teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle

Nov 22, 2018 - Jan 06, 2019

Kochi Castle Kochi

Within Kochi Castle, there are many dark or unlit areas. Visitors are advised to wear clothes and footwear that are easy to move in for safety.

Kochi Castle was built over a period of about 10 years starting in 1601. Despite it being destroyed in a fire, it was rebuilt in the middle of the Edo period and restored to its original form. Kochi Castle is considered an important historical site in Japan, as it is the only castle where the castle tower and nearly all of the central structure remain intact.
This exhibition is a part of teamLab’s Digitized City art project. The concept behind the project is that non-material digital technology can turn a city into art without physically altering it.
Kochi Castle has stood from the Edo period to the present day and remains an important symbol for the city of Kochi. teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle will transform the castle into an interactive digital art space that changes due to the presence of people. This in turn, enhances the presence of humans, and transforms the relationship between people in the same space with digital art.

ARTWORKS

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Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives in the Stone Wall – Kochi Castle

Flowers grow from the bodies of animals that inhabit the stone walls of Kochi Castle. The walls themselves are built on top of the undisturbed natural rock landscape.The flowers bud, bloom, scatter and fade away in a continuous cycle.When people move close to the animals the flowers scatter. Once all of the flowers have scattered the animals disappear.

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Waves of Light of Kochi Castle

Kochi castle is considered an important castle in Japan, as it is the only castle where the castle tower and nearly all of the central structure remain intact. The artwork depicts waves on the fusuma sliding doors of the passageways that connect the outer and inner sections of the castle.
The movement of waves is simulated in a computer-generated three-dimensional space. The water is expressed as a continuous body after calculating the interactions of hundreds of thousands of particles. To visualize the waves, the behavior of the particles of the water was then extracted and lines were drawn in relation to the movement of the particles. The wave created in a three-dimensional space is then turned into an artwork in accordance with what teamLab refers to as ultrasubjective space.

In premodern Japanese painting, oceans, rivers, and other bodies of water were expressed as a series of lines. These lines give the impression of life, as though water was a living entity.
This form of expression leads us to question why premodern people sensed life in rivers and oceans. Also, why did they behave as if they themselves were a part of nature? Perhaps something can be discovered by fusing the fixed objective world of today’s common knowledge with the subjective world of premodern people.
While viewing this artwork, if we feel a sense of life in the collection of lines—what can be called the subjective world of premodern people—then perhaps this is one aspect of objective recognition.
When viewing this artwork, as opposed to watching waves shot with a video camera, people may feel that the barrier between themselves and the waves disappears. They feel immersed in the work, perhaps even feeling life in the collection of lines, as if the waves are luring them in. Perhaps we can find a connection to the way premodern Japanese people perceived the world and consequently behaved toward the world.
If we regard ourselves as a part of nature, and consider nature not just as something to be observed, we might join premodern people in perceiving rivers and oceans as living entities. This is a way of seeing the world that lures us in and allows us to feel that there is no boundary between ourselves and nature.

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Breathing Resonating Stone Wall – Kochi Castle

Kochi castle is considered an important castle in Japan, as it is the only castle where the castle tower and nearly all of the central structure remain intact. Its stone walls glow across the whole 500 meters. The light of the walls is autonomous, it shines brightly and then fades, as if breathing slowly.
The light of the walls joins together with Resonating Tree and Autonomous Resonating Life in the Ninomaru and Sannomaru ruins area, glowing brightly and producing a colour tone that resonates out.

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Venue Details

Title: teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle

Term: Nov 22, 2018 - Jan 06, 2019

Hours: 17:30 – 21:30 (Last entry 21:00)

Admission Fee: *Tickets include admission into Kochi Castle during night time.
*Children in preschool or younger are free.
*The following visitors and up to one caregiver may enter at half price. This discount is only available at the door on the day of.
・Visitors with a certified disability, illness, or injury
・Atomic bomb survivors
*Early-bird price available for groups of over 20 people.
*Set tickets may not be sold at certain locations.
*All ticket sales are final. No cancellations are accepted.

Please Note

・Kochi Castle and Kochi Park have stairs and unpaved roads. Due to the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties, there are no access ramps.

・Visitors who come to the event drunk or otherwise pose a danger to themselves or others t will be asked to leave.

・The exhibition may be closed due to severe weather.

・Entrance restrictions will apply if the venue reaches full capacity.

・The Organizers will not be held responsible for any injury, loss, or damage to personal items.

Contact

teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle Information

0120-156-507 (Weekday 9:00 – 17:00)

ACCESS

Address: Kochi Castle
Kochi Park, Marunouchi 1-2-1, Kochi City, Kochi Google map

・15 min from Kochi Interchange
・10 min from JR Kochi Station
*For parking, please use the Kochi Park parking lot or the surrounding toll parking lots.
・3 minute walk from "Kochijo mae" Tosaden Kotsu tram stop
* From JR Kochi Station, switch to tram at Harimayabashi.

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ARTIST

teamLab

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective, an interdisciplinary group of various specialists such as artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world.

teamLab aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world and new perceptions through art. In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perception of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity of life.

teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Asia Society Museum, New York; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Amos Rex, Helsinki.

teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art International.

Biographical Documents

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Organizers

Shikoku Kochi Bakumatsu Ishinhaku Executive Committee
Special Sponsors

Sunny Mart IHI DAI-ICHI Consultants

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