The artwork collective TeamLab will host an immersive digital artwork exhibition titled “TeamLab: Digitized Kanazawa Castle” on the historic Kanazawa Castle Park in Ishikawa, Japan from September 30 to November 26, 2023.
Interactive Art Installations Merge Past and Present
The exhibition options three interactive artwork installations that remodel the buildings, stone partitions and bushes of the fortress grounds into an illuminated artwork house utilizing superior digital expertise.
Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives
The first set up titled “Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives” initiatives photographs of flowers blooming and forming into animals like tigers and mammoths in opposition to the fortress’s stone partitions. The flower animals work together with one another and stroll alongside the partitions.
Enso
In the second set up “Enso”, the minimalist Zen Buddhist circle symbolizing enlightenment is infinitely drawn on the traditional stone partitions utilizing calligraphy in mild. As the three-dimensional stroke rotates, the circle form comes out and in of view.
Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life
The third spotlight is an interactive ovoid sculpture set up “Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life”, the place the standing egg-shaped ovoids lit in colours react to wind and human contact by altering colours and emitting distinctive sounds. This creates a symphony as colours resonate by means of the forest of ovoids.
Blending Art, Nature and Technology
The exhibition is a part of teamLab’s “Digitized City” undertaking which makes use of digital expertise to show metropolis areas into interactive artwork with out altering the landscapes.
At Kanazawa Castle Park, teamLab’s installations mix artwork, nature and expertise because the artworks change with wind, rain and human interactions. The interaction creates a way of continuity between folks, nature and the previous throughout the grounds of the over 450-year-old fortress.
Key Details
- Dates: September 30 – November 26, 2023
- Timings: 6 pm to 9:30 pm each day (final entry at 8:45 pm)
- Venue: Kanazawa Castle Park, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
- Tickets: Yet to open, separate costs for weekdays and weekends/holidays. Weekday tickets ¥1600 for adults, ¥800 for college students.
- Organizers: Agency for Cultural Affairs, Ishikawa Prefectural Government, Ishikawa National Cultural Festival Executive Committee
The digitally reimagined Kanazawa Castle goals to be an illuminating expertise for each native and worldwide guests by means of TeamLab’s immersive installations. The juxtaposition of forward-looking digital artwork in opposition to a traditionally vital panorama creates a singular strategy to expertise the heritage website.