teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle

Name: teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle
Start: 2019-11-08
End: 2020-01-13
Location: Kochi Castle

전시 종료

2019.11.08(Fri) - 2020.01.13(Mon)Kochi Castle, Kochi

Within Kochi Castle, there are many dark or unlit areas. Visitors are advised to wear clothes and footwear that are easy to move in for safety.

전시 종료

2019.11.08(Fri) - 2020.01.13(Mon)Kochi Castle, Kochi

#DigitizedKochiCastle

Within Kochi Castle, there are many dark or unlit areas. Visitors are advised to wear clothes and footwear that are easy to move in for safety.

teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle
Kochi Castle was built over a period of about 10 years starting in 1601. Despite it being destroyed in a  fire, it was rebuilt in the middle of the Edo period and restored to its original form. Kochi Castle is considered an important historical site in Japan, as it is the only castle where the castle tower and nearly all of the central structure remain intact.

This exhibition is a part of teamLab’s Digitized City art project. The concept behind the project is that non-material digital technology can turn a city into art without physically altering it.

Kochi Castle has stood from the Edo period to the present day and remains an important symbol for the city of Kochi. teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle will transform the castle into an interactive digital art space that changes due to the presence of people. This in turn, enhances the presence of humans, and transforms the relationship between people in the same space with digital art.

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작품

Autonomous Resonating Life and Resonating Trees

The resisting and resonating ovoids placed amongst the trees shine. The light of the ovoids and the light of the trees are autonomous: they shine brightly and then fade slowly, as though they are breathing.

When an ovoid is pushed, the color of the light it emits changes and a tone unique to that color echoes out. The light that originated from that ovoid resonates out to other ovoids and trees nearby. The tone resonates out continuously in the same way as the light, spreading throughout the ovoids and trees.

If a wave of light comes from the other side, it signifies the presence of people there. People gain a heightened sense of awareness of the existence of other people in the same space.

Floating, Resonating Spheres

Spheres of light float in the space、they move on their own, shining brightly, then disappearing—as if they are softly breathing. When the spheres of light are touched by a person or receive an impact, the color of their light changes, and they emit a musical tone unique to their new color. They then resonate that color and tone to the spheres around them, changing to the same color and emitting the same tone, resulting in a chain reaction.

What a Loving, and Beautiful World - Kochi Castle Stone Wall

This is an artwork that uses Kochi Castle’s stone walls: a historical landmark formed in most part by natural, untouched stones piled on one another. The light that draws the calligraphy is black, meaning there is no light, thus making it indistinguishable from the shadows of the stone walls formed by natural rocks heaped on one another and their weathering over the course of several hundred years. The calligraphy pours into the shadows of the stone wall.
When people stand near the characters, the worlds that the characters embody will appear, influencing one another to create a single world.
The elements that are born from the characters are placed at various positions within the space, and the physical influences and connections between them produce a single world. For example, when the wind blows, flowers and snow are physically fly away. Birds alight in trees, and butterflies are attracted to flowers. Just as in nature, what you see at this moment can never be seen again.

Breathing Resonating Stone Wall – Kochi Castle

Kochi castle is considered an important castle in Japan, as it is the only castle where the castle tower and nearly all of the central structure remain intact. Its stone walls glow across the whole 500 meters. The light of the walls is autonomous, it shines brightly and then fades, as if breathing slowly.

The light of the walls joins together with Resonating Tree and Autonomous Resonating Life in the Ninomaru and Sannomaru ruins area, glowing brightly and producing a colour tone that resonates out.

Resonating Kochi Castle

The light of Kochi Castle is autonomous, it shines brightly and then fades as if slowly breathing.The outer grounds house Resonating Tree and Autonomous Resonating Life, while the wall that extends from them to the Gate is home to Breathing Resonating Stone Wall - Kochi Castle. These artworks emit light, resonating, and shining brighter.

Sketch Ryoma & Friends　

This park is a place where the historical figures of Kochi meet.

Draw and color in the historical figures of Kochi, (Sakamoto Ryoma, Sakamoto Otome, Itagaki Taisuke, Chosokabe Motochika, Yamauchi Katsutoyo, and Chiyo) along with people (boys and girls). Then, see the characters come to life and walk around on a giant screen right in front of you.

Touch the people, and they will react with surprise and perform various actions.
Touch the historical figures, and they will begin to speak.

Black Waves of Kochi Castle (On view from Nov 8 to Dec 19, 2019)

Kochi castle is considered an important castle in Japan, as it is the only castle where the castle tower and nearly all of the central structure remain intact. The artwork depicts waves on the fusuma sliding doors of the passageways that connect the outer and inner sections of the castle.

The movement of waves is simulated in a computer-generated three-dimensional space. The water is expressed as a continuous body after calculating the interactions of hundreds of thousands of particles. To visualize the waves, the behavior of the particles of the water was then extracted and lines were drawn in relation to the movement of the particles. The wave created in a three-dimensional space is then turned into an artwork in accordance with what teamLab refers to as ultrasubjective space.

In premodern Japanese painting, oceans, rivers, and other bodies of water were expressed as a series of lines. These lines give the impression of life, as though water was a living entity.  

This form of expression leads us to question why premodern people sensed life in rivers and oceans. Also, why did they behave as if they themselves were a part of nature? Perhaps something can be discovered by fusing the fixed objective world of today’s common knowledge with the subjective world of premodern people.

While viewing this artwork, if we feel a sense of life in the collection of lines—what can be called the subjective world of premodern people—then perhaps this is one aspect of objective recognition.

When viewing this artwork, as opposed to watching waves shot with a video camera, people may feel that the barrier between themselves and the waves disappears. They feel immersed in the work, perhaps even feeling life in the collection of lines, as if the waves are luring them in.
Perhaps we can find a connection to the way premodern Japanese people perceived the world and consequently behaved toward the world.

If we regard ourselves as a part of nature, and consider nature not just as something to be observed, we might join premodern people in perceiving rivers and oceans as living entities. This is a way of seeing the world that lures us in and allows us to feel that there is no boundary between ourselves and nature.

Black Waves of Kochi Castle (On view from Nov 8 to Dec 19, 2019)

Kochi castle is considered an important castle in Japan, as it is the only castle where the castle tower and nearly all of the central structure remain intact. The artwork depicts waves on the fusuma sliding doors of the passageways that connect the outer and inner sections of the castle.
The movement of waves is simulated in a computer-generated three-dimensional space. The water is expressed as a continuous body after calculating the interactions of hundreds of thousands of particles. To visualize the waves, the behavior of the particles of the water was then extracted and lines were drawn in relation to the movement of the particles. The wave created in a three-dimensional space is then turned into an artwork in accordance with what teamLab refers to as ultrasubjective space.

In premodern Japanese painting, oceans, rivers, and other bodies of water were expressed as a series of lines. These lines give the impression of life, as though water was a living entity.  
This form of expression leads us to question why premodern people sensed life in rivers and oceans. Also, why did they behave as if they themselves were a part of nature? Perhaps something can be discovered by fusing the fixed objective world of today’s common knowledge with the subjective world of premodern people.
While viewing this artwork, if we feel a sense of life in the collection of lines—what can be called the subjective world of premodern people—then perhaps this is one aspect of objective recognition.
When viewing this artwork, as opposed to watching waves shot with a video camera, people may feel that the barrier between themselves and the waves disappears. They feel immersed in the work, perhaps even feeling life in the collection of lines, as if the waves are luring them in. Perhaps we can find a connection to the way premodern Japanese people perceived the world and consequently behaved toward the world.
If we regard ourselves as a part of nature, and consider nature not just as something to be observed, we might join premodern people in perceiving rivers and oceans as living entities. This is a way of seeing the world that lures us in and allows us to feel that there is no boundary between ourselves and nature.

Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life

The space is filled with ovoids of light. People move through the ovoids and enter the space.

When an ovoid is pushed, the color of its light changes, and it emits a sound tone specific to that color. The light  resonates out to other ovoids nearby. The sound tone resonates out continuously in the same way as the light, spreading throughout the ovoids in the space.

If a wave of light comes from the other side of the space, it signifies that there is another person there. As a result, people gain a heightened sense of awareness of the presence of others in the same space.

MAP

확대

1
Breathing Resonating Stone Wall – Kochi Castle
2
What a Loving, and Beautiful World - Kochi Castle Stone Wall
3
Sketch Ryoma & Friends　
4
Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life
5
Autonomous Resonating Life and Resonating Trees
6
Floating, Resonating Spheres
7
Resonating Kochi Castle
8
Black Waves of Kochi Castle

1
Breathing Resonating Stone Wall – Kochi Castle
2
What a Loving, and Beautiful World - Kochi Castle Stone Wall
3
Sketch Ryoma & Friends　
4
Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life
5
Autonomous Resonating Life and Resonating Trees
6
Floating, Resonating Spheres
7
Resonating Kochi Castle
8
Black Waves of Kochi Castle

관람안내

전시회장 정보

teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle 2019-2020

기간

2019.11.08(Fri) - 2020.01.13(Mon)

영업 시간

17:30 – 21:30 (Last entry 21:00)

관람료

Exhibition Admission:
Early Bird
Available at Convenience Stores in Japan
(Seven-Eleven, LAWSON, Mini stop, Family Mart)

[Number] 0252237 * Common number among all convenient stores above.
[Item] teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle Early Bird Ticket
[Sales Period] October 15 (Tue) - November 7 (Thurs), 2019

Same Day Ticket
Available at on site and Convenience Stores in Japan
(Seven-Eleven, LAWSON, Mini stop, Family Mart)

[Number] 0252238 * Common number among all convenient stores stated above.
[Item] teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle Same Day Ticket
[Sales Period] November 8 (Fri), 2019 - January 13 (Mon), 2020

Castle Tower Admission:
Only sold on site.

Contact

020701@ken.pref.kochi.lg.jp

오시는 길

주소

Kochi Castle
Kochi Park, 1-2-1 Marunouchi, Kochi City, Kochi

・15 min from Kochi Interchange by car.
・10 min from JR Kochi Station by car.
*For parking, please use the Kochi Park parking lot or the surrounding toll parking lots.
・3 minute walk from "Kochijo mae" Tosaden Kotsu tram stop 
* From JR Kochi Station, switch tram at Harimayabashi.

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홍보 자료

Notes

・Kochi Castle and Kochi Park have stairs and unpaved roads. Due to the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties, there are no access ramps.
・Visitors who come to the event drunk or otherwise pose a danger to themselves or others will be asked to leave.
・The exhibition may be closed due to severe weather.
・Entrance restrictions will apply if the venue reaches full capacity.
・The Organizers will not be held responsible for any injury, loss, or damage to personal items.
・Under no circumstances will refunds, exchanges or reissues be made after purchase.

작가

teamLab

아트 컬렉티브 teamLab은 2001년 활동을 시작했다. 국경을 넘어선 연대 속에 집단 창작의 방식으로 예술, 과학, 테크놀로지 그리고 자연계의 교차점을 학제적 접근으로 모색한다. 아티스트, 프로그래머, 엔지니어, CG 애니메이터, 수학자, 건축가 등 다양한 분야의 전문가들로 구성된 teamLab은 예술을 통해 인간과 자연, 개인과 세계의 새로운 관계를 탐구하고 표현한다.
 
teamLab은 우리에게 익숙한 모든 경계에 대해 질문한다. 인간은 각자를 둘러싼 바깥 세상을 감각 기관으로 인지해 스스로와 분리하고 낱낱을 경계지어 독립체로 구분하려 한다. 현대 문명은 그런 방식으로 세계를 이해해 왔다. teamLab은 예술을 통해 감각을 확장하고 개인과 세계의 경계, 시간의 연속성에 대한 인지의 경계를 넘어설 수 있다고 믿는다. 이 세계의 모든 것은 광대한 시간 속에, 생명의 끝없는 연속 안에 가까스로, 하지만 기적적으로 존재하고 있다.

teamLab의 작품은 시드니 뉴사우스웨일스 주립 미술관, 애들레이드 사우스오스트레일리아 미술관, 샌프란시스코 아시아 미술관, 뉴욕 아시아 소사이어티, 이스탄불 보루산 현대 미술관, 멜버른 빅토리아 국립 미술관, 헬싱키 아모렉스가 영구 소장하고 있다.

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Biographical Documents

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

주최자

teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle Executive Committee