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Transforming Continuum
2025〜
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Even when each component is separated in time and space, if an order emerges among them, the components transcend spacetime and a singular existence appears. And even if its form and scale undergo dramatic surface-level change, or all of its components are replaced, that singular existence is maintained.
This spacetime-based existence is a part of the whole, born from the whole, and returns to the whole. A living cosmos of temporal-spatial existences.
An existence is born in space. It is born on the ground as a mass, rising up from the ground. It also appears in the air, transcending the concept of mass, and continues to exist fixed in midair. The contours of these existences are vague, and the glowing spheres that compose them are constantly replaced. Even if a person enters this existence with their whole body, the existence is maintained; even if it is broken by people, it repairs itself. And even if people try to push it or move it aside, the existence cannot be moved. Human physical actions cannot even budge this existence.
Rather than creating an object, by creating a special environment, one creates an existence through the order of energy generated by that environment. Let us call these “Higher-Order Sculpture.” It cannot be separated from the environment, and changes along with environmental change. It transcends the conventional notion of existence as an object, remains present in midair, has vague contours, maintains its existence even when a person enters it with their whole body, and repairs its own existence when broken.
This is sculpture premised on an open system.
Work page: https://www.teamlab.art/jp/ew/morphingcontinuum-kyoto/kyoto/
