co-creates with the climate of each city it visits.
Together, these works invite us to chew on crisis, melt old narratives, and imagine new ecologies from the ruins of the Anthropocene.
