The Way of the Sea: Cosmic Void

teamLab, 2018-, Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

The Way of the Sea: Cosmic Void

teamLab, 2018-, Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

This work is to be viewed from a position close to the entrance.

The artwork begins when The Way of the Sea: Flying Beyond Borders enters the Cosmic Void. When it ends, The Way of the Sea: Flying Beyond Borders leaves the space.

If you stand at the position close to the entrance, the boundary between the wall and the floor disappears, making the lines drawn by the trails of the shoal appear three-dimensional. Eventually your body becomes immersed in the world of the artwork, and the boundary between the artwork world and the viewer dissolves as well.

The shoal of fish rendered in light moves freely through the space, leaving trails of light. They sense people’s presence and try to avoid colliding with them.

The movement of thousands of fish is beautiful and mysterious, appearing like a single giant life form. The physiological mechanism of the movement of the shoal is shrouded in mystery, but the fact that it feels like a living organism intuitively suggests that there is a high level of order in space and time. teamLab would like to search for a new spatio-temporal form that can have a strong existence and a sense of life even if the constituent elements are temporally and spatially distant from each other. teamLab believes that we can seek a new form that can be felt as the same existence as long as the same order is maintained, even though spatially the same form will never be the same again, and even though the size of the object varies greatly over time.