Folding Screens, Unfolding Stories | teamLab

작품

The World of Irreversible Change

This work is both somewhere in time and here and now.
The world of the artwork exists within the same flow of time as the real world. Morning arrives in the artwork with the sunrise in the real world, and when the sun sets, evening begins. If it rains in the real world of the work’s location, it rains in the world of the artwork, and the flora changes every day with each passing season.
The people’s lives also change continuously depending on the time of day and weather of the real world. Festivals and events are held with the seasons, and as various stories are added day by day, the lives of people continue.
The actions of viewers influence the world of the artwork. The people in the artwork respond when a viewer touches them. If the interaction is limited, however, they eventually return to their daily lives. But if a viewer continues to touch people in the artwork, fights break out amongst those who are near to each other. The fighting escalates into deaths, eventually spreading throughout the city, which becomes engulfed in flames. The flames last for over a year, and as the city burns to the ground, the people in the artwork eventually die out.
Once the world begins to burn, the world from before can never be seen again. The actions of viewers do not just cause a temporary reaction; it becomes the history of the world of the artwork, and continues to remain as an irreversible result. The viewers themselves are also those who cause this outcome.
In the ruined city where not a single person remains, the sun rises and sets with the time of the real world. As time passes, after a few months, new flora begin to grow in the burnt ruins of the city. Flowers and plants grow, bloom, and scatter repeatedly, changing daily within the real passage of time. In spring, the flowers and plants grow deeply, flowers bloom in profusion, and birds sing. As the seasonal changes of the flora repeats itself, the world continues.
Even if human activity ends, time does not stop. The seasons turn, the flora are born, and the world continues to change.
The viewers, as the cause of history, continue to live with that outcome.

teamLab에 대해

아트 컬렉티브. 2001년 부터 활동을 시작했다. 예술, 과학, 테크놀로지, 그리고 자연계의 교차점을 학제적 접근으로 모색하고 있는 국제적인 학술적 집단. 아티스트, 프로그래머, 엔지니어, CG 애니메이터, 수학자, 건축가 등 다양한 분야의 전문가들로 구성되어 있다.
 
teamLab은 우리에게 익숙한 모든 경계에 대해 질문한다. 인간은 각자를 둘러싼 바깥 세상을 감각 기관으로 인지해 스스로와 분리하고 낱낱을 경계지어 독립체로 구분하려 한다. 현대 문명은 그런 방식으로 세계를 이해해 왔다. teamLab은 예술을 통해 감각을 확장하고 개인과 세계의 경계, 시간의 연속성에 대한 인지의 경계를 넘어설 수 있다고 믿는다. 이 세계의 모든 것은 광대한 시간 속에, 생명의 끝없는 연속 안에 가까스로, 하지만 기적적으로 존재하고 있다.

teamLab의 작품은 시드니 뉴사우스웨일스 주립 미술관, 애들레이드 사우스오스트레일리아 미술관, 샌프란시스코 아시아 미술관, 뉴욕 아시아 소사이어티, 이스탄불 보루산 현대 미술관, 멜버른 빅토리아 국립 미술관, 헬싱키 아모렉스가 영구 소장하고 있다.

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Exhibition Overview

Folding screens have always functioned as both artistic objects and immersive portals. They map stories and physical space, conceal and reveal. From the Gardner’s renowned 17th-century Tale of Genji screens to a virtual cityscape that responds to the seasons, the works in Folding Screens, Unfolding Stories transform the gallery space and transport visitors into rich, narrative worlds that defy boundaries.