100 Years Sea | teamLab
2022.07.15(Fri) - PermanentTokushima
Restaurant
2022.07.15(Fri) - PermanentTokushima
Restaurant
100 Years Sea
100 Years Sea [running time: 100 years], which was unveiled in 2009, is a video work with a running time of 100 years. In the 100 years leading up to 2109, the sea level rises gradually from moment to moment.
Since we first presented the work, we have been pondering what kind of experience, what kind of exhibition, would be best for a work with a length of 100 years.
The sea level in the artwork that surrounds this space rises steadily each moment over the period of 100 years.
Here, visitors are enveloped by this gradually rising sea, experiencing the artwork as they enjoy dishes made from fish that would have otherwise been discarded*. We wanted this artwork experience to be one that takes into consideration and explores the sustainability of the beautiful and abundant oceans. And we wanted this space to be somewhere that people could experience over and over throughout a long period of time.
*The seafood dishes are 100% made using fish caught in the local sea that would have otherwise been discarded, and the meat dishes are entirely made from game meat of animals that are subject to extermination in the neighboring forest. While there are no accurate statistics on discarded fish, it is estimated that in most parts of the world, around 30 to 35% of total catch is discarded.
Additionally In Japan, due to factors such as the extinction of wolves and the increase of abandoned farmland, the estimated population of deer and wild boars has increased around tenfold and threefold respectively in 25 years, and more than 90% of deer and 95% of wild boars captured as vermin are discarded.
Since we first presented the work, we have been pondering what kind of experience, what kind of exhibition, would be best for a work with a length of 100 years.
The sea level in the artwork that surrounds this space rises steadily each moment over the period of 100 years.
Here, visitors are enveloped by this gradually rising sea, experiencing the artwork as they enjoy dishes made from fish that would have otherwise been discarded*. We wanted this artwork experience to be one that takes into consideration and explores the sustainability of the beautiful and abundant oceans. And we wanted this space to be somewhere that people could experience over and over throughout a long period of time.
*The seafood dishes are 100% made using fish caught in the local sea that would have otherwise been discarded, and the meat dishes are entirely made from game meat of animals that are subject to extermination in the neighboring forest. While there are no accurate statistics on discarded fish, it is estimated that in most parts of the world, around 30 to 35% of total catch is discarded.
Additionally In Japan, due to factors such as the extinction of wolves and the increase of abandoned farmland, the estimated population of deer and wild boars has increased around tenfold and threefold respectively in 25 years, and more than 90% of deer and 95% of wild boars captured as vermin are discarded.
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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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