teamLab: Dance! Art Museum and Future Parks | teamLab

Name: teamLab: Dance! Art Museum and Future Parks
Start: 2018-06-30
End: 2018-09-02
Location: Akita Museum of Modern Art

PAST EXHIBITION

Jun 30 - Sep 02, 2018Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita

PAST EXHIBITION

Jun 30 - Sep 02, 2018Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita

Art

Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives

Seasonal flowers bloom while slowly changing. Animals are born from those flowers. The flowers continue to bloom and die in an eternal cycle, forming the shapes of animals.
When people touch the animals, the flower petals scatter. If people touch the animals too much, all of the flowers will scatter, and the animals will die and fade away.

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.

Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well: Cosmic Void

This work is to be viewed from a position close to the entrance of the space.
The artwork begins when Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well: Flying Beyond Borders enters the Cosmic Void. When it ends, the crows leave the space.
If you stand at the position close to the entrance, the boundary between the wall and the floor disappears and the real world dissolves, making the lines drawn by the trails of the crows appear three-dimensional. Eventually the body becomes immersed in the world of the artwork, and the boundary between the artwork and viewer dissolves as well.
Flocks of mythical crows (Yatagarasu) rendered in light fly around the space leaving trails in their wake and forming Spatial Calligraphy. The chasing crows are eventually chased themselves, and form flowers when they crash into each other, scattering their petals. Although the crows usually avoid crashing into people in the space, when they happen to do so, they similarly form flowers, scattering their petals.

Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – A Whole Year per Hour

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.

100 Years Sea Animation Diorama

This installation is a 10 minute condensed version of the artwork 100 Years Sea. The installation gives viewers the feeling that there is no border between the animated world and the real world, and the rising sea that eventually swallows them.

Historically Japanese artists painted and expressed waves using a combination of lines. These assembled lines give the impression of the life and energy of the sea as one living creature. Looking at the sea we feel awe, and it is probably due to this awe that Japanese artists chose to express the sea as a living entity. Japanese ancestors possibly saw the world as it is depicted in classic Japanese pictures.

Based on this idea, teamLab considered recombining the subjective view of ancient times with the fixed objective view of the modern world. The waves were created in a virtual 3-D space and then the space is converted into what teamLab calls, Ultra Subjective Space. In doing so, instead of viewing the work objectively, we may be able to discover a new form of expression in which viewers feel there is no border between the world of the movie and the world in which they exist. As a result the viewers may be able to feel the movie more physically.

What a Loving, and Beautiful World

Each character has its own world. When people touch the letters, the worlds of the characters appear, and they influence each other, creating one single world. Rain, snow, and flowers are affected by the wind, birds perch on trees, and butterflies are attracted to flowers.When other artworks touch the letters, the worlds they contain appear as well. The worlds created by people interact with the worlds created by other people and other works, creating new imagery.The artwork seen at this moment in time can never be seen again.
At times, the artwork spreads far and wide.

Learn & Play! Future Park

Sketch Aquarium

All the various fish drawn by everyone swim around in this aquarium.

Color in a fish on the paper provided, and see the picture you have drawn come to life, swimming out into the massive aquarium in front of you together with the fish drawn by other people. If you touch the swimming fish, they will swim away. You can also feed the fish by touching the food bags.

Sliding through the Fruit Field

This is a slide where fruit grows.

Various kinds of fruit are growing on the slope. Balls are also bouncing around.
You become the sunlight and slide down the slope. When your body collides with the balls, your sunlight energy will be transferred to them, and they will go flying off in all directions. When the balls collide with the fruit, the fruit will begin to grow.
Each ball has a different role depending on its color.

A light blue ball represents water: when this ball hits the seeds, they sprout, bud, and blossom. When a yellow honey bee ball hits the flowers, they are pollinated, and the flowers become fruit.
When the fruit is hit by a ball, new seeds are sown, leading to new life.

A Table where Little People Live

This is a table where little people live.
If you put something, such as your hand, on top of the table, the little people will jump on to it. Depending on the shape of the objects you place on the table, the little people will slide, jump, or climb. Place many objects on the table and the little people will play with delight.

A Musical Wall where Little People Live

This is a musical wall where little people live.
When stamps of various shapes such as mushrooms, sheep barns, or long sticks of ice are attached to the wall, these objects appear in the world of the little people. The little people notice these and start jumping onto them.Depending on the stamp, the little people will slide, jump, or climb on top of them. If the stamp is removed, the stamp in the world of the little people will remain for a moment longer before disappearing.Attach various stamps to the wall, and the little people will play with delight.
Seeds with smiley faces come falling down from above. When the seeds hit the stamps, various notes in different pitches play depending on the type and position of the stamp they hit, eventually creating music.

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Venue Details

teamLab: Dance! Art Museum and Future Parks

Term

Jun 30 - Sep 02, 2018

Hours

9:30 – 17:00 (last entry 16:30)

Closed

Open every day during exhibition period.
On August 1st (Wednesday) and August 7th (Tue), we may restrict some admission for holding events.

Admission Fee

Adults: 1,400 yen, (Advance and group ticket: 1,200 yen)
High school & junior high school students: 1,000 yen, (Advance and group ticket: 800 yen), to be required school ID.
Under 3 years old: 600 yen, (Advance and group ticket: 500 yen)
Below 2 years old: free
Physical Disability Certificate or Rehabilitation Certificate holders: free, to be required appropriate certificate.

*All inclusive of Japanese Consumption Tax.
*Group ticket applies from 20 pax onwards.
*High school & junior high school students are requred school ID.
*Physical Disability Certificate or Rehabilitation Certificate holders are required appropriate certificate.
*100 yen discount with ticket stub of this exhibition, or ticket stub of "Mt. Fuji of Hokusai" (Apr 21 - Jun 17, 2018). Can not be combined with other discounts.

Cooperation

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Contact address

E-mail:akitamma@rnac.ne.jp

TEL

Akita Museum of Modern Art
0182-33-8855

Access

From JR and bus / JR Yokote Eki east exit, take the bus "To Furusato village", get off at Furusato village.
Passenger car / 3 minutes from Akita Expressway Yokote Inter.
※ There is a wheelchair-compatible parking lot. Please call the museum when you use.
High-speed bus / highway bus Yuzawa / Akita line "Yokote Inter entrance" get off and walk 10 minutes on foot.
※ "Yokote Inter Entrance" is for riding only for Akita, get off at Yuzawa only get off.

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Address

Akita Museum of Modern Art
5th and 6th floor Exhibition Space
Inside "Akita Furusato Village"
62-46, Tomigasawa, Akasaka, Yokote, Akita

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ARTIST

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.

Organizers

teamLab Akita Exhibition Executive Committee
(Akita Broadcasting System, Inc./ Akita Museum of Modern Art)

Special Sponsors

Akita Suzuki,Sanko Home