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teamLab, 2025-, Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
Even if individual elements are separated in space and time, when a structural order appears among them, the elements transcend space and time and form a single entity. Despite significant changes in shape or size on the surface, or even if all of the elements are replaced, the single existence will be maintained. This spatiotemporal existence is part of the whole, it appears from the whole, and is returned to it. It is a living universe - a biocosmos.Sculptural existence is born in space. It takes form on the ground as a mass and rises from the ground. Existence is born in the air, transcending the very concept of mass, and continues to exist mid-air, maintained in place. The boundaries of these existences are ambiguous, and the glowing spheres that compose them are continuously changing. Even when people fully immerse themselves in this sculpture, its existence remains intact. If broken by people, it naturally restores itself. Even if people try to move or push this floating entity, they cannot do so. Physical human actions cannot move the sculpture. Rather than a solid object, this sculptural entity is created by the order of energy generated by the phenomena of a unique environment. Let us call this existence High Order Sculpture. The artwork is inseparable from the environment and changes along with the environment. It transcends the conventional notions of physical objects—it sustains its existence mid-air, having ambiguous boundaries, and it is able to maintain its shape even when people immerse themselves physically into the sculpture, naturally restoring itself even if the sculpture breaks.A sculpture based on the premise of an open system.
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teamLab, 2020-, Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
This floating, immense sculpture emerges from a sea of bubbles, transcending the very concept of mass. It neither sinks to the ground nor rises completely to the ceiling, but instead drifts in the middle of the space. The contours of its existence are ambiguous—it fragments into smaller pieces, but merges into a larger mass. Even when people fully immerse themselves in this sculpture, its existence remains intact. If broken by people, it naturally restores itself. However, when the sculpture is destroyed beyond what it can repair, it collapses, unable to recover. Even if people try to move or push this floating sculpture, they cannot do so, and if they stir up wind, the sculpture disperses entirely. Physical human actions cannot move the sculpture.Objects such as stones and man-made creations maintain a stable structure on their own. A stone will continue to exist even if placed in a sealed box, isolated from the external world.On the other hand, a vortex created in the ocean disappears instantly when transferred into an enclosed box. In other words, a vortex does not maintain a stable structure independently. A vortex exists within the flow created by its environment formed by water continuously flowing from the outside to the inside and from the inside to the outside, maintained by the vortex’s ordered structure. This flow allows the vortex to shift as the surrounding currents change. Its boundaries are ambiguous. There is no material distinction between the vortex and its surroundings as they are made of water.Rather than a solid object, this sculpture is created by the order of energy generated by the phenomena of a unique environment. Let us call this existence created by the order of energy, a "Higher Order Sculpture." The artwork is inseparable from the environment and changes along with the environment. It transcends the conventional notions of physical objects—it sustains its existence mid-air, having ambiguous boundaries, and it is able to maintain its shape even when people immerse themselves physically into the sculpture, naturally restoring itself even if the sculpture breaks.A sculpture based on the premise of an open system.The only material substances present in this space are water, air, and ordinary soap.By filling the space with bubbles, a distinct environment is created in which an order of energy is born. By doing so, a massive form emerges from this sea of bubbles that floats steadily in mid-air.In modern biology, the definition of life cannot be strictly defined, but everything that is structured upon cells, capable of metabolism, and self-reproduction are labeled living things for convenience. In other words, all living things are composed of cells. All cells are enclosed by a cell membrane constructed of a lipid bilayer, with the hydrophilic part facing outward and the hydrophobic part covered within the layers. Both the inside and outside of the enveloping membrane are liquid. Soap bubbles are similarly enveloped by lipid bilayer membranes, and these membranes are structurally identical to cell membranes. However, contrary to cells, the bilayer of the bubble membrane floats in and encloses air, so the hydrophobic part faces outward, while the hydrophilic part is covered within the layers. In other words, if we consider cells to be pouch-shaped membranes in liquid, then bubbles are pouch-shaped membranes in air. This sculpture is created from substances composed in the same ways as cells, the structuring units of life-forms, and the order of energy created from this environment.The same is true of life. It consumes external matter and energy as food and discharges it, sustaining its ordered structure as the energy dissipates. Life exists within the flow of matter and energy, and its contour, like a vortex, is ambiguous.Perhaps, life is a miraculous phenomenon that emerges in the flow of matter and energy, and its structure is the order of energy created by that flow.
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공중부양 - 평면화하는 적과 청, 모호한 보라색 / Levitation - Flattening Red and Blue & Blurred Violet
teamLab, 2021, Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
생명이란 에너지의 질서이다.마치 생명과 같이, 공간에 에너지의 질서를 창조하였다.구체는 무엇과도 연결되어 있지 않다. 그런데도 구체는 질량의 개념을 초월하여 지면도 천장도 아닌 공중에 멈춰있거나 오르내림을 반복한다. 구체는 사람들이 치면, 날아가서 바닥에 떨어져 굴러간다. 그러나 아무런 방해가 없으면 스스로 상태를 복원하듯 다시 천천히 공중에 떠오른다.그리고 구체는 입체와 평면의 모습을 오간다.생명이란 무엇인가. 예를 들어 바이러스의 경우 생물학에서 생명의 최소 단위인 세포를 갖지 않거나 자가증식하지 않는 것으로 보아, 생물과 무생물의 경계 영역에 존재하는 것으로 여겨진다. 생물과 무생물을 나누는 기준이 무엇인지는 아직까지도 생물학상으로 정의할 수 없다.한편, 우리가 내일도 우리 자신으로써 존재할 수 있는 것은, 형태가 무너져 가는 ‘엔트로피 증가의 법칙’을 위반하고 있다. 즉, 엔트로피(무질서의 정도를 나타내는 물리량)가 극대화로 향한다고 여겨지는 우주에서, 생명이란 그 방향에 반하고 있는 존재이다. 생명은 고전적인 물리 법칙을 어기는 초자연적인 현상이다.1977년에 노벨 화학상을 수상한 화학자·물리학자 일리야 프리고진은, 자연계에는 외부에서 에너지를 들여와 내부에서 엔트로피를 생산하고, 그 엔트로피를 밖으로 배출함으로써 형성되며, 비평형 상태에서 유지되는 모종의 질서 및 구조가 존재함을 발견했다. 에너지(및 물질)를 외부로 산발시켜 엔트로피를 외부에 버리고 내부의 엔트로피를 감소시켜 질서를 만들어 낸다. 생명체는 외부로부터 음식을 통해 에너지를 받아들이고, 배설을 통해 엔트로피를 외부에 버리면서 엔트로피를 유지하고 있다고도 말할 수 있다.생명이란 외부 환경과 이어지는 에너지의 질서일 수 있다.그리고 생명의 존재 그 자체가 물리 법칙에 반하는 초자연 현상이기 때문에공간에 에너지의 질서를 만들었을 때, 이 거대한 흰 덩어리의 조각체는 천천히 생겨나 떠오르며 생명체처럼 스스로를 복원한다. 그리고 마치 물리의 법칙에 반하는 초자연적인 현상처럼 만유인력을 거스르며 구체는 천천히 떠올라 공간 중턱에 머무르거나 공중을 오르내린다.눈앞에서 일어나고 있는 (자연계의 법칙을 뛰어넘는 현상이라는 의미에서의) 초자연현상을 목격할 때에, 인지 그 자체는 변화한다. 그리고 그 인지의 변화가 당신을 “일상과는 다른 상태"로 이끌 것이다.작품에 의한 인지의 변화를 모색한다.
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teamLab, 2025, from the series <span style="font-style: italic">Levitation - Flattening Red and Blue & Blurred Violet</span>, 2021-, Installation, Sound: teamLab
The void that gently rises from the ground levitates in the air is not suspended, nor does it have its own power. Its existence transcends the concept of mass, it levitates in the middle of the air, not on the ground or at the ceiling. At times it rises, and at times it sinks, yet remains floating in the air.At times, it starts to move and sometimes it falls to the ground. However, as if to repair its state, it slowly rises up again and remains levitating in the air.An order of energy is generated at the center of the space by a phenomenon of a unique environment. The order of energy thus creates this sculptural entity. Let us call this existence High Order Sculpture. The artwork is inseparable from the environment and changes along with the environment. It transcends the conventional notions of physical objects—it sustains its existence mid-air, and naturally restores itself.A sculpture based on the premise of an open system.
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teamLab, 2025, Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
The two existences forming a pair that remain in the air are not suspended by anything, nor do they have their own power. Their existence transcends the concept of mass; they levitate in the middle of the air, neither on the ground nor at the ceiling. At times they rise, and at times they sink, yet they remain floating in the air.An order of energy is generated in the space by a phenomenon of a unique environment. The order of energy thus creates these sculptural entities. Let us call this existence High Order Sculpture. The artwork is inseparable from the environment and changes along with the environment. It transcends the conventional notions of physical objects—it sustains its existence mid-air, and naturally restores itself.A sculpture based on the premise of an open system.
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