teamLab: Living Digital Forest and Future Park | teamLab

The seasons co-exist and change gradually across the installation space.
Flowers blossom according to the seasons, and the places where they grow gradually change.

The flowers bud, grow, and blossom before they begin to wither and their petals eventually scatter, repeating the cycle of life and death in perpetuity. If a person stays still, the flowers surrounding them grow and bloom more abundantly than usual, but if people touch or step on the flowers, they shed their petals, wither, and die all at once. Sometimes the flowers cross the boundaries of other works and bloom in other spaces, but scatter or die due to the influence of other works.

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.

In spring in the Kunisaki Peninsula, there are many cherry blossoms in the mountains and canola blossoms at their base. A visit to this region led teamLab to wonder how much of these flowers were planted by people and how much of them were native to the environment. It was a place of great serenity and contentment. The expansive body of flowers is an ecosystem influenced by human intervention, and the boundary between the work of nature and the work of humans is unclear. Rather than nature and humans being in conflict, a healthy ecosystem is one that includes people. In the past, people understood that they could not grasp nature in its entirety, and that it is not possible to control nature. People lived more closely aligned to the rule of nature, which perhaps created a comfortable natural environment. We believe that these valleys hold faint traces of this premodern relationship with nature that once existed, and we hope to explore a form of human intervention based on the premise that nature cannot be controlled.

Fleeting Flower Series. Everything exists on a fragile continuity of life that knows no boundaries and has continued for a long, long time. The image of a peacock appears in peony flowers that are born and blossom. In time the flowers scatter. At the moment each flower scatters that part of the peacock scatters.

Fleeting Flower Series. Everything exists on a fragile continuity of life that knows no boundaries and has continued for a long, long time. The image of an elephant appears in lotus flowers that are born and blossom. In time the flowers scatter. At the moment each flower scatters that part of the elephant scatters.

This work is to be viewed from a position close to the entrance of the space.
The artwork begins when Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well: Flying Beyond Borders enters the Cosmic Void. When it ends, the crows leave the space.
If you stand at the position close to the entrance, the boundary between the wall and the floor disappears and the real world dissolves, making the lines drawn by the trails of the crows appear three-dimensional. Eventually the body becomes immersed in the world of the artwork, and the boundary between the artwork and viewer dissolves as well.
Flocks of mythical crows (Yatagarasu) rendered in light fly around the space leaving trails in their wake and forming Spatial Calligraphy. The chasing crows are eventually chased themselves, and form flowers when they crash into each other, scattering their petals. Although the crows usually avoid crashing into people in the space, when they happen to do so, they similarly form flowers, scattering their petals.

In the background, cherry blossoms bloom and scatter, the cycle of life repeats. From the center of the background a circle is born which increases in size with a constant rhythm. Depending on the circle the light and darkness of the background world changes.

이 수족관에 여러분이 그린 물고기들이 헤엄칩니다.

종이에 자유롭게 물고기를 그려주세요. 그림을 그리면 눈앞에 펼쳐진 거대한 수족관에 여러분이 그린 물고기들이 나타나 함께 헤엄치기 시작합니다.
물고기들은 만질 수도 있습니다. 물고기를 만지면 도망가고, 먹이 주머니를 만지면 물고기에게 먹이를 줄 수도 있습니다.

이 테이블에는 꼬마 요정들이 살고 있다.

테이블 속을 뛰어다니는 꼬마 요정들은 우리를 인식하지 못한다.
하지만 테이블 위에 손이나 물건을 올려두면, 꼬마 요정들이 물건을 인식하고 뛰어오른다.
올려두는 물건의 모양에 따라 꼬마 요정들이 미끄러지거나 점프하거나 기어오른다.
물건을 많이 올려두면 꼬마 요정들이 무척 기뻐하며 뛰어다.

물에 떠있는 ○△□ 위를 한쪽 발로 뛰어다니며 놀 수 있는 땅따먹기 놀이입니다.
같은 모양의 ○△□를 연속해서 밟으면 물고기, 나비, 새가 태어납니다. 연속해서 밟는 횟수가 많아질수록 많이 태어납니다.
또, 같은 색의 ○△□를 연속해서 밟으면 색깔이 퍼져나갑니다.
벽까지 퍼져있는 물고기, 나비, 새를 만지면 입자가 되어 세계에 녹아듭니다.