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Name: teamLab: Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders
Start: 2015-09-10
End: 2015-09-17
Location: Saatchi Gallery

teamLab: Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders

EXPOSITION PASSÉE

2015.09.10(Thu) - 09.17(Thu)Saatchi Gallery, London

teamLab: Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders

EXPOSITION PASSÉE

2015.09.10(Thu) - 09.17(Thu)Saatchi Gallery, London

TRAVAUX

Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders

When no one is in the Butterfly House space, it is completely dark and nothing exists. When people enter the Butterfly House space, butterflies emerge from their bodies, and flutter from their feet to the floor. If people touch the butterflies they scatter.
The butterflies fly into the displays or out of the space, transcend the boundaries of other works, and fly into the other artworks. Then, when they enter another space they continue as a new artwork. The butterflies fly seamlessly between other works, blurring the boundaries between them.In the Borderless World, the butterflies are all created solely by the presence of people in the Butterfly House. If the number of butterflies that die when people touch them is more than the number people create, this artwork will cease to exist.When this artwork disappears, butterflies no longer enter the other spaces, and the artworks of butterflies in each space will no longer appear.

Ever Blossoming Life II – A Whole Year per Hour, Dark

This artwork is in a state of continuous change. Aligned to the passing hours of the day and over a period of one year, a seasonal year of flowers blossom and scatter. Flowers are born, grow and blossom in profusion before the petals scatter and the flowers wither and fade away. The cycle of birth and death repeats itself, continuing for eternity. The artwork is created in two versions: one with “A Whole Year per Hour, Dark” and another with “A Whole Year per Year, Dark”.

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.

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teamLab: Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders

Durée

2015.09.10(Thu) - 09.17(Thu)

Horaires

Sep 9 (Wed): 14:00 - 21:00 (by private view only)
Sep 10(Thu) – 12 (Sat): 11:00 - 18:00 (Public Days)
Sep 13(Sun): 11:00 - 17:00 (Public Days)
Sep 14(Mon): Closed Day
Sep 15(Tue) – 16(Wed): 10:00 – 17:00
Sep 17(Thu): 10:00 – 17:00<

Website

http://startartfair.com/curated-projects/team_lab

Accès

Saatchi Gallery（Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London, SW3 4RY, United Kingdom）

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NOUVELLES

Featured on The Creators Project, May 1, 2016

Flowers Bloom and Wither in New Interactive Installation

When Japanese multimedia art collective teamLab released Flutter Of Butterflies Beyond Borders last fall at London’s Saatchi Gallery, they experimented with a year’s worth of bloom and decay via an immersive space full of projected flowers and butterflies. For their latest work, Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together, teamLab return to the concept of annual change, this time with colorful, luminous flowers sprouting, growing, budding and blossoming before withering and eventually fading away. Viewers amble across a walkway that goes through a large open space that seems to go on infinitely, and where a year is equivalent to an hour spent in the exhibition.（Excerpt from the text）

Featured on BEAUTIFUL NOW, Jan 7, 2016

EMERGING ARTISTS = BEAUTIFUL STARTS NOW

START, one of London’s fastest growing annual art fairs, showcases contemporary art and design of emerging artists from around the world.In 2015, START featured work from 23 countries at the Saatchi Gallery. Among the curated projects was the Japanese digital collective, teamLab, self proclaimed “ultra-technologists,” whose immersive work, Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders, featured a magical, constantly evolving floral projection presented in a black-box room.（本文抜粋）

Featured on BBC World Service, Sep 15, 2015

The amazing flutter of butterflies

Tracey Logan visits the Saatchi gallery in London to see if technology is bringing about a renaissance in art. She asks if installations depicting the flutter of butterflies and the blooming of flowers – all digital of course – are having the same impact on art as the invention of oil paint did for the Renaissance?(Image caption: Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders – courtesy teamLab and START Image © Alexa Horan)

ARTISTE

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.

Equipment cooperation

Canon Inc. / Canon Marketing Japan Inc.