A museum by the globally acclaimed digital art collective teamLab opens | ART
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June 29, 2018

A museum by the globally acclaimed digital art collective teamLab opens | ART


ART | A Digital Art Museum Unlike Any Other in the World


Experience it in a vast, 10,000-square-meter space.


Borderless Digital Art: Epson teamLab
Borderless Opens in Odaiba, Tokyo


Mori Building Digital Art Museum: Epson teamLab Borderless, jointly operated by the digital art collective teamLab and Mori Building, has opened in Odaiba, Tokyo.

Text by OZAKI Sayaka




Experience Approximately 60 Artworks, Including World Premiere Pieces from teamLab


Mori Building Digital Art Museum: Epson teamLab Borderless, jointly operated by the digital art collective teamLab and Mori Building, has opened in Odaiba, Tokyo.

Under the concept of "Borderless," the artworks have no boundaries with other works; they move out of rooms, travel through corridors, interact with other works, and at times, even merge with them.

There are also no boundaries between the artworks and the viewers. Visitors immerse themselves in the world of the art, and eventually, the boundaries between themselves and others become continuous. Visitors can enjoy an unprecedented museum experience, exploring with their own bodies and creating new experiences together with others.

Five distinct worlds are composed within the vast 10,000-square-meter space, featuring approximately 60 artworks, including world premiere pieces. In the "Borderless World," visitors can explore new relationships with others and the world by immersing their bodies in artworks that change based on people's presence.

In "teamLab Athletics: Forest of Resonating Lamps," visitors can engage in a new "creative physical space" that cultivates spatial awareness, based on the concept of "perceiving the world through the body and thinking about the world in three dimensions." It allows for full-body immersion in an interactive world within a complex, three-dimensional space.

In "Learn! Future Park," with its concept of "collaborative creativity, co-creation," there are also educational projects such as "Sketch Aquarium" and "Sliding through the Fruit Field." It's a "park" where children can learn while enjoying the freedom to create the world together with others.

In "The Crystal World," when a person stands still near a lamp for a while, the nearest lamp glows intensely and emits a sound. The light from that lamp then propagates to the two nearest lamps. The light from the lamps, responding to people's presence, splits into two, forming a single line of light that passes through all the lamps exactly once, finally meeting at the initial lamp where it began.

The final area is "EN TEA HOUSE." In the work titled "Flowers Bloom in the Infinite Universe Inside a Tiny Rock," beautiful flowers are projected onto a teacup when a bowl of tea is prepared, and the flowers unfold infinitely as you savor the tea. It is a truly "Borderless" digital art space that transcends the boundaries between viewer and artwork, and between oneself and others.

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Mori Building Digital Art Museum: Epson teamLab Borderless


Address | 1-3-8 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo (Odaiba Palette Town)
Opening Hours | Mon-Thu 11:00–19:00 (21:00), Fri & day before holiday 11:00–21:00 (22:00), Sat 10:00–21:00 (22:00), Sun & holiday 10:00–19:00 (20:00)
*Last admission is one hour before closing.
*Times in parentheses are special extended hours until Friday, August 31, 2018.
*Opening hours vary by season. Please check the website for details.
Closed | 2nd and 4th Tuesday




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https://borderless.teamlab.art/jp/