Transcending Boundaries

2015

Removing the Boundaries Between Artworks

The world is a complex continuum: nothing can exist independently, and there are no boundaries. However, human beings cannot comprehend this continuity. When people perceive the world, they do so by separating it into distinct parts through things like language and logic. People continue to divide the world every time they perceive it, creating boundaries in their consciousness that do not actually exist.
As people perceive the world by separating it into distinct parts, they feel as though these boundaries have always existed.

By eliminating the boundaries between artworks, the works can communicate with one another, influence each other and intermingle, while remaining independent. The artworks are continuous and without boundaries.

Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders

teamLab, 2015-, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless

When no one is in the Butterfly House space, it is completely dark and nothing exists. When people enter the Butterfly House space, butterflies emerge from their bodies, and flutter from their feet to the floor. If people touch the butterflies they scatter.

The butterflies fly into the displays or out of the space, transcend the boundaries of other works, and fly

into the other artworks. Then, when they enter another space they continue as a new artwork. The butterflies fly seamlessly between other works, blurring the boundaries between them.

In the Borderless World, the butterflies are all created solely by the presence of people in the Butterfly House. If the number of butterflies that die when people touch them is more than the number people create, this artwork will cease to exist.

When this artwork disappears, butterflies no longer enter the other spaces, and the artworks of butterflies in each space will no longer appear.

Transcending Boundaries

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