Galaxy & teamLab: Catching and Collecting in the Sacred Forest | teamLab

Name: Galaxy & teamLab: Catching and Collecting in the Sacred Forest
Start: 2022-04-01
End: 2022-09-25
Location: Galaxy Harajuku

PAST EXHIBITION

Apr 01 - Sep 25, 2022Galaxy Harajuku, Harajuku, Tokyo

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PAST EXHIBITION

Apr 01 - Sep 25, 2022Galaxy Harajuku, Harajuku, Tokyo

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Galaxy ＆ teamLab: Catching and Collecting in the Sacred Forest
Built upon innovative ideas and the spirit of Do What You Can’t, Galaxy Harajuku believes in creating the future by exceeding expectations, and challenging the present and the impossible.

Galaxy Harajuku is an experiential center dedicated to engaging people with new discoveries in every visit, through transformative experiences that offer an insight into the future. Celebrating its third anniversary this year, Galaxy Harajuku presents an unparalleled experience in collaboration with teamLab.

This exhibition at Galaxy Harajuku, Catching and Collecting in the Sacred Forest, is a new learning project based on the concept of Catch, Study, Release, in which people explore the world with their bodies, discovering, catching, and broadening their interests based on what they catch. Explore with a Galaxy smartphone, capture various animals, study them, and create your very own collection book.

Animals move between the physical world and the world in the Galaxy smartphone without boundaries.

By persistently challenging the impossible, Galaxy Harajuku creates an exceptional experience evocative of the future.

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Catching and Collecting in the Sacred Forest

The Catching and Collecting in the Sacred Forest is a new learning space based on the concept of Catch, Study, Release, in which people explore the world with their bodies, discovering, catching, and broadening their interests based on what they catch. Explore with your smartphone, capture various animals, study them, and create your very own collection book.

Endangered animals and animals that have already gone extinct live in this sacred forest. When you touch an animal, it will turn to face you or run away.

When you use the smartphone's camera to look at an animal moving in the space, and then shoot a Study Arrow at the animal in the camera’s view, the arrow flies out from the phone into the real space. When the animal is hit by the arrow, it disappears from the space and is added to the smartphone collection. Information about the animals you capture will be stored in the app's collection book. When you swipe a captured animal towards a location you can see in the app’s camera, the animal is released and returns to that location.

You can also throw a Study Net at your feet to catch animals. Work together with those around you, use your body to drive animals into the Study Net to capture them, and watch as they disappear from the space and, at the same time, appear in your collection book. Swipe the captured animals away to release them at your feet.

The more you capture the same animal, the more detailed information you can record in your collection book.

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Venue Details

Galaxy & teamLab: Catching and Collecting in the Sacred Forest

Term

Apr 01 - Sep 25, 2022

Hours

11:00 - 19:00 (Last entry at 18:30)

Admission Fee

Free

Priority entrance tickets with designated times are available in order to enter the exhibition with shorter wait times.

Entry is possible without prior reservation, however, there may be a wait time depending on how crowded the exhibition is.
Thank you for your understanding.

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Galaxy Harajuku

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Address

Galaxy Harajuku
1-8-9, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

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Address in local language:

Galaxy Harajuku
東京都渋谷区神宮前1丁目8-9

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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’s works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;  Amos Rex, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; and Asia Society Museum, New York, among others.

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Biographical Documents

teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art.