الظواهر البيئية
2020
لا توجد الأعمال الفنية في "تيم لاب فينومينا" بشكل مستقل، ولكن يتم إنشاؤها من خلال البيئة التي تشكل الظواهر المختلفة التي تخلق الأعمال الفنية.
تحافظ الأشياء مثل الحجارة والإبداعات من صنع الإنسان على بنية مستقرة بشكل مستقل.
فالحجر على سبيل المثال، سيبقى على حاله حتى لو وُضع في صندوق مغلق معزول عن العالم الخارجي. وعلى النقيض من ذلك، فإن الدوامة في المحيط ستختفي في لحظة إذا ما أُزيلت من بيئتها. فعلى عكس الحجر، لا تحافظ الدوامة على نفسها؛ فهي تتطور مع التيارات المحيطة بها، حيث يتدفق الماء باستمرار من خارج الدوامة إلى داخلها ومن داخلها إلى خارجها، ويتغير مع التدفق. وعلاوة على ذلك، فإن حدود وجودها غامضة، ولا يوجد تمييز مادي بين الدوامة ومحيطها.
إن البيئة الفريدة تشكل الظواهر، وتحافظ على وجود بنية تلك الظواهر. ودعونا نسمي هذا الوجود بـ "الظواهر البيئية". والعمل الفني لا ينفصل عن البيئة ويتغير مع تغيرها. ويتجاوز هذا المفهوم المفاهيم التقليدية المختلفة للوجود من خلال الأشكال المادية. فحتى لو انغمس الناس جسديًا في العمل الفني، سيبقى العمل الفني سليمًا وقادرًا على استعادة نفسه بشكل طبيعي حتى لو تعطل. ومع ذلك، عندما لا يتم الحفاظ على البيئة، سيختفي العمل الفني. وحدود العمل الفني غامضة ومستمرة مع البيئة. وربما سيتوسع إدراك الناس من العمل الفني نفسه إلى البيئة المحيطة به.
FEATURED WORKS
teamLab, 2022-, Interactive Installation, Sound: teamLab
Like an organic entity created from crystallized light, the work shines iridescently from its center as it moves around, merging and dividing continuously.
People can walk into the artwork, and even if they do so, the artwork will continue to be maintained, its existence unharmed. If a person touches the artwork, they realize that what they are looking at is ordinary water. The artwork’s existence is not independent, but is actually a unique phenomenon created by its environment.
The places where the work appears will change as the viewer moves. The work’s appearance is unique to the viewer, so someone viewing the artwork from another angle will see a different colored work appearing in a different place. In other words, the existence of the artwork being seen is created by its environment, and exists only in the viewer.
teamLab, 2020-, Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
This floating, immense sculpture emerges from a sea of bubbles, transcending the very concept of mass. It neither sinks to the ground nor rises completely to the ceiling, but instead drifts in the middle of the space. The contours of its existence are ambiguous—it fragments into smaller pieces, but merges into a larger mass. Even when people fully immerse themselves in this sculpture, its existence remains intact. If broken by people, it naturally restores itself. However, when the sculpture is destroyed beyond what it can repair, it collapses, unable to recover. Even if people try to move or push this floating sculpture, they cannot do so, and if they stir up wind, the sculpture disperses entirely. Physical human actions cannot move the sculpture.
Objects such as stones and man-made creations maintain a stable structure on their own. A stone will continue to exist even if placed in a sealed box, isolated from the external world.
On the other hand, a vortex created in the ocean disappears instantly when transferred into an enclosed box. In other words, a vortex does not maintain a stable structure independently. A vortex exists within the flow created by its environment formed by water continuously flowing from the outside to the inside and from the inside to the outside, maintained by the vortex’s ordered structure. This flow allows the vortex to shift as the surrounding currents change. Its boundaries are ambiguous. There is no material distinction between the vortex and its surroundings as they are made of water.
Rather than a solid object, this sculpture is created by the order of energy generated by the phenomena of a unique environment. Let us call this existence created by the order of energy, a "Higher Order Sculpture." The artwork is inseparable from the environment and changes along with the environment. It transcends the conventional notions of physical objects—it sustains its existence mid-air, having ambiguous boundaries, and it is able to maintain its shape even when people immerse themselves physically into the sculpture, naturally restoring itself even if the sculpture breaks.
The only material substances present in this space are water, air, and ordinary soap.
By filling the space with bubbles, a distinct environment is created in which an order of energy is born. By doing so, a massive form emerges from this sea of bubbles that floats steadily in mid-air.
In modern biology, the definition of life cannot be strictly defined, but everything that is structured upon cells, capable of metabolism, and self-reproduction are labeled living things for convenience. In other words, all living things are composed of cells. All cells are enclosed by a cell membrane constructed of a lipid bilayer, with the hydrophilic part facing outward and the hydrophobic part covered within the layers. Both the inside and outside of the enveloping membrane are liquid. Soap bubbles are similarly enveloped by lipid bilayer membranes, and these membranes are structurally identical to cell membranes. However, contrary to cells, the bilayer of the bubble membrane floats in and encloses air, so the hydrophobic part faces outward, while the hydrophilic part is covered within the layers. In other words, if we consider cells to be pouch-shaped membranes in liquid, then bubbles are pouch-shaped membranes in air.
This sculpture is created from substances composed in the same ways as cells, the structuring units of life-forms, and the order of energy created from this environment.
The same is true of life. It consumes external matter and energy as food and discharges it, sustaining its ordered structure as the energy dissipates. Life exists within the flow of matter and energy, and its contour, like a vortex, is ambiguous.
Perhaps, life is a miraculous phenomenon that emerges in the flow of matter and energy, and its structure is the order of energy created by that flow.
teamLab, 2022, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: teamLab
A sphere made of accumulated rays of light.
The light radiates from the center in infinite fine rays, creating its spherical shape. The light source remains motionless, yet the countless lines emitting from it wriggle continuously.
The sphere has no surface boundary, and the perception of the boundary between the artwork and the body is ambiguous. When you try to touch the sphere, it reacts, but since it does not have a physical boundary, your hand goes into the sphere.
What is this sphere? Why do the rays wriggle?
Our world is within us.
And once we recognize this sphere made of accumulated lines, our perception of the world expands, and we will begin to notice it wherever we go.
teamLab, 2022-, Installation, Sound: teamLab
We do not perceive the world we see, we see the world we perceive.
A sphere made of accumulated rays of light.
The light radiates from the center in infinite fine rays, creating its spherical shape. The light source remains motionless, yet the countless lines emitting from it wriggle continuously.
The sphere has no surface boundary, and the perception of the boundary between the artwork and the body is ambiguous. When you try to touch the sphere, it reacts, but since it does not have a physical boundary, your hand goes into the sphere.
What is this sphere? Why do the rays of lines wriggle?
Our world is within us.
And if we perceive this sphere made of accumulated lines, the world we perceive will expand, and we may see the spheres of accumulated lines in our daily lives. As the world you perceive changes, the way you see the world goes on to change.
teamLab, 2022-, Interactive Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
Countless spheres of light and spheres of darkness.
Each sphere of light can be clearly perceived in the space as a mass seemingly made of solidified light, however, there is no material surface boundary. The perception of the boundary between the artwork and your body is ambiguous.
When you broaden your vision, purple-blue spheres made of darkness also begin to appear, as though darkness has been solidified.
If you try to touch a sphere of light, the sphere shines brightly and the surrounding spheres respond one after the other.
Light does not solidify, and masses made entirely of light do not exist in the universe. In other words, these spheres of light only exist in your perception.
The artwork cannot exist on its own - its existence is a phenomenon created by its environment.
The work questions the notion of existence and what it means.