The pre-booking admission arrangement originally required for part of the "teamLab: Continuous" exhibition (the lawn area in Tamar Park) will be scrapped from May 8 (Wednesday) and visitors can visit the exhibition during the opening hours without prior registration.
Curatorial Concept
The Hong Kong waterfront is a beloved public space that captures the hearts of both locals and tourists alike. It offers a mesmerising blend of vibrant cityscape and tranquil beauty of the Victoria Harbour. To celebrate the multifaceted nature of Hong Kong’s waterfront and foster an enjoyable environment for creative collaboration, the Art Promotion Office under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department has invited the renowned international art collective, teamLab, to present an extraordinary outdoor art exhibition from 25 March to 8 June 2024. The exhibition will transform Tamar Park, Central and Western District Promenade (Central Section) and Victoria Harbour into captivating realms of artistic wonder.
teamLab is famous for their enchanting light installations, seamlessly merging natural landscapes with digital technology and creating immersive sensory experiences that leave audiences awestruck. “teamLab: Continuous” epitomises their artistic philosophy: borderless continuity. The exhibition showcases around several hundred brightly-coloured ovoids in an interactive art installation, named Resonating Life which Continues to Stand at impressive heights. Additionally, visitors will encounter the installation Resonating Trees that brings trees to life through waves of light that spread from the ovoids. These alluring exhibits extend across public waterfront, blurring the boundaries between land and sea. A playground of interactive imagination and sensory wonder comes to life amidst the bustling cityscape. When visitors gently push the ovoids a symphony of colours and sounds harmoniously unfolds, radiating to adjacent exhibits and spreading out into the distance. The lively dots of light ripple like waves at night, mirroring the dazzling nightscape that adorns the Victoria Harbour.
“teamLab: Continuous” explores a central tenet of teamLab’s artistic philosophy: that to be alive is to be inseparable from the world, to be continuous with the world, and that the world exists in a continuity. With its flickering rhythm like breathing, the flowing light infuses the artworks with a vibrant life force. Light conveys the symbiotic relationship between people, the city and art, as well as the infinite connections and continuities that abound. Each visitor is invited to embark on a personal journey of exploration and communication, collectively creating a unique tapestry of light and wonder within the shared space. This immersive experience allows people to genuinely appreciate one another’s positive presence and interaction, transforming unexpected encounters into ephemeral moments of radiant splendour and infinite transformation.
Special Thanks:
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Tokyo)
Resonating Life which Continues to Stand teamLab, 2014, Interactive Digitized Nature, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
The resonating ovoids continue to stand wherever they are. The ovoids continue to stand even if they are pushed over by waves, blown by the wind, or pushed by people. When an ovoid is pushed over, it rises back up on its own and shines brightly as it produces a tone. The light and tone continue to resonate out to other ovoids and trees nearby.
If a wave of light comes from afar, it signifies the presence of people, waves, or wind there. People gain a heightened sense of awareness of the existence of other people in the same space and the environment.
When it is quiet and the wind is not blowing and the people nearby are not interacting with the ovoids, their lights begin to flicker slowly.
Resonating Trees teamLab, 2014, Interactive Digitized Nature, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
The light of the trees in this artwork responds to the continuous light from the artwork Resonating Life which Continues to Stand, producing a tone and changing colour. That light and tone then spread continuously, one by one, to the surrounding trees.
If a wave of light comes from afar, it signifies the presence of people, waves, or wind there. People gain a heightened sense of awareness of the existence of other people in the same space and the environment.
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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 exhibitions have been held worldwide, including in cities such as New York, London, and Paris. teamLab’s works are also in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and other art institutions around the world.