Art collective. Active since 2001. An international interdisciplinary group that explores the intersection of art, science, technology, and the natural world through collective creativity. It is composed of specialists from a wide range of fields, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects. teamLab seeks to use art to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and to discover new ways of perceiving it. In order to perceive the world, people tend to divide it into separate entities with boundaries. They seek to transcend the boundaries of perception, the boundary between the self and the world, and the cognitive boundaries of continuity in time. Everything exists, precariously and miraculously, on the seamless continuity of a vast expanse of time.

Art collective. Active since 2001. An international interdisciplinary collective that explores the intersection of art, science, technology, and the natural world through collective creativity. It is composed of specialists from a wide range of fields, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects. teamLab seeks to explore new ways of perceiving the relationship between the self and the world through art. In order to perceive, people divide the world into parts and see it as separate entities with boundaries. teamLab explores ways to transcend the boundaries of perception, the boundary between the self and the world, and even the boundaries of our awareness of the continuity of time. Everything exists, precariously and miraculously, upon the seamless continuity of an immensely long span of time.

Flowers, trees, and animals found in Singapore and the surrounding region are rendered as digital art. This large-scale installation space consists of a dome approximately 15 meters high, along with bridges and corridors suspended within it. The total distance traveled by visitors from the entrance to the exit exceeds 170 meters. On the bridge suspended in the 15-meter-high dome, Singapore’s flowers bloom and change continuously over time, as an infinite cosmic space unfolds. After crossing the bridge suspended in the dome, where Singapore’s flowers cascade down, visitors enter a spiral corridor running along the outer wall: a vast, interactive forest inhabited by Singapore’s flora and fauna. As one proceeds through the corridor, the world shifts from morning to evening to night, and the dry and rainy seasons arrive in accordance with Singapore’s actual seasons. In the dome space that follows the corridor, when visitors approach the wall and stop, the ground emerges, trees grow, a forest takes shape, and animals appear. The work is continuously generated in real time by computer program. The image seen in this moment can never be seen again. In addition, by launching the dedicated app “Story of the Forest,” information about the animals that randomly appear in the forest is sent to the user’s smartphone, allowing them to create a personalized animal encyclopedia. By connecting a forest in which visitors sharing the same space can experience the work together with the smartphones individuals carry, the project explores the coexistence of shared emotional experience and learning.

Human expression has been liberated from matter by digital technology. In other words, the existence of expression has been freed from its irreversible bond with matter, and in doing so, mass has also vanished. Expression freed from material constraints makes the experience of the work and the space itself “massless.” People, together with others, become part of the work—freed from matter and liberated—and, by blending into it, transform the boundary between self and others into something continuous, while seeking a new, borderless relationship between us and the world.

teamLab Planets TOKYO, the “museum where you enter into water” in Toyosu, Tokyo, is a vast immersive art space where you enter with your whole body into teamLab’s monumental works. Centered on four super-large “Body Immersive” art spaces, it consists of a total of seven art spaces. By immersing your whole body in these immense “Body Immersive” works, the boundary between body and artwork becomes blurred, unsettling your perception of the boundary between yourself and the world. Take off your shoes and immerse yourself, body and all, in these overwhelming super-large art spaces together with others. In the work “Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dancing Koi and People - Infinity,” where visitors walk barefoot through water, koi swim across an infinitely expansive water surface. When the koi collide with people, they transform into flowers and scatter. The flowers that bloom throughout the year change with the seasons.

Mifuneyama Rakuen was created in 1845, in the late Edo period, on a site spanning 500,000 square meters. Over the course of long, long time, immense rocks, caves, and forests took shape here, and in each era, people have found meaning in them. One can feel that one’s own existence lies upon the long-continuing, seamless continuity of the workings of nature and humankind. teamLab’s “Digitized Nature” is a project in which digital technology, itself immaterial, allows “nature to become art as nature.” Using the forms of the giant rocks, caves, forests, and the garden itself, which has endured for centuries, as they are, we find meaning in these presences that transcend the self through a long passage of time, as “continuous life.” And in the present day as well, we wish to continue layering new meanings onto this place.

teamLab will hold a large-scale opening exhibition, “teamLab: Universe of Water Particles in the Tank,” at TANK Shanghai (Shanghai Oil Tank Art Center), a new museum in Shanghai, China. The massive former fuel tank becomes a space that continues to transform in response to people’s behavior, making people part of the work and changing the relationship between people and the world into something more continuous. teamLab, which seeks to explore new relationships between people and the world through art, aims in this exhibition to go beyond boundaries that people tend to take for granted, such as the boundaries between works of art, between people and works, and between oneself and others, and to create a single space in which various works and people become one and influence one another.

teamLab will hold a large-scale art exhibition, “teamLab: Forest of Life & Future Park,” at Party Pier Culture and Art Zone in Zhujiang, Guangzhou, China. This exhibition consists of “Forest of Life,” a space in which visitors are immersed in the works of the art collective teamLab, and “Future Park (Learn! Future Park),” an educational project that explores collaborative creativity. In “Forest of Life,” people wander through the work space with bodies endowed with intent, dissolve into the space of the work, feel the world with their bodies, and think about the world with their bodies. In “Future Park,” people nurture “co-creation” by enjoying creative experiences together with others.

Wander, explore, and discover within a single world without boundaries teamLab Borderless is a “museum without a map” created from the art collective teamLab’s borderless artworks. Borderless art leaves its room, moves around, communicates with other works, influences them, and is influenced by them. There are no boundaries between the works, and sometimes they blend together. Through such a collection of works, a single world is seamlessly connected without borders. Immerse yourself bodily in borderless art, wander through a complex, three-dimensional 10,000 m² world, explore it with an intentional body, and create and discover new worlds together with others.

teamLab will participate in the “2019 Beijing International Horticultural Exposition,” held in Beijing, China, and present the interactive work “teamLab: Continuous Life in a Beautiful World.” Exhibited in the Botanic Garden, this work depicts a world of continuous life through the rich, beautiful ecosystem of a mangrove forest and the life that inhabits it. Through art, we seek to explore new relationships between humans and nature, and between the self and the world. “teamLab: Continuous Life in a Beautiful World” begins with life-size mangroves, and as visitors gradually become smaller, it transforms into an enlarged underwater world, and then further into a microscopic world of microorganisms that cannot usually be seen. It aims to reveal the rich, beautiful, and continuous life of the mangroves, ordinarily unseen, and to bring people together in a single space where they become one and influence one another.

To commemorate the 145th anniversary of Meijiza, the theater with the longest history in Tokyo, teamLab created “Shiki Kishoza – The Curtain Weaving Time,” a stage curtain that gradually changes day by day. This work reconstructs the intricate decoration of a traditional stage curtain through digital imagery. On the 7-meter-tall by 20-meter-wide curtain, the streets and daily life of Nihonbashi around the time of the Civilization and Enlightenment period, when Kishoza, the predecessor of Meijiza, was founded, are depicted, along with a variety of occupations from that era and historical figures. The world of the work changes daily in accordance with the actual time, season, and weather of Nihonbashi; the activities of the people change along with it. As the sun rises over Nihonbashi, the scene brightens; as sunset approaches, it turns into a sunset glow; and as night deepens, it becomes darker. If it is actually raining, it also rains within the world of the curtain. In addition, according to the season, you can see seasonal scenes such as cherry blossom viewing, festivals, autumn leaves, and snowy landscapes.

“teamLab: The World Begins in Darkness, Yet Is Still Soft and Beautiful” is being held at the Himeji City Museum of Art in Hyogo Prefecture. In this exhibition, teamLab presents works that make people part of the artwork and express the transformation of the relationship between people and the world into something more continuous. On display are “The World is Born from Darkness, Yet It is Still Soft and Beautiful,” in which the world embodied by a character appears as people approach it; “Black Waves: Buried, Lost and Regained,” an installation in which everything is continuously connected throughout the exhibition space like a single line drawing; “Continuous Life and Death, at the Present Moment, in All the Flowers of the Year, Is Not Controlled but Lives Together,” depicting flowers that change throughout the year; and the interactive monitor work “The World Is, Integrated, Divided, and Repeated, Yet Continually Different.”

teamLab will hold a solo exhibition, “teamLab: The Unbounded Flower Floating in the Sea of Eternality,” at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The exhibition will feature works including “Black Waves: Born, Buried, and Reborn,” an installation created by a single continuous wave; “Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity - Live with the Whole World, Embodying the Change in a Perpetual Now,” a space that keeps transforming under the influence of visitors’ behavior; “KOSHI-KU,” calligraphy written in space; “Reversible Rotation - Black in White,” which rotates through the exhibition space; and “Graffiti Flowers Bombing,” in which flowers drawn by visitors are born onto the walls, multiply, and spread. Through this exhibition, teamLab seeks to explore a new relationship between us and the world, in which people become part of the artwork together with others, dissolve into it, and thereby transform the boundary between self and others into something continuous.

At La Villette in Paris, France, an approximately 2,000-square-meter large-scale exhibition, “teamLab: Au-delà des limites” (meaning “A World Without Boundaries”), began in May 2018, in which the works blend together to form a single space. It is an exhibition that launches ahead of the entire “Japonismes 2018: les âmes en résonance” program.

When a person moves, force is applied in that direction. As a result, a flow is generated. When a fast flow occurs, a difference in velocity from the surrounding flow causes rotational motion, and vortices are born. Fluids are represented as a continuum of countless particles, and interactions between the particles are calculated. Then, the trajectories of the particles draw lines in space. The collection of those lines is flattened into a surface through teamLab’s concept of “Super Subjective Space,” and the work is created. The faster people move, the stronger the force applied in that direction. If people stop, or if people disappear, the flow ceases to occur, and nothing exists in the space. The work is born through the influence of people’s movements, and continues to transform. In the sea, complex terrain such as islands creates differences in flow velocity, causing vortices to form. Vortices stir up the remains of dead organisms that have sunk to the seafloor, turning the water into nutrient-rich seawater. Using that as a source of nutrients, plankton grow, and the fish and shellfish that feed on them also grow. The sea is made rich by vortices.

At Marina Bay Sands, famous for its floating ship-shaped pool in the sky in Singapore, the entire ice rink was renovated into an LED display. We created “DigitalLightCanvas,” a विशाल interactive space of light that expands people’s presence through digital art.

When food and plates are placed on the table, the world condensed and enclosed within them is set free, spreading across the table and throughout the entire space. Linking with the worlds released from other dishes and plates, the entire space begins to build a new world.

The waterfall in the entrance is continuously rendered in real time by a computer program. It is not playing back pre-recorded footage. The overall state is never duplicated from one moment to the next. The waterfall you see at this very moment can never be seen again. In this video, the waterfall normally exists as a visual screen separating the entrance from the other spaces.