teamLab: Digitized Fukuoka Castle Ruins

PAST EXHIBITION

Nov 29, 2019 - Feb 23, 2020Maizuru Park, Fukuoka Castle Ruins, Fukuoka

PAST EXHIBITION

Nov 29, 2019 - Feb 23, 2020Maizuru Park, Fukuoka Castle Ruins, Fukuoka

teamLab: Digitized Fukuoka Castle Ruins
Built over a period of seven years from 1601, Fukuoka Castle is the largest castle in Kyushu. Often referred to as the Stone Castle, its center the Honmaru, Ninomaru and Sannomaru palaces were made up entirely of stone walls. The beautiful four layers of stone walls make this vast site a magnificent national historic treasure. 

This exhibition is a part of teamLab’s Digitized City art project. The concept behind the project is that non-material digital technology can turn a city into art without physically altering it.

In teamLab: Digitized Fukuoka Castle Ruins, the heart of the Fukuoka Castle ruins, with its beautiful stone walls that span 20,000 square meters, will be transformed into a art space of interactive light that changes according to the presence of people.

ARTWORKS

Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives in the Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Tower Ruins

Flowers grow from the bodies of animals that inhabit the 60m long, 10m high stone walls of Fukuoka Castle ruins.The flowers bud, bloom, scatter and fade away in a continuous cycle.When people move close to the animals the flowers scatter. Once all of the flowers have scattered the animals disappear.

Autonomous Resonating Life and Resonating Trees

The resisting and resonating ovoids placed amongst the trees shine. The light of the ovoids and the light of the trees are autonomous: they shine brightly and then fade slowly, as though they are breathing.

When an ovoid is pushed, the color of the light it emits changes and a tone unique to that color echoes out. The light that originated from that ovoid resonates out to other ovoids and trees nearby. The tone resonates out continuously in the same way as the light, spreading throughout the ovoids and trees.

If a wave of light comes from the other side, it signifies the presence of people there. People gain a heightened sense of awareness of the existence of other people in the same space.

Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life

The densely packed, standing ovoids of light are autonomous. When an ovoid is pushed over by people moving through or blown down by the wind, it rises back up as the color of its light changes and emits a tone specific to that color. The surrounding ovoids respond one after another, continuously changing to the same color and emitting the same tone.

When the wind is not blowing and the people nearby are not interacting with the ovoids, their lights begin to blink slowly.

Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well in the Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Tower Ruins

Built in 1607, Fukuoka Castle is also known as the Stone Castle. This installation artwork makes use of the stone walls of the great castle tower ruins. 
Yatagarasu (three-legged crows from Japanese mythology) are rendered in light, as they fly around the space, they leave trails of light in their paths and create spatial calligraphy. The crows chase one another and in turn become chased themselves. When the chased crows crash into one another, they scatter, turning into flowers. 
The light that draws the crows is black, meaning there is no light, thus making it indistinguishable from the shadows of the stone walls that have been weathered over the past several hundred years. The crows merge with the shadows of the stone wall as they fly.

Reversible Rotation in the Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Ruins

Built in 1607, Fukuoka Castle is also known as the Stone Castle. This installation artwork makes use of the stone walls of the castle.

The light that draws the calligraphy is black, meaning there is no light, thus making it indistinguishable from the shadows of the stone walls that have been weathered over the past several hundred years. The writing merges with the shadows of the stone wall, and the Spatial Calligraphy is continuously written on the stone wall.

The Spatial Calligraphy rotates in the artwork space, every aspect rotating in the same direction. But because of the special characteristics of Ultrasubjective Space, it can appear to be rotating clockwise or counterclockwise.

Spatial Calligraphy is calligraphy drawn in space, a form of calligraphy that teamLab has been exploring since it was founded. The artwork reconstructs calligraphy in three dimensional space to express the depth, speed and power of the brush stroke, and that calligraphy is then flattened using the logical structure of space that teamLab calls Ultrasubjective Space. The calligraphy shifts between two and three dimensions.

Breathing Resonating Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Ruins

Built in 1607, Fukuoka Castle is also known as the Stone Castle. Its stone walls glow across the whole 630 meters.
The light of the walls is autonomous, it shines brightly and then fades, as if breathing slowly.

The light of the walls joins together with the Resonating Tree and Autonomous Resonating Life in the Honmaru ruins area, glowing brightly and producing a colour tone that resonates out.

Sketch Kuroda Kanbei

Draw Kuro Kanbei and the historical figures and see them walk around and dance. 
On paper, draw Kuroda Kanbei and the historical figures related to him (Kuroda Kanbei, Teruhime, Kuroda Nagamasa, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi(Hashiba) Hideyoshi, Takenaka Hanbei, Ishida Mitsunari, and Tachibana Ginchiyo). Then, watch the drawings come to life and walk around the park in front of you.
Touch the historical figures, and they will begin to speak.

MAP

Enlarge

1
Breathing Resonating Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Ruins
2
Autonomous Resonating Life and Resonating Trees
3
Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life
4
Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well in the Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Tower Ruins
5
Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives in the Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Tower Ruins
6
Sketch Kuroda Kanbei
7
Reversible Rotation in the Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Ruins

1
Breathing Resonating Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Ruins
2
Autonomous Resonating Life and Resonating Trees
3
Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life
4
Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well in the Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Tower Ruins
5
Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives in the Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Tower Ruins
6
Sketch Kuroda Kanbei
7
Reversible Rotation in the Stone Wall - Fukuoka Castle Ruins

VISIT US

Venue Details

teamLab: Digitized Fukuoka Castle Ruins 2019-2020

Term

Nov 29, 2019 - Feb 23, 2020

Hours

Nov 29, 2019 - Feb 2, 2020 18:00 - 22:00
Feb 3, 2020 - Feb 23, 2020 18:30 - 22:00
*Last Entry 21:30

Closed

open every day

Ticket

Sold at Ticket Pia and Seven Eleven
Same Day Tickets P Code: 992-562
*Tickets also available onsite during exhibition term.

ACCESS

Address

Maizuru Park, Fukuoka Castle Ruins (Jonai, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka )

By Public transportation

By Fukuoka City Subway
8 min walk from “Akasaka Station” or “Ohori Koen Station”

By Nishitetsu Bus:
5 - 8 min walk from “Fukuoka-jo Korokan-mae”, “Fukuoka-shi Bijutsukan Higashi-guchi” or “Otemon & Heiwadai Rikujo Kyogijo-iriguchi” stop
10 min walk from “Akasaka 3-chome” stop

Production Committee’s Office (at West Japan Newspaper Event Services)

092-711-5528 (10:00 - 17:00 weekday only)
*except Dec 28 - Jan 5

Notes

・The organizers are not responsible for any injury, loss, or damage to personal items.

・Please be careful on the stairs or in spaces with uneven footing. The organizers are not responsible for any accidents that occur in the venue.

・Please note that there are areas that are inaccessible to guests with disabilities using wheelchairs, guests using strollers, etc.
Accessible artworks include; Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life, Resonating Tree and Autonomous Resonating Life, Breathing Resonating Stone Wall, Reversible Rotation in the Stone Wall

・Be prepared to take your trash home for disposal and recycling.

・All parks and natural areas are strictly smoke and tobacco-free.

・Visitors who come to the event drunk or otherwise pose a danger to themselves or others will be asked to leave.

・The exhibition may be closed due to severe weather.

・No pets are allowed at this event. We will refuse admission of pets excluding service dog.

・Please be considerate of other guests when using equipment such as monopods, tripods, selfie stick, etc.
Staff may ask you to refrain from using such equipment in certain cases.

・By entering this exhibition, you consent to having your image captured by official photographers and videographers. The resulting materials, including still photographs, video, and audio recordings may be used by the organizers or local promotional entities without restriction or financial compensation in news materials, promotional materials, on the web, and other properties.

NEWS

Featured on YAHOO!JAPAN　ニュース, Nov 28, 2019

福岡城跡にデジタルアート　チームラボ「光の祭」

夜の城跡をデジタルアートで幻想的に彩る「チームラボ　福岡城跡　光の祭」（西日本新聞社など主催）が29日、福岡市中央区城内の福岡城跡で開幕する。 (本文抜粋)

ARTIST

teamLab

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.

teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;  Amos Rex, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; and Asia Society Museum, New York, among others.

teamlab.art

Biographical Documents

teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art.

Organizers

teamLab: Digitized Fukuoka Castle Ruins 2019-2020 Production Committee