EXHIBITION
teamLab:
CONTINU 18
ASIAN ART MUSEUM
SUMMER 2021
AKIKO YAMAZAKI AND JERRY YANG PAVILION
As you step into the Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Pavilion
in the forest near his home in Tokushima. He remembers being
for the first time, you will find yourself immersed in a complete
completely absorbed in the atmosphere of the surrounding trees,
environment of light and color, with sumptuous, lifelike images of
feeling he was a part of the landscape instead of just an observer.
crows and sunflowers, butterflies and fish streaming all around
That memory drives the work of teamLab, which seeks to create
you, propelling you to wander, to pause, to marvel. The physical
immersive experiences through interactive, interconnected
reality of the gallery space seems to dissolve as you fully enter the
digital installations that dissolve boundaries between artwork
world of the installation. This is teamLab: Continuity.
and viewer, inside and outside, and art and technology. “We are
Toshiyuki Inoko, founder of the Tokyo-based art collective teamLab, often speaks of a profound experience he had as a child
most interested in blurring the border between the self and the world,” Inoko says.
