teamLab: Impermanent Flowers Floating in a Continuous Sea | teamLab
AFGELOPEN TENTOONSTELLING
2022.11.11(Fri) - 2023.05.07(Sun)Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
AFGELOPEN TENTOONSTELLING
2022.11.11(Fri) - 2023.05.07(Sun)Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
teamLab: Impermanent Flowers Floating in a Continuous Sea
All oceans are connected to each other, and so are all the waves of the world.
In classical East Asian art, waves are often expressed using a combination of lines. These waves created by lines allow us to realize that each wave is one part of a larger flow, and conveys life as though the waves are a living entity.
When the waves rise, we can feel a powerful breath of life, as though life is blooming. It seems that each wave has a life of its own. But when the waves collapse and disappear, we realize, with a sense of fragility, that they were a part of the ocean. And that ocean is connected to all of the other oceans. In other words, all of the waves in the world are connected to each other.
The waves seem alive because life is like a rising wave. It is a miraculous phenomenon that continuously emerges from a single, continuous ocean.
The artwork space consists of one continuous and connected wave, with neither beginning nor end. The exterior of this perceived mass is also its interior, and the external and internal are one.
Inside the mass of waves, ever-blossoming flowers continually grow and wither in a repeating and ever-changing cycle of life and death. The waves and flowers do not form a fixed viewpoint, which allows people to move freely around the space. The wall on which the work is projected does not become a boundary between people and the work, and the space filled with flowers is continuous with the space of the people experiencing the work.
The flame artwork duplicates and distributes itself among people, and once the artwork is in the hands of people, it is further actively distributed. The flame will exist on people’s networks, transforming into decentralized, Distributed Art. When the flame exists on a network, it will continue to exist even if the original flame disappears.
Through the experience of transcending the boundaries between the body and the artwork, people redefine their perception of the boundaries between the self and the world, and thereby recognize the continuity between humans and the world.
In classical East Asian art, waves are often expressed using a combination of lines. These waves created by lines allow us to realize that each wave is one part of a larger flow, and conveys life as though the waves are a living entity.
When the waves rise, we can feel a powerful breath of life, as though life is blooming. It seems that each wave has a life of its own. But when the waves collapse and disappear, we realize, with a sense of fragility, that they were a part of the ocean. And that ocean is connected to all of the other oceans. In other words, all of the waves in the world are connected to each other.
The waves seem alive because life is like a rising wave. It is a miraculous phenomenon that continuously emerges from a single, continuous ocean.
The artwork space consists of one continuous and connected wave, with neither beginning nor end. The exterior of this perceived mass is also its interior, and the external and internal are one.
Inside the mass of waves, ever-blossoming flowers continually grow and wither in a repeating and ever-changing cycle of life and death. The waves and flowers do not form a fixed viewpoint, which allows people to move freely around the space. The wall on which the work is projected does not become a boundary between people and the work, and the space filled with flowers is continuous with the space of the people experiencing the work.
The flame artwork duplicates and distributes itself among people, and once the artwork is in the hands of people, it is further actively distributed. The flame will exist on people’s networks, transforming into decentralized, Distributed Art. When the flame exists on a network, it will continue to exist even if the original flame disappears.
Through the experience of transcending the boundaries between the body and the artwork, people redefine their perception of the boundaries between the self and the world, and thereby recognize the continuity between humans and the world.
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Venue Details
teamLab: Impermanent Flowers Floating in a Continuous Sea
Looptijd
2022.11.11(Fri) - 2023.05.07(Sun)
Openingstijden
Tuesday
10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 - 18:00
Thursday
10:00 - 20:00
Friday - Sunday
10:00 - 18:00
* Last admissions up to half an hour before the closing time.
* The museum closes 3 hours earlier on: December 23 and February 23
Sluitingsdagen
Mondays and National Holidays
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Route
Adres
Kumu Art Museum
Great Hall
A. Weizenbergi 34, 10127 Tallinn
Great Hall
A. Weizenbergi 34, 10127 Tallinn
Adres in lokale taal:
Kumu kunstimuuseum
Suur saal
Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1
10127 Tallinn
Suur saal
Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1
10127 Tallinn
By Tram
Line no. 1: Kopli – Balti jaam – Hobujaama – Kadriorg
Line no. 3: Tondi – Vabaduse väljak – Hobujaama – Kadriorg
From the final stop, “Kadriorg”, walk to the end of Weizenbergi Street (approx. 10 min)
By Bus
Lines no. 31, 67 and 68: Estonia – Kivisilla – Kumu
Take the stairs near the stop and turn to the right at the top.
Lines no. 1a, 8, 29, 34a, 35, 38, 44 and 51 from the bus terminal at Viru Shopping Centre to the stop “J. Poska”
Line no. 5: Männiku – Vabaduse väljak – Viru – J. Poska
Line no. 39: Veerenni – Autobussijaam – Kumu (next to the museum)
ARTIEST
teamLab
teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.
In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.
teamLab exhibitions have been held in cities worldwide, including New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Melbourne among others. teamLab museums and large-scale permanent exhibitions include teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets in Tokyo, teamLab Borderless Shanghai, and teamLab SuperNature Macao, with more to open in cities including Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Hamburg, Jeddah, and Utrecht.
teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Asia Society Museum, New York; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Amos Rex, Helsinki.
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Biographical Documents
teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art.