Spatial Dialogues | teamLab

When people approach the flowers, they scatter and die. When they approach the sand, the falling sand breaks up.
Since ancient times people have looked at falling sand to understand the concept of short periods of time, and they have seen the changes in the flowers that bloom to feel the passage of longer periods of time. The time of the falling sand, the repeated life and death of the flowers, and the time of people's bodies - all these different times intersect and overlap.
The space of the artwork is created with what teamLab refers to as Ultrasubjective Space. In contrast to spaces that are created through, or in other words cut out by, lenses and perspective, Ultrasubjective Space does not fix the viewer’s viewpoint and in turn frees the body. The wall that the flowers are seen on does not become a boundary between the viewer and the artwork, and the artwork space is continuous with the space of the viewer’s body.

바다는 모든 바다와 연결되어 있고, 이 세상의 모든 파도는 서로 연결되어 있다.

동아시아 고전 미술에서의 물결은 흔히 선의 집합으로 표현된다. 선의 집합으로 이루어진 파도는 그것들이 흐름의 일부임을 깨닫게 한다. 그리고 그 선의 집합에서 마치 파도가 살아있는 것처럼 생명을 느낄 수 있다.

실제로 파도가 칠 때 생명이 꽃피는 듯한 강한 숨결을 느끼고 파도 하나하나가 생명인 것처럼 보인다. 그러나 파도가 무너져 내렸을 때, 꽃이 지는 것과 같은 덧없음과 함께 그것이 바다의 일부였다는 것을 깨닫는다. 그리고 그 바다는 모든 바다와 연결되어 있고 곧 세상의 모든 파도는 서로 연결되어 있는 것이다.
파도가 살아있는 것처럼 보이는 것은 생명이란 힘차게 치는 파도와도 같기 때문이다. 생명은 모두 연속적으로 연결된 한 바다에서 끊임없이 연속적으로 일어나는 기적적인 현상이다.

컴퓨터상에 설정한 공간에서, 물의 입체적 움직임을 구현해 가면서 파도를 구축했다. 물은 상호 작용하는 수많은 물 입자의 연속체로 표현된다. 그 물 입자의 움직임을 따라서 공간 속에 선이 하나씩 생겨난다. 이 선들의 집합을 teamLab이 고안한 ‘초주관 공간’ 논리를 거쳐 평면화하고 있기에 렌즈나 시점에 따라 잘라낸 공간과 달리 감상자는 시각이 고정되지 않고 몸을 자유로이 할 수 있다. 그리고 파도가 보이는 벽은 우리와 작품의 경계가 되는 것이 아니라 관람자의 신체가 있는 공간과 연속된다.

The contours of life’s existence are not the surface boundary of the body, but something ambiguous that includes the environment that is continuous with it.
As long as people live, they dissipate energy and affect the environment, such as the flow of air.
In this artwork, the existence of a person is depicted through the energy dissipated by people into the world for as long as they live.

Being consists of the mind, the body, and the environment that is continuous with them.

Objects like stones and man-made creations so far have maintained a stable structure on their own. But life is different. Whereas a stone can continue to exist in a closed box, sealed off from the outside world, life would cease to exist.

Life is like a vortex created in the ocean. A vortex forms and exists in a flow of matter, and the boundaries of its existence are ambiguous.  

Although a vortex is steady, it is constantly moving and swelling like a powerful life-form. The vortex cannot maintain a stable structure on its own; rather, it is created and sustained by water that continuously flows inwards and outwards.

The same is true of life. It consumes external matter and energy as food and discharges it, sustaining its ordered structure as the energy dissipates. In other words, life does not exist by itself. It is the environment that is continuous with it that maintains the structure of life.

Life is a miraculous phenomenon that emerges from a flow in an open world. Like an ocean vortex, it is an existence with ambiguous boundaries in an infinite continuity.

To be alive is to be inseparable from the world, constantly dissipating energy into it.