teamLab: The World of Irreversible Change | teamLab

Name: teamLab: The World of Irreversible Change
Start: 2024-03-23
End: 2025-03-23
Location: San Antonio Museum of Art

teamLab: The World of Irreversible Change

Mar 23, 2024 - Mar 23, 2025San Antonio Museum of Art , Texas

teamLab: The World of Irreversible Change

Mar 23, 2024 - Mar 23, 2025San Antonio Museum of Art , Texas

ARTWORKS

The World of Irreversible Change

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.

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Venue Details

teamLab: The World of Irreversible Change

Term

Mar 23, 2024 - Mar 23, 2025

Hours

Tuesday 10AM - 7PM
Wednesday 10AM - 5PM
Thursday 10AM - 5PM
Friday 10AM - 7PM
Saturday 10AM - 5PM
Sunday 10AM - 5PM

Christmas Eve (Open From 10AM to 3PM)
New Year's Eve (Open From 10AM to 3PM)
Fiesta Flambeau Parade (April 27, 2024, Open From 10AM to 3PM)

Closed

Monday
Thanksgiving
Christmas Day
New Year's Day
Easter Sunday
Battle of Flowers (April 26, 2024)
Independence Day

Website

San Antonio Museum of Art

ACCESS

Address

San Antonio Museum of Art
200 W. Jones Ave.
San Antonio, Texas 78215

Map

By email

info@samuseum.org

By phone

210.978.8100

TICKETS

Admission

Members

Free

Adults

USD 20.00

Seniors

65+

USD 17.00

Military

USD 12.00

Students

USD 12.00

Youth

13 to 18

USD 10.00

Children

12 & under

Free

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 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.