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teamLab: Digitized Kairakuen Garden

Kairakuen Garden was created at the end of the Edo Period (1842), incorporating the surrounding scenery into its composition. The garden was designated as a Special Place of Scenic Beauty and is considered to be one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan alongside Kenrokuen Garden in Kanazawa and Korakuen Garden in Okayama. In 2022, the garden will celebrate its 180th anniversary. Kairakuen Garden is home to 3,000 plum trees of around 100 varieties, and it is well known for its plum blossoms. Because of this wide variety of trees, the plum blossoms bloom over a longer period of time.

teamLab’s art project Digitized Nature explores how nature can become art. The concept of the project is that non-material digital technology can turn nature into art without harming it.

Humans cannot recognize time longer than their own lifespans. In other words, there is a boundary in our understanding of the long continuity of time.
The forms and shapes of nature have been created over many years and have been molded by the interactions between people and nature. We can perceive this long duration of time in these shapes of nature themselves. By using the shapes, we believe we can explore the boundary in our perception of the long continuity of time.

teamLab: Digitized Kairakuen Garden will transform this garden, where various types of plum trees bloom in spring, into an interactive art space that changes due to the presence of people.

OBRAS

Ever Blossoming Life Tree - Giant Taro Cedar

Flowers bloom and scatter for eternity on a giant tree (about 35m in height and 17.2m around the roots), which is said to be around 800 years old. A year’s worth of seasonal flowers from the area bloom over the course of an hour, continuously scattering and changing. Flowers are born, grow, bud, bloom, and eventually scatter, wither, and disappear. The flowers are in a continuous cycle of life and death, repeating forever.
Kairakuen Garden's giant cedar forest, created in the late Edo period (1842), changes daily with the imperceptibly slow flow of time, repeating every year. It is a space where endlessly long time accumulates. The giant cedar tree was probably here before the landscaping. The flowers that repeat the cycle of life and death have a different flow of time. Here, various space-times intersect and overlap.
Our own existence is part of this continuity of life and death, repeating endlessly, for an overwhelming length of time, for billions of years. However, it is difficult to perceive this in everyday life.
The eternal birth and death of the flowers on the giant tree that formed over an overwhelmingly long period of time and is beyond the boundaries of our cognition for long-term continuity, may allow us to realize that the existence of life itself is part of a continuous cycle of life and death.
The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the artwork in real time. As a whole, it is continuously changing, and previous visual states are never replicated. The artwork at this moment can never be seen again.

Ever Blossoming Life Tree - Fallen Jiro Cedar

Flowers bloom and scatter for eternity in the decaying cavity inside the trunk of a large tree that fell due to a strong typhoon (1964). A year’s worth of seasonal flowers from the area bloom over the course of an hour, continuously scattering and changing. Flowers are born, grow, bud, bloom, and eventually scatter, wither, and disappear. The flowers are in a continuous cycle of life and death, repeating forever.
Kairakuen Garden's giant cedar forest, created in the late Edo period (1842), changes daily with the imperceptibly slow flow of time, repeating every year. It is a space where endlessly long time accumulates. This giant cedar tree was probably here before the landscaping. After it fell, the tree’s cavity became a space where time has stopped. The flowers that repeat the cycle of life and death also have a different flow of time. Here, various space-times intersect and overlap.
Our own existence is part of this continuity of life and death, repeating endlessly for an overwhelming length of time, for billions of years. However, it is difficult to perceive this in everyday life. People are unable to perceive periods of time longer than their own lives. There is a cognitive boundary in people’s recognition of the continuity of time.
The eternal birth and death of the flowers in the hollow of the fallen tree that formed over an overwhelmingly long period of time and is beyond the boundaries of our cognition for long-term continuity, may allow us to realize that the existence of life itself is part of a continuous cycle of life and death.
The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the artwork in real time. As a whole, it is continuously changing, and previous visual states are never replicated. The artwork at this moment can never be seen again.

VISITE

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Before You Visit
* The venue is dark, has stairs and many rough paths. Please note that there are areas that are inaccessible to guests with disabilities using wheelchairs, guests using strollers, etc.
* In case of strong rain with strong wind, the exhibition will be suspended.
* To prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, we ask for your cooperation for the following:
 - Wear a mask
 - Have your temperature taken
 - Disinfect your hands
 - Register with Ibaraki's Amabie-chan (contract-tracing software)
 - Practice social distancing in the park

Regarding Same-Day Tickets
Same-day tickets will be available during the exhibition period. A limited number of tickets will be sold at the Togyokusen ticket counter from around 19:00.
If there are any changes regarding the sale of same-day tickets, an announcement will be made on this website.

Información del Lugar

teamLab: Digitized Kairakuen Garden 2022

Duración

2022.2.01(Tue) - 4.03(Sun)

Horario

18:00 - 20:30 (Last entry at 20:00)

Acceso

Lugar

Kairakuen Garden
1 Chome, Tokiwacho, Mito, Ibaraki
- There are two entrances to this exhibition: the East Gate and the Togyokusen Ticket counter. Front Gate and South Gate are closed during the exhibition period.

Dirección en idioma local:

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By Car
20 minutes from the Mito Expressway Exit 20 minutes from the South Mito Expressway Exit 20 minutes from the Ibaraki East Street Expressway Exit * Please use public transportation during the Mito Plum Blossom Festival. The parking lots and surrounding roads will be very busy.
By Train
20 minutes by bus from the JR Joban Line Mito Station (North Exit)
By Bus
3-minute walk from the Kairakuen Higashimon bus stop to the East Gate 3-minute walk from the Kairakuen Mae bus stop to the East Gate 5-minute walk from the Kairakuen bus stop to the East Gate 10-minute walk from the Sembako bus stop to the East Gate

CONTACTO

Phone number

LuckyFM Ibaraki Broadcasting System, Event division
+81-29-243-4111(Weekdays 10:00 - 17:30)

Media Inquiries

Notas

- Please note that there are areas that are inaccessible to guests with disabilities using wheelchairs, guests using strollers, etc.
- In case of strong rain with strong wind, the exhibition will be suspended.
- There are two entrances to this exhibition: the East Gate and the Togyokusen Ticket counter. Please go around the space, then return to the same gate to leave. If you leave through the other gate, you will not be able to see all of the artworks.
- Drinking, and eating are not permitted at the venue.
ARTISTA
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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 exhibitions have been held in cities worldwide, including New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Melbourne among others. teamLab museums and large-scale permanent exhibitions include teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets in Tokyo, teamLab Borderless Shanghai, and teamLab SuperNature Macao, with more to open in cities including Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Hamburg, Jeddah, and Utrecht. teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Asia Society Museum, New York; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Amos Rex, Helsinki. teamlab.art Biographical Documents teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art.

Organizadores

LuckyFM Ibaraki Broadcasting System

I am very pleased that LuckyFM Ibaraki Broadcasting System is once again organizing the exhibition teamLab: Digitized Kairakuen Garden this year at Kairakuen Garden, which is known as one of the ‘Three Great Gardens of Japan’.

We were grateful to welcome a total of 123,000 people to the garden last year, with many of them being residents of Ibaraki Prefecture. This year, we are extending the exhibition period to two months from February to March, and the Mito Plum Blossom Festival will also take place during this period. I hope that many visitors will take this opportunity to come to Kairakuen Garden and discover new fascinating aspects of it.

The situation with COVID-19 is still ongoing, so we are taking thorough measures for visitors to be able to come to the exhibition feeling reassured.

It is my hope that teamLab: Digitized Kairakuen Garden will further vitalize the local region, lead to increased tourism in the area, and bring even more liveliness into Mito, Ibaraki.

We sincerely look forward to welcoming you.

Shigenori ABE
President and CEO
LuckyFM Ibaraki Broadcasting System

Apoyo

Ibaraki Prefectural Government, Mito City, IbarakiPrefecturalTourism&Local Products Association

Special Thanks

Kirei Kirei