teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle

Name: teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle
Start: 2018-11-22
End: 2019-01-06
Location: Kochi Castle

PAST EXHIBITION

Nov 22, 2018 - Jan 06, 2019Kochi 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.

PAST EXHIBITION

Nov 22, 2018 - Jan 06, 2019Kochi 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.

teamLab: Digitized Kochi Castle
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

Autonomous Resonating Life and Resonating Trees

The resisting and resonating ovoids placed amongst the trees shine. The light of the ovoids and the light of the trees are autonomous: they shine brightly and then fade slowly, as though they are breathing.

When an ovoid is pushed, the color of the light it emits changes and a tone unique to that color echoes out. The light that originated from that ovoid resonates out to other ovoids and trees nearby. The tone resonates out continuously in the same way as the light, spreading throughout the ovoids and trees.

If a wave of light comes from the other side, it signifies the presence of people there. People gain a heightened sense of awareness of the existence of other people in the same space.

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.

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.

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.

Resonating Kochi Castle

The light of Kochi Castle is autonomous, it shines brightly and then fades as if slowly breathing.The outer grounds house Resonating Tree and Autonomous Resonating Life, while the wall that extends from them to the Gate is home to Breathing Resonating Stone Wall - Kochi Castle. These artworks emit light, resonating, and shining brighter.

Sketch Ryoma & Friends　

This park is a place where the historical figures of Kochi meet.Draw and color in the historical figures of Kochi, (Sakamoto Ryoma, Sakamoto Otome, Itagaki Taisuke, Chosokabe Motochika, Yamauchi Katsutoyo, and Chiyo) along with people (boys and girls). Then, see the characters come to life and walk around on a giant screen right in front of you.Touch the people, and they will react with surprise and perform various actions.Touch the historical figures, and they will begin to speak.

About teamLab

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

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 perceptions 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.

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

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Biographical Documents

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

VENUE MAP

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Breathing Resonating Stone Wall – Kochi Castle
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Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives in the Stone Wall – Kochi Castle
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Resisting and Resonating Ovoids and Trees
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Waves of Light of Kochi Castle
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Sketch Ryoma & Friends　
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Resonating Kochi Castle

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Breathing Resonating Stone Wall – Kochi Castle
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Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives in the Stone Wall – Kochi Castle
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Resisting and Resonating Ovoids and Trees
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Waves of Light of Kochi Castle
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Sketch Ryoma & Friends　
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Resonating Kochi Castle

Venue Details

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.

For Media

News

Featured on 女性セブン, Dec 13, 2018

自然とアートを体で感じる

森と湖が舞台のアートプロジェクト「チームラボ森と湖の光の祭」では、光り輝く球体に触れると、次々と色が変化。（Excerpt from the text）

Featured on YOMIURI ONLINE, Nov 22, 2018

光のアート鮮やか　高知城彩る

西日本豪雨で遠のいた観光客を呼び戻そうと、高知市の高知城を色鮮やかな光のアート作品で彩るイベント「チームラボ　高知城　光の祭」の試験点灯が２１日、行われた。イベントは２２日から来年１月６日まで。（Excerpt from the text）

Featured on 高知新聞, Nov 22, 2018

光のアート高知城包む

光のアート高知城包む今夜から「チームラボ」演出世界的に活躍するデジタルアート集団「チームラボ」が22日から夜の高知城で光のイベントを繰り広げる。（Excerpt from the text）

Organizers

Shikoku Kochi Bakumatsu Ishinhaku Executive Committee

Special Sponsors

Sunny Mart IHI DAI-ICHI Consultants

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