Marcher, marcher, marcher : rechercher, dévier, réunir – Personnes et animaux dansants au-delà des frontières / Walk, Walk, Walk: Search, Deviate, Reunite

teamLab, 2018, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi, Voices: Yutaka Fukuoka, Yumiko Tanaka

Marcher, marcher, marcher : rechercher, dévier, réunir – Personnes et animaux dansants au-delà des frontières / Walk, Walk, Walk: Search, Deviate, Reunite

teamLab, 2018, Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi, Voices: Yutaka Fukuoka, Yumiko Tanaka

This artwork is based on Flowers are Crimson from 2004.

The artwork starts when the figures from Peace can be Realized Even without Order leave their exhibition space. The figures cross the boundaries of other works, and walk around freely as they influence the artwork spaces that they enter.

The group of anonymous and diverse figures keep walking, meaning that the artwork is constantly moving. When people touch the figures, they react, sometimes stop, sometimes change directions and choose a different path.

Viewers will also make choices, as they watch and follow the figures.

Hoho kore dojo” is a Zen expression on how every step is a place to learn. The figures in the artwork walk endlessly while confronting new situations. When people walk after the figures, they will also confront new situations or new characters along their way.

The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the work in real time. The interaction between people and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork, so previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur. The picture at this moment can never be seen again.