teamLab will be exhibiting six works, including a new piece, at the KENPOKU ART 2016 Ibaraki Prefecture Northern Art Festival, an international art festival taking place in six cities and towns in northern Ibaraki Prefecture, from September 17 to November 20. Their new work, "Flowers Blooming in an Infinite Universe Within a Small Object," features flowers blooming in a teacup as tea is made. This interactive piece is continuously rendered in real time by a computer program. Flowers bloom when the teacup is left standing or still, and scatter all at once when the teacup is lifted or moved. The flowers will continue to bloom and die forever as long as there is tea in the teacup. Once the tea is drunk, the artwork will disappear along with the tea. "Flutter of Butterflies Without Borders" is a work in which butterflies dance through space, transforming the patterns on their wings. The butterflies fly beyond the screen and seamlessly into other works exhibited in the same space, eliminating and blurring the boundaries between them. The butterflies are influenced by the state of other works, such as gathering where flowers are blooming in other works, and they die if touched by viewers. "Nirvana" was created using a unique method of expression called "square painting," in which the entire screen is divided into tens of thousands of squares and each square is colored individually. Plants and animals move as three-dimensional objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, and the colors of the three-dimensional space are divided and colored by each square on the screen. Because the squares on the screen remain fixed while the space moves, the colors within the squares move on a different time axis from the space itself. The six works on display include "Proliferating Life II - A Whole Year per Hour, Dark," which uses a computer program to continuously render in real time the slow growth, scattering, and disappearance of tree branches, flower petals, and light; "Mahoroba," a picture scroll tale that depicts the creation of a new capital as the stories of various people unfold simultaneously; and "The World is So Gentle and Beautiful," in which the viewer's shadow touches letters, causing the world they represent to appear and create the world, and the things born from those letters then influence each other within the world.
【Event Information】
"teamLab: Thinking of the Fragile Present of Small, Infinitely Blooming Flowers"
Venue: Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki Prefecture
Address: 2083 Otsu-cho, Kitaibaraki City, Ibaraki Prefecture
Dates: September 17th - November 20th
Hours: 9:00 - 17:00 (last entry 30 minutes before closing)
Closed: Mondays (closed the following day if Monday is a public holiday or substitute holiday)
*Admission is possible with presentation of an individual Ibaraki Prefectural Kita Art Festival ticket (price to be determined) or an artwork viewing passport.