teamLab Island Dance! Art Museum and Learn & Play! Future Park in Sapporo Factory | 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.

글자마다 각자의 세계가 있다. 사람들이 글자에 손을 대면, 그 글자만의 세계가 나타나며, 이들이 서로 영향을 주고 받으며 하나의 세계를 만들어 간다. 비나 눈, 꽃들은 바람의 영향을 받으며, 새들은 나무에 앉고, 나비는 꽃을 찾아 날아든다.다른 작품이 글자에 닿아도 그 글자만의 세계가 나타난다. 사람들에 의해 생겨난 세계가 또 다른 사람들이나 다른 작품에 의해 생겨난 세계와 영향을 주고 받으며 새로운 그림을 만들어 간다.지금 이 순간에 나타난 모습은 두 번 다시는 경험할 수 없다.
작품은 때때로 아주 멀리까지 퍼져나가기도 한다.

징검다리 놀이(※1)의 코스를 자유롭게 만들 수 있습니다.다른 참가자를 위해 어떤 코스가 재미있을지, 난이도는 어느 정도가 좋을지 생각하며 창의력을 발휘해 코스를 만들어보세요. 서로가 만든 세계를 실제로 체험하며 규칙을 스스로 만들어보고, 발견할 수 있습니다. 
※1 : 징검다리 놀이○△□ 위를 뛰어다니며 노는 옛 사방치기 놀이의 디지털 버전입니다.물에 떠있는 ○△□ 위를 뛰어다니면 소리가 나면서 지나간 길을 따라 공간이 변화합니다.같은 모양을 연속으로 밟으면 크고 작은 ○△□ 모양들이 터져 나옵니다. 같은 색의 징검다리를 연속해서 밟으면 같은 색깔이 수면 위로 퍼져나갑니다.