BATHVERSE, opened in Shinagawa, Tokyo by Nipoli Chemical Industries, a manufacturer specializing in unit bathrooms. It transforms the expanded sense of rising from soaking in hot water into an immersive spatial experience, enveloped by six screens, a mirrored floor, and three-dimensional sound.

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.

Explanation: The victory movie for the Orix Buffaloes’ 2025 season. It is now being shown on the main video board at Kyocera Dome Osaka. Please come and watch it at the ballpark.

Inside the spheres, there are myriad lights intermingled: lights with tangible material existence, large, strong lights like soap bubbles, huge, weak, jiggly lights like lumps of jelly, and lights generated by the surrounding environment. Within the spheres, some lights keep moving while others remain completely still. The light in each sphere cannot generate everything on its own; the other spheres become the environment, and the environment generates the myriad lights within each sphere. Each sphere becomes part of the environment that generates the light of the other spheres, and the phenomena created by the environment are the existence of the work. Also, except for the material light, such as the soap-bubble-like light and the jelly-like light that appears strongly within spheres at higher positions, the light does not physically exist inside the spheres; it exists in perception. And when it exists in perception, it is existence. When a person stops near a sphere and remains still, the nearest sphere shines brightly and resounds with a tone, and the light propagates from that sphere to the nearest sphere. The propagated light continues on to the next nearest sphere, and so on. The light always continues only to the nearest sphere, passing through each sphere only once, becoming a single light path that traverses all the spheres. And the light born from oneself and the light born from others intersect. The seemingly random arrangement of the spheres is a configuration in which the light generated by people’s presence continues from sphere to sphere, a configuration for the beauty of continuity itself. Specifically, the positions of the spheres in space are mathematically determined so that, when lines are drawn from each sphere to the nearest sphere in three-dimensional space, they form a single connected line that can be drawn in one stroke, with the same start and end point (unicursal), and so that the line, which becomes the path of light, is beautiful. As a result, although the light of the spheres responding to people only propagates to the nearest sphere, it passes through all the spheres only once, like a one-stroke drawing. At the same time, it intersects with the light generated by others during the same period. This is a work that expresses the beauty of continuity in the light created when people interact with spheres in free spaces. Work page: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/ew/bubbleuniverse-azabudai/tokyo/?autoplay=true