Sydney Contemporary 2022 | teamLab

This work is both somewhere in time and here and now.

The world of the artwork changes with the real time of its location. 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 that grow in the artwork change 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, and the festivals and events that are celebrated change with the seasons. Various stories take place every day, and the lives of people continue eternally.

The actions of viewers influence the world of the artwork. The people in the artwork respond when a viewer touches them, but if the interaction is limited, they return to their daily lives.
If the interaction is continuous, however, fights break out amongst the people in the artwork that are near to each other, leading to deaths. The fighting spreads throughout the city, which becomes engulfed in flames that last for over a year. As the city burns to the ground, the people in the artwork eventually die out.

In the ruined city where not a single person remains, the seasons still pass and the sun rises and sets with the time of the real world. After a few months, new flora begin to grow in the burnt ruins of the city.
The flora grow, bloom, and scatter repeatedly, changing daily with the real passage of time. The flowers and plants grow deeply over the course of a long period, and the flowers change throughout every year, continuing in perpetuity.

Once the world of this artwork begins to burn, the world from before can never be returned to.
The people who interact with the artwork cause this outcome.

在一個小時的時間裡，一整年的花朵花開花落，持續著變化。

花兒會隨著，誕生、盛開，隨後散落、枯萎、死去。不斷延續著誕生與死滅的循環。人們在作品前走動時，花朵會一起凋零，而停留不動時，花朵會持續綻放並蔓延開來。

作品不是將預先制作好的影像進行放映，而是通過電腦程序實時繪制而成的。整體來說，作品的圖像並非復制以前的狀態，而是受到人們行為舉止的影響，持續發生變化。眼前這一瞬間的畫面，錯過就無法再看到了。

春天，到訪的群山櫻花爛漫，山腳油菜花片片。面對絢爛的山花，使我不禁遐想，這些花有多少是人工種植的，又有多少是大自然的饋贈。這裡綻放的花朵無邊無際，是讓人心曠神怡的場所。而接著讓我感受到的是，這裡的自然環境多多少少是受到了人為影響而形成的生態環境。有多少是自然原本的相貌，又有多少是人為影響造成的，界線非常模糊。也就是說，自然與人類沒有對立的概念，讓人心曠神怡的大自然結合了人類的影響，是和諧共處的生態環境。而有別於近代，人類對於自然無法掌握和控制的前提下，有了遵循自然法則的人們的長期經營，才創造了這個讓人心曠神怡的自然環境。生活在這個山谷裡的人們，依稀地讓我感覺到自古以來的自然與人的關系性依然留存，我想近一步探索在無法控制自然的前提下，對於自然產生影響的人為因素到底是何物。